Selbach Environment Foundation

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The Selbach Environment Foundation wants to make a contribution to the preservation and restoration of a livable and sustainable nature and environment as well as to a peaceful interaction of people with their natural environment. It was founded in 2003 by siblings Karl Heinrich Selbach and Erika Littmann in Munich .

The foundation's capital comes from a family fortune that has been generated in the textile industry over several generations.

The name giver is the father of the founder Erich Selbach .

The foundation supports third-party projects and is also operationally active in its own projects. There are currently four main areas of work:

  • Promotion of nature and environmental education, especially for children and young people, as well as practical nature conservation.
  • Educational work for adults in the field of "sustainable development", including through regular lecture events ("Munich Sustainability Forum").
  • Promotion of ecologically oriented young scientists, among other things by awarding research prizes such as the Kapp Research Prize for Ecological Economy , the GAIA Masters Student Paper Award and a sustainability prize for scientific work by students at Munich universities
  • Implementation of conferences and workshops as well as publication funding in the above-mentioned subject areas.

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Individual evidence

  1. Selbach Environment Foundation: Kapp Research Prize , accessed on March 3, 2015.
  2. Selbach Environment Foundation: GAIA Masters Student Paper Award , accessed on March 3, 2015.
  3. Selbach Environment Foundation: Sustainability Award for academic work by students at Munich universities , accessed on March 3, 2015.
  4. Sabine Buchwald: Munich expert gives tips on food storage. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  5. Environmental foundations introduce themselves to the Federal Association of German Foundations, ISBN 978-3-941368-38-5 , p. 93.