International training and development
The international further education and development gGmbH (InWEnt) was an existing from 2002 to 2010 and through the merger of the German Foundation for international development (DSE) and the Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft e. V. (CDG) establishment of development cooperation in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH . In 2011 it was incorporated into the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).
background
The main field of activity was the qualification of specialists and managers from various countries of origin and their institutions. InWEnt was internationally active, worked with partners from business, politics, administration and civil society and held seminars, discussion events and e-learning courses . An alumni program should support the long-term impact of the programs. InWEnt's roughly 820 full-time or freelance employees worked at 30 locations in Germany and abroad. Around 500 people worked at the InWEnt headquarters in Bonn . Sales in 2008 were around EUR 136 million.
The main shareholder of the company was the federal government. This was represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , which was also the most important client. Other clients were the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , the Foreign Office , the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the European Commission .
40 institutions sent their employees to the preparatory facility for development cooperation, known as the “Center for International Competence in Action”, to prepare their work in developing countries. The Service Agency for Municipalities in One World , a joint institution of the federal, state and non-governmental organizations to strengthen municipal development cooperation, also worked under the umbrella of InWEnt . This was continued by the BMZ as part of the Engagement Global facility .
Business areas
In detail, the business areas included
- Development-related information and education work
- Further training for specialists and managers from developing countries
- International and intercultural qualification of young professionals, specialists and managers from Germany and other industrialized countries
- International dialogue and exchange of experiences
- Preparation of specialists in German development cooperation.
History of the Carl Duisberg Society
InWEnt was the successor organization to the Carl Duisberg Society, whose name goes back to the chemist Carl Duisberg , who worked in the Bayer plants and from 1925 until shortly before his death in 1935 as chairman of the supervisory board of IG Farben .
As early as the 1920s, young Germans, especially engineers and farmers, went to the USA for internships. The first proven US intern was Karl Schwabbach, who earned the crossing to the US in 1921 as a stoker on a ship and then worked in various American companies. He reported regularly in letters about his experiences in the USA. These letters were passed on to German engineers and students, and five more working students went to the USA in the following year . At the end of the 1920s, working students founded their first branch in New York to promote the transatlantic exchange of engineers and skilled workers. The first Americans had traveled to Germany as working students since the mid-1920s. As a result of their stay abroad, the participants had excellent intercultural and foreign language skills and were often able to fall back on a large network of contacts in the partner country. With the rise of National Socialism in Germany, these approaches died out.
After the end of the Second World War , leaders from business and politics, with the support of the US High Commissioner John Jay McCloy, took up the approach of working students and founded the Carl Duisberg Society (CDG) in 1949. Through experience abroad, first in the USA, later in other European countries and ultimately worldwide, the young generation in Germany should be given a new, international perspective. The first young professionals traveled to the USA as early as 1950. Many of the former participants now hold key positions in business, politics and culture.
Successor organizations to the Carl Duisberg Society
Many of the Carl Duisberg Society's programs lived on at InWEnt, including the transatlantic programs, in which well over 1,000 young graduates and professionals, Germans and Americans, take part every year.
The Carl Duisberg Society existed until it was merged with the DSE to form international training and development gGmbH in 2002. Up to that time, around 300,000 people had taken part in CDG programs. In the end, the budget was around 100 million euros, raised by around 750 donors.
The Society for Technical Cooperation , the German Development Service and InWEnt signed a merger agreement in Berlin in December 2010 that merged them to form the new German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).
On January 1, 2011, InWEnt was incorporated into this new company.
See also
Web links
- Description of Inwent in the BMZ list of development cooperation actors
- Literature by and about InWEnt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2008 ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.1 MB) p. 16
- ↑ Description of Inwent in the BMZ preparation of development cooperation actors
- ↑ Service point at Engagement Global
- ↑ Sustainability.info : Carl Duisberg Society
- ↑ [htthttp: //wayback.archive.org/web/20140109092614/ http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/entwicklungshilfe114.html ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau: German development aid is bundled] ( Archive version)
