Polytechnic Society Foundation

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Polytechnic Society Foundation
legal form Foundation (Germany)
founding 2005
founder Polytechnic Society
Seat Frankfurt am Main
purpose Family education, language education, cultural education, introduction to science and technology, promotion of civic engagement
Chair Roland Kaehlbrandt
sales 13,298,000 euros (2018)
Foundation capital 393,430,000 euros (2018)
Employees 32 (2018)
Website www.sptg.de

The Frankfurt Polytechnic Foundation is a non-profit foundation under civil law .

Emergence

The foundation was established in 2005 by the traditional Polytechnische Gesellschaft e. V. founded. The Polytechnische Gesellschaft provided the majority of the proceeds from the sale of Frankfurter Sparkasse to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) to establish the foundation . This gave the Polytechnic Society foundation a starting capital of 397 million euros.

organization

The foundation is both active and operational and promotes in the sense of a multi-branch foundation in the following areas:

  • Family education
  • Language education
  • cultural education
  • Introduction to science and technology
  • Promotion of civic engagement.

The individual projects are summarized in so-called project chains . The funded or self-developed projects build on each other within the project chains and thus benefit each other.

Goals and Activities

Due to their origin, the foundation supports locally or in the interests of Frankfurt citizens. It sees itself as the workbench of urban society. The aim of the foundation is to strengthen Frankfurt's position within Germany and in comparison to other metropolises. She wants to help Frankfurt develop into a model for a modern, citizen-friendly urban society.

Nineteen lead projects, which are always about education and responsibility in the broadest sense, characterize the work of the foundation: Babylotsen , Citizens' Academy , The Great Spelling Competition , German Summer , Diesterweg Scholarship for children and their parents , jazz and improvised music in school , Young Researchers , Junior Engineer Academy , College for Young Talents , Concert Education Projects , Main Campus Scholarship Work, Digitechnikum, Meine Zeitung , Opera Studio , Polytechnic Prize , Saturday School for Gifted Craftsmen , District Ambassadors , District Historians and Welcome Days in early parental leave .

Awards

  • 2010: 365 places in the land of ideas : German summer language promotion project as "selected place"
  • 2012: Land of Ideas : The Diesterweg grant for children and their parents as an "educational idea "
  • 2013: Hessian integration prize "Integration and Family" for the Diesterweg scholarship for children and their parents
  • 2016: German Language Culture Prize in the "Institutions" category for the German Summer Language Promotion Project
  • 2018: German reading award: 3rd prize for "Tablets in the classroom - pilot classes in the project 'Meine Zeitung - Frankfurt students read the FAZ" "in the category" Outstanding reading promotion with digital media "
  • 2018: Hessian Prevention Prize: 3rd prize for the project "Welcome days in early parental leave"

The establishment of the Polytechnic Society Foundation, the Frankfurt Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Wöhler Foundation by the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e. V. was awarded the German Founder's Prize in 2016 by the Federal Association of German Foundations .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Foundation at a glance. In: sptg.de. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ Hans Riebsamen: For Frankfurt. 10 years of the Polytechnic Society Foundation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from November 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Activity report 2018 of the Polytechnic Society Foundation. Polytechnic Society Foundation, accessed on April 22, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas - German Summer Wins - Language Promotion . In: Journal Frankfurt . ( journal-frankfurt.de [accessed on May 17, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Four excellent educational ideas from Hessen - society, politics and law. Retrieved on May 17, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Julia Kilian: Hessian Integration Prize goes to four projects. News from the German Press Agency dated November 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ Thomas Remlein: Prize for the German Summer. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from October 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ Hans Riebsamen: Culture Prize for the German Summer. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 12, 2016.
  9. ^ German reading award. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Awarding of the 11th Hessian Prevention Prize | Hessian Ministry of Justice. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 15, 2016 ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftungen.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftungen.org