Carl Duisberg Society
The Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft eV (CDG) is a non-profit association for the promotion of international vocational training and personnel development based in Bonn . The company cooperates closely with the state development cooperation of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).
history
The company was founded in 1949 by the Federal Republic of Germany and the federal states . The initial aim was to qualify young scientists professionally and personally for international activities and collaborations. The programs are aimed at Germans for tasks and assignments abroad as well as foreigners with such work in Germany. After a few years of existence, these activities were generally expanded to include domestic and foreign specialists and managers. One of the focal points of today's work developed: promoting people from developing and emerging countries.
The CDG traces its name back to the German national chemical entrepreneur and patron Carl Duisberg . In the 1920s, he provided significant impetus for international qualification, which was still little promoted at the time. As a researcher and entrepreneur, Duisberg himself played a leading role in the development and testing of chemical warfare agents for the First World War as part of the “Nernst-Duisberg Commission”. In the 1920s, mostly chemists and engineers who had gained practical and scientific experience abroad as working students in the USA founded an association they called the Carl Duisberg Society. This was revived after the war with extended tasks.
In 2002, the CDG was merged with the DSE to form International Further Education and Development gGmbH (InWEnt). Many areas of the CDG were transferred to InWEnt, including the transatlantic programs, in which well over 1,000 young graduates and professionals, Germans and Americans, take part every year. By that time, around 300,000 people had taken part in CDG programs. Before the merger, the budget was around 100 million euros, raised by around 750 donors.
Today the CDG continues to work as an association with a much smaller budget.
job
The association promotes the internationality of the economy and sees itself as a strategic partner of the German and foreign economy. It wants to promote global education and cooperation with industrialized and developing countries in a joint initiative by business and the federal and state governments.
The focus today is:
- international training for sustainable development (ESD)
- imparting international experience for specialists and executives and development-related domestic activities
- participation in the GIZ Economic Advisory Board and Board of Trustees
The CDG has also been awarding the CDG Entrepreneur Award since 2013.