Westphalia Initiative Foundation

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The Westphalia Initiative for Personal Responsibility and Public Welfare , based in Münster, is a non-profit foundation under civil law. In accordance with its statutes, the Westphalia Initiative Foundation promotes science and research, education and upbringing, as well as promoting the idea of ​​home in relation to the Westphalia area. In these funding areas, the foundation wants to promote the principle of subsidiarity through research, implementation and communication. Alongside the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the Westphalian Heimatbund, the Westphalia Initiative Foundation is one of the major promoters of a regional identity. In addition to the foundation, there is also a Westphalia Initiative .

The Foundation

The foundation of the Westphalia Initiative for Personal Responsibility and Public Welfare goes back to the will of the entrepreneur Martin Leicht , who died in 1998 . It is a foundation under civil law . According to its statutes, the Westphalia Initiative Foundation is an operational, not a support foundation. She usually realizes her projects and initiatives together with cooperation partners from the public or non-profit sector as well as from business. The projects are not only financially supported by the foundation, they are carried out by the foundation or accompanied by staff. With the express cooperation mandate, the Westphalia Initiative Foundation acts as a networking institution in Westphalia.

The board currently consists of the chairman Hans Moormann, the deputy chairman Klaus P. Strautmann and Stefanie Schnusenberg-Besselmann. The board of directors is controlled by a twelve-person board of trustees, chaired by Carl-Julius Cronenberg from Arnsberg. The day-to-day operations in the office in the center of Münster are managed by the managing director Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath.

Activities and projects

Civil society

  • Annual competition WestfalenBeweger: competition to strengthen civic engagement. Prize money of up to 35,000 euros will be distributed in the competition.
  • Foundation Association Westphalia-Lippe : The aim of the foundation association, which was initiated in 2006 and coordinated by the Westphalia Initiative Foundation, is to encourage foundations in Westphalia to enter into regional cooperation and to promote the exchange of know-how.

culture and education

Demographic change

  • The Westphalia Initiative Foundation, together with the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, commissioned a study on current and future demographic and economic developments and challenges in Westphalia and its subregions. The contractor is the Berlin Institute for Population and Development . In July 2018, the study was presented as a publication "One region, many prospects. How demographic change demands Westphalia" in the NRW state representation in Berlin .

Europe - Subsidiarity and Regions

  • On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of the founder, Martin Leicht, based on the legacy of the founder, a new discussion was initiated around the foundation's core concepts such as common good and personal initiative, subsidiarity, Europe of the regions, home Westphalia, social responsibility and the foundation system. On September 8, 2018, the lecture event "Subsidiarity in the political system of Europe" with the President of the Bundestag a. D. Norbert Lammert in the Erbdrostenhof in Münster, accompanied by the publication “Europe - Subsidiarity and Regions” in the series of the Westphalia Initiative.
  • A chimney evening with the President of the Committee of the Regions, Karl-Heinz Lambertz (Senator of the German-speaking Community of Belgium) took place in October 2018 to reflect on the core issues .

Publications

  • The organization publishes its own series.

Repository

  • WestfalenSlam: At the first WestfalenSlam on July 19, 2014 in Lippstadt, twelve competitions were about games, sports, skills and brains.
  • WestfalenSprung - Martin Leicht Prize for urban and regional development. The prize was last awarded in 2015.
  • Administrative structural reform in North Rhine-Westphalia: With reports and expertise, the Westphalia Initiative endeavors to objectify the recurring discussion about the state's administrative structure. In addition to the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the Westphalian Heimatbund , the Westphalia Initiative was one of the key supra-local actors who opposed the abolition of the previous district governments in favor of three large successor authorities and the dissolution of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe.
  • Westfälische Ehrengalerie : Every two years, a historical and a congenial figure who has made a special contribution to Westphalia in a certain area was admitted to the Westphalian Honor Gallery as part of a ceremony.
  • “Experiencing Westphalia”: a bike tour for journalists that took place six times between 2002 and 2015 and presented and explored cultural, economic, scenic and other highlights from Westphalia.
  • "Nonprofit Management and Governance" course: This first German course, which prepares students for work in the non-profit sector, was developed together with the Center for Nonprofit Management and implemented at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .
  • Internet portal "Westphalian History": There, the place together with the fiber optic Westphalian Institute for Regional History of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe has developed award-winning source of materials, lessons and news on the history of Westphalia.
  • Learning responsibility: Based on the service-learning approach, students are made aware of social problems and civic engagement through independently designed projects in class. Cooperation project with the foundations Bürger für Münster and Bürger Orphanage. Since 2008 it has been financed by the WGZ-Bank under the title “Socially Genial” and carried out by the Active Citizenship throughout North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Between 2004 and 2010 the association organized the international organ festival Westfalen-Lippe with financial support from the foundation . In addition, the Westphalian-Lippe organ competition Westfalen Impro took place between 2005 and 2016.

Homepage

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statutes of the Foundation §2 II
  2. ^ Scharte, Sebastian: Images of Westphalia and Westphalia consciousness. The challenges of regional cultural policy and administrative structural reform. Münster, 2003 p. 106
  3. ↑ Annual report 2017/18 of the Westphalia Initiative Foundation.
  4. ↑ Westphalia moves | The Westphalia Initiative. Accessed April 1, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Lange, Niels; Ueschner, Janina; Vilain, Michael: Together instead of side by side - The Westphalia-Lippe Foundation Association as an engine for regional foundation cooperation, pp. 48–66. In: Lange, Niels; Ueschner, Janina; Vilain, Michael (Ed.): Regional Foundation Cooperation. Networks and foundation associations in theory and practice. Series of publications by the Westphalia Initiative Foundation Volume 13, Ibbenbürener Vereinsdruckerei GmbH 2008
  6. ↑ Upbringing together makes you strong | The Westphalia Initiative. Accessed December 3, 2018 (German).
  7. ^ Berlin Institute for Population and Development: One region, many prospects. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Publications | The Westphalia Initiative. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  9. ^ Stiftung Westfalen-Initiative (ed.): WestfalenSprung 2011. Documentation of the Martin-Leicht-Preis for urban and regional development. Münster: Ibbenbürener Vereinsdruckerei GmbH 2012.
  10. ↑ [Bogumil, Jörg; Reichard, Christoph; Siebart, Patricia: Expertise on administrative structural reform in NRW. Series of publications of the Westphalia Initiative Foundation Volume 8, Münster: Ibbenbürener Vereinsdruckerei GmbH 2004, ISBN 3-932959-37-X .].
  11. ^ Scharte, Sebastian: Images of Westphalia and Westphalia consciousness. The challenges of regional cultural policy and administrative structural reform. Münster, 2003 p. 105
  12. ↑ Wielens, Hans (ed.): Westphalian gallery of honor. Münster: LIT-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5876-6 .
  13. ↑ "Nonprofit Management and Governance" course ( memento of the original from June 16, 2010 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.npm-online.de
  14. ↑ Internet portal 'Westphalian History'. March 25, 2014, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Service learning with social genial - Active Citizenship Foundation . In: Active Citizenship Foundation . ( aktiv-buergerschaft.de [accessed on December 3, 2018]).