Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation

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Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation
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Legal form: gGmbH
Purpose: Promotion of science and research, education and training, art and culture, international understanding and the idea of ​​home.
Chair: Angelika Lautenschläger
Managing directors: Catharina Seegelken and Markus Lautenschläger
Consist: since 2002
Founder: Manfred Lautenschläger
Seat: Heidelberg
Website: www.manfred-lautenschlaeger-stiftung.de

The Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation is characterized by the breadth of its funding areas. She wants to directly improve people's living conditions and through her work support a better society through science and innovation.

Funding priorities

Children and young people

  • 2015: Nationwide initiative: Children should be able to swim better. The concept developed by the Institute for Sport and Sport Science at the University of Heidelberg with the support of the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation relies on small learning groups, playful pedagogy and positive learning experiences.
  • 2014: Completion of the regional project “Reading Start”: In the Heidelberg area, the campaign has already reached 12,000 families since it started in 2007. Immediately after the birth of their child in the University Women's Clinic, all families received a reading start set sponsored by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation with a picture book and information material on the subject of reading aloud.
  • 2014: Young literature fans want to encourage other young people to read. There are also workshops at schools that are financed by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation.
  • 2014: The ADFC Heidelberg starts a racing and mountain bike meeting for young people. With the support of the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation, 22 racing bikes and eight mountain bikes are available.
  • 2005–2010: Together with Kindernothilfe, 80 new schools were built in Ethiopia . Since 2005, 30,000 students have been taught by 200 teachers.

Science and Research

  • 2012: Type 2 diabetes study is supported with 1.5 million euros by the foundation.
  • 2012: A valuable medieval manuscript collection was digitized in the Vatican . The project was essentially financed by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation in Heidelberg.
  • 2010: One million for cancer research : Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation supports the development of new vaccines against cancer.

Tolerance and integration

Regional funding

  • 2016: The second Heidelberg Dance Biennale was funded by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation in addition to the city and the state.
  • 2015: The Heidelberg Stückemarkt's authors' prize was awarded to Lukas Linder for the play "The Man from Oklahoma". The prize has been awarded by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation since 2008 and is endowed with 10,000 euros.
  • 2014: The Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation financed the modernization of lecture hall 13 at Heidelberg University with 1.2 million euros.

Awards and grants

  • 2015: The Indologist Axel Michaels received the Lautenschläger Research Prize endowed with 250,000 euros . It is advertised every two years and promotes international scientific collaborations.
  • 2015: The sculptor and painter Michael Lingrên was awarded the Willibald Kramm Prize financed by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation.
  • 2014: 20 scholarship holders were nominated for the “Medical Excellence” 2014 program of the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation. For the sixth time, the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation supports top medical students with a three-year scholarship.
  • 2014: The Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation founded the “ MINT Excellence” initiative to counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the natural sciences and technical professions.

Web links

Video recording of a report by Rhein-Neckar television .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stiftungen.org, Federal Association of German Foundations, purpose of the foundation
  2. bildungsklick.de, Children should be able to swim better , July 8, 2015
  3. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Reading aloud promotes language skills , September 19, 2014
  4. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, We are reading soldiers , March 1, 2014
  5. ^ Morgenweb Mannheim, stop at the ice cream parlor is part of it , by Mirjam Moll, April 4, 2014
  6. Kindernothilfe, helping people to help themselves , undated
  7. ^ Diabetes Portal, gastric surgery for type 2 diabetes , December 6, 2012
  8. Stuttgarter Zeitung, The "Palatina" united in the network , October 29, 2012
  9. ^ German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, One Million for Cancer Research , July 15, 2010
  10. Göttinger Tageblatt, European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma for Tilman Zülch , March 3, 2014
  11. ^ Morgenweb Mannheim, Strangers on the Soccer Field , by Christian Beister, May 3, 2014
  12. Theaterkompass, the theater portal, The Second Dance Biennale Heidelberg , January 22nd - 31st, 2016
  13. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Stückemarkt author award to Lukas Linder . May 2015
  14. Heidelberg University, inauguration of lecture hall 13 , July 11, 2014
  15. ^ University of Heidelberg, Lautenschläger Research Award , November 6, 2015
  16. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Michael Lingrên receives the Heidelberg Willibald Kramm Prize , May 5, 2015
  17. ^ Doctors Zeitung, Scholarships for Medical Excellence , October 1, 2014
  18. Deutsche Ärztezeitung, Scholarships for Medical Excellence , May 9, 2014
  19. svz.de, newspaper publisher Schwerin, Inspired by Technology , May 15, 2014
  20. ^ Youtube, RNF report , June 15, 2015