Progressive center
| The Progressive Center | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Bringing ideas for progress and innovation-oriented politics into the public debate and onto the political agenda |
| management | Dominic Schwickert (managing director), Judith Siller (board member), Michael Miebach (board member), Katarina Niewiedzial (board member), Thomas Kralinksi (board member) Wolfgang Schroeder (chairman of the scientific advisory board) |
| Establishment date | 2007 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| Website | www.progressives-zentrum.org |
The Progressive Center is an independent left-liberal think tank in the legal form of a registered association (eV). It was founded in 2007 and is based in Berlin .
General
The think tank was initiated, among others, by the publicist Tobias Dürr and the former director of the London think tank Policy Network Olaf Cramme . It deals thematically in particular with European integration and the reform capability of democratic institutions, but also with labor , social and economic policy issues. This also includes questions about how to deal with right-wing populism and how to shape the new world of work fairly. To this end, the work of the Progressive Center is divided into three program areas: international relations, the future of democracy and structural change.
In terms of political ideas, the association invokes Amartya Sen's approach to realizing opportunities and derives its name from its reference to progressivism . Accordingly, he puts his focus on social innovation and wants to progress-oriented society visions make a majority.
The main part of the work is the publication of publications such as studies, “policy briefs” and opinion pieces, as well as the organization of national and international conferences and discussions, mostly with representatives from politics, science, business and civil society.
The Progressive Center currently employs twenty-one people. In addition, it involves a large number of associated scientists and practitioners in its work as policy and visiting fellows. The Progressive Center is financed by project funds, research contracts, as well as private donations and sponsoring.
Self-image and goal
“The Progressive Center is an independent, non-profit think tank based on the Anglo-Saxon model. It was founded in 2007 in the legal form of a registered association (eV) and is based in Berlin. The goal of the Progressive Center is to bring progressive and innovative ideas into the public debate and onto the political agenda. In addition, according to the mission statement, new networks of actors are to be created who represent progressive positions. Young personalities from Germany and Europe are particularly involved. In addition to the publication of studies and practice-oriented recommendations for action, the Progressive Center organizes international and national conferences and discussions. "
“The aim of the Progressive Center is to bring progress and innovation-oriented political ideas into the public debate and onto the political agenda in accordance with the triad of 'thinking ahead - networking - arguing'. It involves particularly young, responsible thought leaders and decision-makers from Germany and Europe in progressive debates. According to its mission statement, the Progressive Center wants to contribute to the creation of new networks of progressive actors of different origins and to make an active policy for economic, ecological and social progress capable of a majority. "
Networks and partners
The Progressive Center works on a national level with academic institutions such as the Hertie School of Governance and the Berlin Science Center for Social Research , non-partisan foundations such as the New Responsibility Foundation , the Bertelsmann Foundation , the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe , the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Mercator Foundation , with party-affiliated foundations such as the Heinrich Böll Foundation , the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation as well as with federal ministries such as the Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth .
It is also part of a larger network of international think tanks. These include Policy Network (London), the European Council on Foreign Relations , the Center for American Progress (Washington, DC), Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institut (Paris), Krytyka Polityczna (Warsaw), Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), the Progressive Policy Institute (Washington, DC), the Wiardi Beckman Stichting (The Hague), and various other institutions and think tanks.
In addition, many well-known politicians, publicists and experts support the think tank as members of the Circle of Friends and the Scientific Advisory Board. The website names, for example: Katrin Göring-Eckardt , Cem Özdemir (Greens), Thomas Oppermann , Hubertus Heil , Brigitte Zypries (SPD), Wolfgang Merkel , Roger Liddle , Patrick Diamond, Gert G. Wagner , Henrik Enderlein , Jürgen Kocka , Anke Hassel , or Tissy Bruns (†).
Web links
- Progressive Center website
- When the State Secretary discusses with the student In: Der Tagesspiegel 2015
- Tobias Dürr: Project Left Center - Governing for Progress. In: Friday
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Thinktank Directory
- ^ Germans desperately seeking southern comfort . In: Politico . March 16, 2016 ( politico.eu [accessed March 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Lisa Caspari: Parties: "What better than the party has not yet been invented" . In: The time . April 28, 2016, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Egon Huschitt: Can the parties still be saved? In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 26, 2016 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed March 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Zacharias Zacharakis: SPD: Nahles' new world of work . In: The time . November 18, 2015, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 29, 2017]).
- ↑ https://www.progressives-zentrum.org/agenda/internationale-beektiven/
- ↑ https://www.progressives-zentrum.org/agenda/zukunft-demokratie/
- ↑ https://www.progressives-zentrum.org/agenda/innovation-nachhaltigkeit/
- ↑ a b The Progressive Center. In: politdir.de. November 20, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ 4s-design.de ( Memento from July 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The team. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Scientific Advisory Board. The Progressive Center, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ^ Fellows - progressives-zentrum.org
- ↑ Partner - progressives-zentrum.org
- ^ Circle of Friends - progressives-zentrum.org
- ↑ Fabian Leber: When the State Secretary discusses with the student . In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 6, 2015 ( When the State Secretary discusses with the student [accessed March 29, 2017]).