In the following text we present selected results of the Second Engagement Report. The report is devoted to the topic of “Demographic Change and Civic Engagement: Civic Engagement and its Contribution to Local Development”. In accordance with the remit of the report, the Second Engagement Report has a particular focus on the degree of importance accruing to the manifold types of civic participation – from classic forms of honorary office to political participation, from helping out in the neighbourhood to working on behalf of people who have fled their countries of origin – and what impact they have on efforts to cope with demographic change in towns and rural areas.