Vodafone Foundation Germany

The Vodafone Foundation Germany is a gGmbH based in Düsseldorf and Berlin , which is supported by the international Vodafone Foundation and Vodafone Germany . Together with partners from politics, science and civil society, she conducts research and initiates programs in the field of digital education. It has its own think tank and as an operational foundation implements various projects and events.

The Vodafone Foundation sees itself as an operational foundation.

The foundation is a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations .

Fields of action

The foundation's work is focused on “Competencies for the digital world of work” and “Democracy in the digital society”.

Programmatic work

The Vodafone Foundation launched the Coding For Tomorrow initiative in 2017 and the Klickwinkel - Broaden your digital perspective in 2018 . The offers of both initiatives are aimed at students and teachers.

Coding For Tomorrow is based on the focus on “Competencies for the digital world of work” and focuses primarily on the development of innovative educational offers at primary and secondary schools. The initiative aims to support schools in developing lessons using digital media and new technologies, and to enable all students in Germany to have access to digital education. For this purpose, it offers teaching units, project days, holiday camps and teacher training courses as well as teaching materials. The initiative is under the patronage of the Minister of State for Digitization Dorothee Bär and is carried out with the project partner Junge Tüftler gGmbH.

According to its own statements, the initiative Klickwinkel has set itself the goal of turning young people into critical and responsible designers of the digital society. The focus is on dealing critically with disinformation and strengthening resilience. Klickwinkel is under the patronage of the Federal President and is carried out for the school in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg , Teach First Germany and ZEIT .

In addition, the Vodafone Foundation is involved, for example, as a partner of events such as the Youth Internet Governance Forum in Berlin or the Conference Education Digitization 2019 and is involved in the work of the Oxford Internet Institute on disinformation. With Coding For Tomorrow , the foundation has also been a partner of the BMBF initiative “We stay smart! Alliance for STEM education at home ”, through which online STEM offers are to be made more easily accessible for schoolchildren at home.

The Vodafone Foundation was the initiator of the German Teacher Award up to and including 2019 and, from 1994 to 2020, it was a program partner and sponsor of the Off Road Kids Foundation , which offers advice and assistance programs for young homeless people in Germany. In 1999, the Vodafone Foundation initiated the buddY project (later Education Y ), one of the oldest school development programs, and has been the main sponsor for a long time. Other former funding programs of the foundation also include Teach First Germany , the Social Entrepreneurship Academy , Rock Your Life , Quinoa - Education for Excellent Life Perspectives , Ashoka Germany and ArbeiterKind.de .

Think tank

The think tank -work the Foundation follows the two focal points of the foundation "skills for the digital world of work" and "democracy in the digital society" and to the programmatic work to support the initiatives through joint studies and publications with institutions and partners from science.

Selected publications of the foundation

"School at a distance" - perspectives and recommendations for everyday school life. A representative survey of teachers in Germany (2020); Implementation: Institute for Demoskopie Allensbach with analyzes by Birgit Eickelmann and Kerstin Drossel
“Under Pressure” - The situation of parents and their school-age children during school closings (2020); Implementation: Infratest dimap
“Youth will move” - study on the political participation of young people in Germany (survey: 2019); Implementation: Infratest dimap
“More courage to digital education” - short study on the attitude of Germans towards digital innovations in education in an international comparison (2019); Implementation: Ipsos
"Young! Digital! Social? “- Study on explanatory factors for online social skills in children and adolescents (2019); Implementation: German Youth Institute
"Success factor resilience" - PISA special evaluation of the OECD on young people who show solid performance in the PISA test in spite of a rather poorly educated parents and thus regardless of their socio-economic background - funded by the Vodafone Foundation Germany (2018)
“Coding and Character” - Representative survey: Which skills do Germans consider to be the most important for the digital future? (2017); Implementation: Kantar TNS
"Ten points for better educational opportunities" - A summary of the most important findings from previous studies and projects (2017)
“Dare to go to school” - recommendations for a good all-day day by the Vodafone Foundation Germany, Bertelsmann Foundation , Robert Bosch Foundation and Stiftung Mercator (2017)
“Opportunities and prerequisites for an integration ministry at federal level” - study on the situation of people seeking protection in Germany, administrative responsibilities (2017); Implementation: Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences
"Instructions for use for lifelong learning" - Findings on further training and how companies and employees can use them (2016); Implementation: University of Applied Management with advice from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
"The digital change in the world of work and challenges for education" - A foreseight study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (2016)
“Decoupled from the system” - study on adolescents in extreme risk situations (2015); Implementation: German Youth Institute
“Great diversity, fewer opportunities” - study on the milieu-specific educational experience of migrants in Germany (2015), together with Stiftung Mercator ; Implementation: University of Düsseldorf
“What 'parents want'” - survey among parents on educational apprenticeships of their children; Implementation: Institute for Demoskopie Allensbach
“School, and then?” - Study on the career orientation of schoolchildren in Germany (2014); Implementation: Institute for Demoskopie Allensbach

Web links

Individual evidence

[Tätigkeitsbericht_2020-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Activity report of the Vodafone Foundation 2020

[Website_der_Vodafone_Stiftung-2] website of the Vodafone Foundation

[3] Foundation search by the Federal Association of German Foundations

[Coding_For_Tomorrow-4] Website of the Coding For Tomorrow initiative

[Klickwinkel-5] Website of the Initiative Klickwinkel - Broaden your digital view

[6] Press release on the assumption of patronage by Dorothee Bär, on September 13, 2018

[7] Team and project partner of Coding For Tomorrow

[8] Website of the initiative click Angle: About Us

[9] Website of the Youth Internet Governance Forum

[10] Conference Education Digitization 2019

[11] The partners of the MINT Alliance of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

[12] Off Road Kids annual statistics 2019

[13] About Education Y

[14] Foundation archive on publications and programs

[15] Publication page of the foundation

[16] Study: School at a distance

[17] Study: Under Pressure

[18] Study: Youth want to move

[19] Study: More courage for digital education

[20] Study: Young! Digital! Social?

[21] Study: Success Factor Resilience

[22] Study: Coding and Character

[23] Publication: Ten points for better educational opportunities

[24] Publication: Dare to go to school

[25] Study: Chances and Requirements for an Integration Ministry at the federal level

[26] Publication: Instructions for use for lifelong learning

[27] Study: The digital change in the world of work and challenges for education

[28] Study: Decoupled from the system

[29] Study: Great diversity, fewer opportunities

[30] Study: What 'Parents Want'

[31] Study: School, what then?