Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin

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Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin
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Legal form: Foundation under civil law
Purpose: Education and upbringing as well as international understanding
Chair: Jürgen Petzinger

Stefan Sander

Consist: since 2001
Founder: Incontri Europei European Cultural Meetings GmbH
Seat: Berlin
Website: Foundation website

The Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin is a non-profit foundation established in 2001 by Incontri Europei - Europäische Kulturbegegegen GmbH on the basis of a declaration of intent by the then Federal Minister of Finance Hans Eichel and the former President of the Province of Bologna , Vittorio Prodi , based in Berlin in August 2001 was established. The foundation is a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations, as well as in the Art and Culture Working Group and in the Environment Working Group of the Federal Association.

Funding profile

The foundation has given itself a funding profile that is geared towards implementing the European idea. The foundation supports projects in the field of school and education in the sense of European integration.

The funding areas are:

  • school and education
  • Understanding of regional areas in Europe outside the metropolitan areas as living spaces for rural modernity
  • Lifelong learning - Learning & Living Languages
  • Environmental communication - European Gardeners : Learning initiative mainly for the school and preschool sector (topic-related, interactive)
  • Partner for Europe initiative - cluster projects Regions help regions : Activities of selected European regions inside and outside the European Union

Above all, the foundation develops its own initiatives to implement the goals set in the funding areas. This primarily includes the so-called nono project with Claudio Abbado as a school project for educational institutions in European regions. As a further school project, the foundation worked with an editorial team from IncontriEuropei on the basis of the original text of Goethe's Faust Part I and II for schools a Faust project in German (title: The colors of chess ) and in French (title: Le Cahiers de Perséphone ) .

Bodies

Board of Trustees

Former members of the Board of Trustees:

Advisory Board

  • Stephan Krüger, management consultant in Berlin
  • Christoph Mückeley, Enterprise Architect in Berlin
  • Hans Rombach, film producer in Berlin

Former members of the advisory board:

  • Volker Assel, Berlin (judge at the finance court Berlin a. D.)
  • Hans-Georg Meier, Berlin (lawyer)

Board

  • Jürgen Petzinger, lawyer and journalist, Berlin (deceased in 2018)
  • Stefan Sander, business IT specialist, Berlin

The nonoproject

Logo nonoproject

The basis for the nonoproject are farewell letters that resistance fighters wrote before their execution during World War II. These letters were published in 1954 in an anthology with a foreword by Thomas Mann under the title Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea - Last Letters to Death Convicts from the European Resistance .

The Italian composer Luigi Nono selected ten farewell letters from young women and men who had fought in the European resistance - as the textual basis of his work Il canto sospeso (floating song). The themes of the Canto sospeso are freedom, human rights, tolerance and responsibility.

In the mid-1990s, IncontriEuropei developed a DVD and didactic materials to enable access to composition in the subjects of music, German and history.

The Faust project

The target for the Faust project was the creation of a text that allows schools and facilitates the study of Goethe's Faust I and II, but at the same time enables internal performances in the format of a chamber play. A total of 21 text passages were selected: from Faust I and II. The team of authors agreed on the principle of exactly mirroring the order of the sequences and telling the story of Goethe's Faust from the end. The principle was to arrange the selected parts from Goethe's text in a reverse order and to strictly adhere to this reversal, i.e. not to jump, not to use Goethe's text as a quarry and not to depict it arbitrarily in the form of a newly formed collage. As a five-person piece (Faust, Mephisto, Margarete, Marthe, Valentin), the upturned Faust is a chamber play that can be performed in schools in one and a half hours without a break - including scenic.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Incontri Europei
  2. ↑ Art and Culture Working Group
  3. ↑ Environment Working Group
  4. ↑ Jean-Claude Juncker has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin Foundation since September 30, 2012 and President of the European Commission since November 1, 2014. With the consent of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, Jean-Claude Juncker remains a member of the Board of Trustees at his request, although his formal active rights on the Foundation's Board of Trustees are suspended for the time as President of the European Commission. On June 1, 2017, at the request of Hans Eichel, Jean-Claude Juncker took over the patronage of the foundation's nono project, which Frank-Walter Steinmeier had held until his election as Federal President in February 2017.

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