Demo­cratic culture

#netzrevolte, Foundation for Learning through Civic Engagement

The #netzrevolte project aims to combine democratic with digital education in schools, and strengthen democratic action capacities and powers of judgment among children and young people on the net.
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Tobias Frindt
director
Maren Düsberg
Managing Director RAA Saxony
Isidora Randjelović
Managing director
Prof. Dr. Vassilis Tsianos
Chairman
Sandra Zentner
Managing Director

Saxon Prize for Democracy

The Saxon Prize for Democracy is an accolade bestowed on initiatives that campaign against right-wing violence, for human rights, and for promoting a democratic civil society in Saxony.
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Jasna Jašarević
Managing Director

Digital Awareness

In its "Digital Awareness" project, the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Jena (IDZ) monitors German-language debates with a broad political impact in digital space. It uses the results to strengthen civil-societal organizations campaigning for diversity, equality and the rule of law.
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Dr. Eva Sturm
Association chairwoman
Social inclusion
Alexander Diepold
Managing Director
Jürgen Ripplinger
Managing Director
Anika Noack
Director Pedagogic Workshop

Learning-Practice Workshop

The Learning-Practice Workshop prepares young people with a refugee background for (re-)entering the workplace world, even if they cannot as yet meet the formal requirements of school and vocational training options. The particular focus here is on young adult refugees.
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Robert Kusche
Managing Director
Christoph Engelbrecht

School for Inclusion, MIOS

The MIOS school network cooperates with numerous schools in Tuzla (BiH), so as to to ensure that they develop an inclusive assistance culture and in particular enable socio-economically disadvantaged children and young people to be given adequate support.
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Zaklina Durmis
Director
Katharina Lezius
Managing Director

Roma school mediation Dortmund

The goal of the cooperation agreement between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund City Council and the Freudenberg Foundation is to trial the deployment of Roma school mediators in Dortmund’s northern district, to progress this approach and anchor it in the long term.
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Who we are
The Freudenberg Foundation was set up in 1984 by partners of the Freudenberg & Co. KG company as an independent, civil-societal organization tasked with fostering education and peaceful co-existence.

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