Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations ( FRFG ), headquartered in Stuttgart is a practical and politically independent foundation under civil law, which sees itself as representing the interests of moving up generations and aims to promote the scientific, political and social discourse on intergenerational justice. It was founded in 1997 by a group of students into life and, according to Business Week " the most famous extra-parliamentary think tank in terms of intergenerational equity ".
Organs
The foundation is headed by its own representation of the recent foundation boards in Germany. The Board is an honorary capacity. Chairman of the Board since 2008 Adrian Schell. Since 2009 the author Wolfgang Gründinger is spokesman for the foundation. The Board is supported by a group of young "ambassadors". Ambassador and Board are volunteers.
The Foundation's work is accompanied by a Board of Trustees ..
The Scientific Advisory Board is busy with a number of prominent scholars, such as Meinhard Miegel, Udo Simonis, Franz Josef Radermacher, Bernd Raffelhüschen and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
The Foundation is financially independent from donations from the business community and is funded from project-related funding by third foundations and private donations of association.
Foundation work
The Foundation aims to achieve a broad discourse on intergenerational justice and sustainability and provides impetus through interviews, events, author of articles in professional journals. In recent years, she published position papers on pensions, public debt, labor market and children suffrage. It publishes the scientific journal " Intergenerational Justice Review".
The Foundation was involved in that 100 mostly young member of parliament who introduced a bill to anchoring of intergenerational equity in the Basic Law on 10 November 2006, the law was not adopted.
The Foundation has awarded since 2002 every two years the 10,000 euro Intergenerational Justice Award for essays on topics wissenenschaftliche of intergenerational equity. Since 2007, the FRFG writes from the doped also with 10,000 euros Demography Prize for young scientists.
Periodically, congresses and symposia are organized. In May 2000, the Foundation was awarded the " Theodor -Heuss Medal". In November 2001 she was awarded the Public Service Medal of the city of Oberursel. In 2005 she received a Foundation Award of the State of Hesse. On 17 May 2011, the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations was awarded by the European Commission for the implementation of an outstanding project in the framework of the European Voluntary Service.
Positions
Suffrage
The Foundation calls for a modified form of the children's right to vote, according to which every citizen should be entitled to vote, irrespective of any age, as soon as he manifests a corresponding will to the competent body. In November 2013, it put together with eleven adolescents aged 9 to 17 years of age Wahlprüfausschuss the Bundestag opposition to the federal election a. The aim was to explain the Bundestag election invalid, because children and young people were excluded from the right to vote.
Pension
In the discussion about the pension, the Foundation has developed the " sharing solution," according to which the pension recipient and the dues-paying generation should share the demographic loads itself. The solution division provides that with an increase in pension contributions, the pension increases to the same extent are damped. In addition, it calls for, inter alia, a correction of the Riester factor and the development of the public pension system to a national insurance policy.
Public debt
The foundation was already early proponents of the debt brake. , But is critical in terms of their practical implementation. The foundation also calls for a future solo in the form of a levy on large private fortune to finance child care and education, and support the Alliance Umfairteilen.
Labor market
The Foundation opposes age discrimination in the labor market. It calls, among other things, age as a criterion for the social criteria for dismissal protection to streichenund rejects pay cuts for young officers. Instead, all generations should be treated equally.
Ecology
According to the Foundation nuclear power is incompatible with the principle of sustainability. They therefore advocated a speedy and consistent energy transition towards full renewable energy supply. The costs should the present generation take up. It also calls for an intensification of the national objective of environmental protection in Article 20a of the Basic Law, to bind the political competition to specific ecological guidelines.
Analysis of the coalition agreement in 2013
The Foundation criticized the coalition agreement in 2013 between the CDU / CSU and SPD as a non -generational justice. In the coalition agreement can be so short analysis from perspective of young, clear deficits in recognizing Institutional reforms, pensions, environment, public finance and the labor market. Representative of the Foundation discussed their criticism at the invitation with government spokesman Steffen Seibert.