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The author studies the notion of the right Kan extension for internal functors in the category of groups \({\mathcal G}r\), which coincides here with the notion of a left Kan extension. Exploiting the equivalence between the category \(\text{Cat}{\mathcal G}r\) of internal categories in \({\mathcal G}r\) and the category \(X \text{Mod} ({\mathcal G}r)\) of crossed modules in \({\mathcal G}r\), she attacks the problem of finding necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of internal Kan extensions by following an algebraic approach, and by using methods of homological algebra. There is also a topological approach to the question which is not treated and will be the subject of a forthcoming paper. The author points out that another approach which suggests itself, namely treating internal categories in \({\mathcal G}r\) as groupoids, did not give the desired results.