Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft

The Donors' Association for German Science is a conceptual work organization which has made it as a registered association mission is to identify and solve structural problems in science and higher education. Its programs and initiatives to assist in resolving the problems. In this process, the Donors' Association assumes in particular the role of idea generator and supports appropriate solutions. Business and academia together with the Donors' Association. The Donors' Association mediates and controls the connection of these two areas. In addition, the Donors' Association is the trustee for currently around 400 mostly science -promoting foundations.

The Donors' Association was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Essen and Berlin. President Since 2013 Andreas Barner. He follows the Berlin entrepreneur Arend Oetker, who has held the post since 1998. Since February 2005, Andreas Schlüter has served as Secretary General of the Donors' Association for German Science. The Donors' Association is a nonprofit organization that is funded by the donations of its approximately 3,000 members; its major sponsors include a number of large corporations such as the German Bank, Daimler and Bosch, but also SMEs and individuals. 2006 invested Stifterverband 20 million euros in its programs, of which EUR 9.7 million in endowed chairs at universities and colleges. The supervised by him foundations supported in particular science, with a total of 104 million euros.

Work focuses on

  • Improving the performance of the science system
  • The promotion of higher education
  • The improvement of national and international cooperation in the field of science
  • The promotion of young academics
  • The improvement of the cooperation between science, politics, economy and society
  • The promotion of the general course of Sciences.

Partner

The partners of the Donors' Association are mainly the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Society, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD ), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Study Foundation of the German people.

Carrier

Furthermore, the Donors' Association support:

  • Science statistics gGmbH ( CEO: Gero Stenke, Andreas Kladroba )
  • The Science Center Bonn
  • The DSZ - German Foundation Center, a consulting, research and documentation center to donation questions

Within their respective purposes, managed by the Association of Foundations grant, inter alia, Project funds, scholarships, printing and travel grants.

Prices

In close cooperation with various German research organizations have pushed the Donors' Association will award prizes for particularly deserving deemed successful research. Together with the German Research Foundation will award the Donors' Association of the Communicator Award for the best presentation of science to the public, and the " Alexander Böhlig Award " for outstanding promotions and Habilitation from the field of the Christian East and the ancient Christian history of the eastern half of the empire. With the Helmholtz Association of Erwin Schrödinger Prize for Interdisciplinary Research is awarded annually since 1999. The Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research, the Max Planck Society and the Leibniz Association each have their own corresponding " Award of the Donors ' Association for German Science ," will decide independently its winners selection the internal committees of scientific societies. To outsiders, who learned of the taking place award only from the media, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish which scientific community is just meant because the journalists do not specify this always. Together with the German Rectors' Conference is awarded for excellent higher education since 2006, the Ars Legendi price. In addition, 2009 saw the competition excellent teaching.

Award "City of Science "

To motivate cities and urban regions to more power and funding in the area of ​​science, calls the Donors' Association since 2004, the price City of Science. It highlights in particular regions where science to economy and culture is attached. An important role plays that science is perceived by the public.

The award received so far:

Initiative (disambiguation) Robert Bosch GmbH Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft German Rectors' Conference Deutsches Museum Bonn Integrated Authority File
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