Innogy Foundation for Energy and Society
| Innogy Foundation for Energy and Society (Innogy Foundation) |
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| Legal form: | gGmbH |
| Purpose: | Promotion of social and cultural projects related to the energy transition |
| Chair: | Frank-Detlef Drake, Reinhard Hüttl , Heike Kahl, Jürgen Kluge , Hildegard Müller, Filip Thon, Frank Weigand, Bernd J. Wieczorek |
| Managing directors: | Stephan Muschick, Patrick Meinhard |
| Consist: | since 1998 |
| Founder: | Innogy SE |
| Foundation capital: | 60 million euros (2013) |
| Seat: | eat |
| Website: | innogy-stiftung.com |
The Innogy Foundation for Energy and Society (spelling: innogy Foundation for Energy and Society ), formerly RWE Foundation for Energy and Society, is a German company in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH . It emerged from the RWE Foundation in 2016 and is now part of Innogy SE , a subsidiary of the German energy supplier RWE. The Innogy Foundation deals with social and cultural issues related to the energy transition.
The company originally emerged from the RWE Youth Foundation. This was founded in 1998 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of RWE AG. After the reallocation to the RWE Foundation in 2009, the focus was on promoting social projects, art projects and educational projects. Although these projects should have a content-related reference to energy, this was often purely metaphorical or symbolic.
aims
The foundation wants to make a contribution to the European energy transition. To this end, she has defined three core areas of her work: energy and education, energy and culture, and energy and social innovation. The foundation is aimed at civil society, business, culture, education and science.
activities
Since 2010, the foundation has been promoting young artists with the Visit program who artistically deal with questions about the energy transition in their work. The artists develop their artistic work in six months at the German or international locations of RWE and Innogy .
In 2015, the Innogy Foundation and the Center for International Light Art Unna launched the International Light Art Award (ILAA) competition . The occasion was the UNESCO International Year of Light . On January 22nd, 2015, the prize was awarded in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele to the artists Martin Hesselmeier and Andreas Muxel for their installation The weight of light . The winner of the International Light Art Award 2017 was the Japanese artist Satoru Tamura with the light installation “Point of Contact for Unna”. At the ILAA 2019, Jacqueline Hen, a master class student at the Berlin University of the Arts , won with her work "Light High".
On May 21, 2015, the foundation announced that it would support the "Energieavantgarde Anhalt" project with a total amount of 1.5 million euros. In the project the potentials and limits of a regional energy system are tested. According to the project initiators, the Anhalt region will become a real laboratory for the energy transition. The collaboration with the foundation is initially planned for three years.
Another project that the foundation supports is called “Netzausbau macht Schule”. The Deutsche Gesellschaft eV developed the simulation game in which students slip into the roles of chancellors, ministers, association members and economic actors and discuss so-called smart grids . In spring 2018, the students in Berlin should present their results.
The literature festival Lit.RUHR took place in the Ruhr area in October 2017. The Innogy Foundation appeared here as a sponsor with a view to the topic of energy education.
The foundation supports other projects such as “Refugee's Kitchen”, “Pylonia” and the “Academy for Energy and Acceptance” and is co-founder of the Energiewende think tank dynamis together with the 100% renewable foundation and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies .
partner
At the project level, the foundation works together with the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, the Foundation of German Business and the European Youth Parliament .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Competent and independent: our advisory board. innogy Foundation, accessed on August 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Low interest rates: RWE lets the foundation consume capital. Focus Money Online, accessed April 14, 2015 .
- ↑ companies rwe.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ innogy Foundation innogy-stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ innogy Foundation innogy-stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ New energy for our society innogy-stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Shaping the energy system of the future innogy-stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ VISIT Artist-in-Residence program of the Innogy Foundation visit.innogy-Stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel (January 23, 2015). The unbearable lightness of light.
- ↑ Japanese artist Tamura wins International Light Art Award monopol Magazin on April 24, 2017, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Jacqueline Hen, winner of the International Light Award 2019, on light as a medium and her idea of a space innogy-stiftung.com on June 21, 2019, accessed on August 15, 2015
- ↑ Million donation for RWE Mitteldeutsche Zeitung on May 21, 2015, accessed on July 14, 2015
- ↑ Network expansion goes to school innogy-stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Network expansion makes school netzausbaumachtschule.de, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ The Ruhr area gets a new literature festival Ruhr Nachrichten from September 5, 2017, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Internationales Literaturfest lit.RUHR lit.ruhr/de, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Easy energy education at the lit.RUHR innogy-stiftung.com, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Energy for the neighborhood is looking for project teams waz.de, accessed on September 8, 2017
- ↑ Sponsor wcge.org, accessed on September 8, 2017
- ↑ Think Lab Energy - Society - Change sdw.org, accessed on September 8, 2017
- ↑ Partners eyp.org, accessed September 8, 2017