diff --git a/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/BackgoundWorkerObjective.php b/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/BackgoundWorkerObjective.php
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+++ b/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/BackgoundWorkerObjective.php
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * This file is part of ILIAS, a powerful learning management system
+ * published by ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
+ *
+ * ILIAS is licensed with the GPL-3.0,
+ * see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
+ * You should have received a copy of said license along with the
+ * source code, too.
+ *
+ * If this is not the case or you just want to try ILIAS, you'll find
+ * us at:
+ * https://www.ilias.de
+ * https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning
+ *
+ *********************************************************************/
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace ILIAS\BackgroundTasks\Setup;
+
+use ilUtil;
+use ilSetting;
+use Throwable;
+use SoapClient;
+use ilProxySettings;
+use ilCurlConnection;
+use RuntimeException;
+use ILIAS\DI\Container;
+use ILIAS\Setup\Objective;
+use ILIAS\Setup\Environment;
+use ilCurlConnectionException;
+use ILIAS\Setup\CLI\IOWrapper;
+use ilIniFilesPopulatedObjective;
+use ilDatabaseInitializedObjective;
+use ilSettingsFactoryExistsObjective;
+use ILIAS\Setup\Objective\ClientIdReadObjective;
+use ILIAS\Setup\Objective\AdminConfirmedObjective;
+use ilBackgroundTasksSetupConfig;
+
+class BackgoundWorkerObjective extends AdminConfirmedObjective
+{
+    private ?IOWrapper $io = null;
+    private ?Container $old_DIC = null;
+    private ?ilSetting $old_settings = null;
+
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+        parent::__construct(
+            "This will start a Background-Worker\n" .
+            'Continue?'
+        );
+    }
+
+    public function getHash(): string
+    {
+        return hash('sha256', self::class);
+    }
+
+    public function getLabel(): string
+    {
+        return 'Start a Background-Worker';
+    }
+
+    public function isNotable(): bool
+    {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return Objective[]
+     */
+    public function getPreconditions(Environment $environment): array
+    {
+        return [
+            new ClientIdReadObjective(),
+            new ilIniFilesPopulatedObjective(),
+            new ilDatabaseInitializedObjective(),
+            new ilSettingsFactoryExistsObjective()
+        ];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @inheritDoc
+     */
+    public function isApplicable(Environment $environment): bool
+    {
+        $ini = $environment->getResource(Environment::RESOURCE_ILIAS_INI);
+
+        if (!$ini->groupExists('background_tasks')) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return $ini->readVariable('background_tasks', 'concurrency') === ilBackgroundTasksSetupConfig::TYPE_ASYNCHRONOUS;
+    }
+
+    public function achieve(Environment $environment): Environment
+    {
+        $environment = parent::achieve($environment);
+        $io = $environment->getResource(Environment::RESOURCE_ADMIN_INTERACTION);
+        $settings_factory = $environment->getResource(Environment::RESOURCE_SETTINGS_FACTORY);
+        $ini = $environment->getResource(Environment::RESOURCE_ILIAS_INI);
+
+        if ($io instanceof IOWrapper) {
+            $this->io = $io;
+        }
+
+        $settings = $settings_factory->settingsFor('common');
+
+        try {
+            $internal_path = $settings->get('soap_internal_wsdl_path');
+            if ($internal_path) {
+                $uri = (new \ILIAS\Data\URI($internal_path));
+                parse_str($uri->getQuery() ?? '', $query);
+                $uri = (string) (isset($query['wsdl']) ?
