Senior Expert Service
| Senior Expert Service (SES) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH and foundation |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat | Bonn |
| management | Susanne nuns |
| Number of employees | approx. 300 (full-time and voluntary) |
| Branch | Volunteer and sending organization |
| Website | www.ses-bonn.de |
The Senior Expert Service (SES) - Foundation of German Business for International Cooperation GmbH - non-profit organization - is a German sending organization for voluntary specialists and executives in retirement or on a professional break .
Support, sponsor and structure
SES is sponsored by the umbrella organizations of German business, the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) and the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH). The SES receives financial support in particular from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The SES headquarters are located in Bonn. In Germany the SES is represented by 17 offices, worldwide by approx. 180 representatives in 90 countries.
history
The SES was founded on January 31, 1983 under the care of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) and with financial support from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 1985 the DIHK, the Federal Association of German Industry and the Carl Duisberg Sponsors 'Circle founded the non-profit SES GmbH, in which the Central Association of German Crafts and the Confederation of German Employers' Associations later participated. In 2003 the SES Foundation was established. BDA, BDI, DIHK and ZDH transfer their shares in SES GmbH to the foundation. Since then, the SES Foundation has been the sole shareholder of SES GmbH.
In 2006 the school program New Impetus for Schoolchildren was launched , in 2008 the VerA initiative to prevent drop-outs. In 2009 the SES won the 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas competition , 2012 won the Germany - Land of Long Life initiative and in 2014 the SES received the Otto Mühlschlegel Prize from the Robert Bosch Foundation . The SES has been supporting the integration of refugees and migrants in general and vocational schools since 2015 . In January 2017, Weltdienst 30+ was launched: with immediate effect, the SES will also send professionals who are still working and would like to volunteer in developing and emerging countries as part of a professional break .
Working method
SES experts support small and medium-sized companies , public administrations , chambers and trade associations , social and medical facilities or institutions of basic and vocational education according to the principle of helping people to help themselves . SES assignments take place primarily in developing and emerging countries . In Germany, the SES supports small and medium-sized companies or non-profit organizations . Furthermore, the promotion of young people in school and training is a focus of the expert work in Germany: There is a school program New impulses for schoolchildren and the VerA initiative to prevent drop-outs . The SES has been committed to young refugees in Germany since 2015. Its experts help them integrate into school, training and everyday life.
More than 12,000 SES experts are registered with the SES (as of 2020) who make their specialist knowledge available on a voluntary basis.
According to its own information, the SES has carried out over 60,000 voluntary expert assignments in more than 160 countries since 1983 (as of 2020).