+                    $uri :
+                    $uri->withQuery(http_build_query(array_merge($query, ['wsdl' => '']))));
+            } elseif (trim($settings->get('soap_wsdl_path', '')) !== '') {
+                $uri = $settings->get('soap_wsdl_path', '');
+            } else {
+                $uri = ilUtil::_getHttpPath() . '/public/soap/server.php?wsdl';
+            }
+            $this->inform('Trying to call webserver by using WSDL: ' . $uri);
+            $soap_client = new SoapClient($uri, ['exceptions' => true, 'trace' => true, 'connection_timeout' => 10]);
+            $this->inform('SOAP client initialized');
+
+            $client_id = defined('CLIENT_ID') ? CLIENT_ID : $environment->getResource(Environment::RESOURCE_CLIENT_ID);
+            if ($client_id === null) {
+                throw new RuntimeException('CLIENT_ID is not defined.');
+            }
+
+            $url = $ini->readVariable('server', 'http_path');
+            $session_url = rtrim($url, '/') . '/goto.php';
+            $curl = $this->getCurlConnection($settings, $session_url);
+            $result = $curl->exec();
+            $header_array = $curl->getResponseHeaderArray();
+            $session_id = null;
+            if (isset($header_array['set-cookie'])) {
+                $set_cookie = $header_array['set-cookie'];
+                $cookies = is_array($set_cookie) ? $set_cookie : [$set_cookie];
+                foreach ($cookies as $cookie) {
+                    if (preg_match('/PHPSESSID=([^;]+)/i', $cookie, $matches)) {
+                        $session_id = $matches[1];
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if ($session_id === null) {
+                throw new RuntimeException('Could not extract session ID from server response.');
+            }
+
+            if (!$result) {
+                throw new RuntimeException('Could not retrieve session ID from server.');
+            }
+
+            $this->inform('Obtained session ID: ' . substr($session_id, 0, 40));
+            $session_string = $session_id ? ($session_id . '::' . $client_id) : ('::' . $client_id);
+            $this->inform('Calling startBackgroundTaskWorker with session: ' . ($session_id ? substr($session_id, 0, 40) : 'empty') . ', client: ' . $client_id);
+
+            $result = $soap_client->__call('startBackgroundTaskWorker', [
+                $session_string,
+            ]);
+            if ($result) {
+                $this->inform('Calling webserver successful.');
+            } else {
+                throw new RuntimeException('Calling webserver failed.');
+            }
+        } catch (Throwable $t) {
+            $this->error($t->getMessage());
+            $this->error('Calling webserver failed');
+            $this->error('Stack trace: ' . $t->getTraceAsString());
+        }
+
+        return $environment;
+    }
+
+    private function inform(string $text, bool $force = false): void
+    {
+        if ($this->io === null || (!$force && !$this->io->isVerbose())) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $this->io->inform($text);
+    }
+
+    private function error(string $text): void
+    {
+        if ($this->io === null) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $this->io->error($text);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @throws ilCurlConnectionException
+     */
+    private function getCurlConnection(ilSetting $settings, string $url): ilCurlConnection
+    {
+        $curl = new ilCurlConnection(
+            $url,
+            new ilProxySettings($settings)
+        );
+        $curl->init();
+        $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
+        $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
+        $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+        $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+        $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 1);
+
+        return $curl;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/class.ilBackgroundTasksSetupAgent.php b/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/class.ilBackgroundTasksSetupAgent.php
index 2953229e2615..e0fb869c25f7 100755
--- a/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/class.ilBackgroundTasksSetupAgent.php
+++ b/components/ILIAS/BackgroundTasks_/classes/Setup/class.ilBackgroundTasksSetupAgent.php
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 use ILIAS\Refinery;
 use ILIAS\Data;
 use ILIAS\UI;
+use ILIAS\BackgroundTasks\Setup\BackgoundWorkerObjective;
 
 class ilBackgroundTasksSetupAgent implements Setup\Agent
 {
@@ -94,6 +95,16 @@ public function getStatusObjective(Setup\Metrics\Storage $storage): Setup\Object
         );
     }
 
+    public function getNamedObjectives(?Setup\Config $config = null): array
+    {
+        return [
+            'startBackgroundWorker' => new Setup\ObjectiveConstructor(
+                'Start Worker',
+                static fn(): Setup\Objective => new BackgoundWorkerObjective()
+            )
+        ];
+    }
+
     /**
      * @inheritDoc
      */