Westerwelle Foundation
| Westerwelle Foundation - Foundation for international understanding (WF) |
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| Legal form: | Foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Strengthening democracy |
| Chair: | Michael Mronz |
| Managing directors: | Alexander Vogel |
| Consist: | since December 2013 |
| Founder: | Guido Westerwelle , Ralph Dommermuth |
| Number of employees: | 6th |
| Seat: | Berlin |
| Website: | westerwelle-foundation.com |
The Westerwelle Foundation - Foundation for International Understanding is a non-profit , legal foundation under civil law based in Berlin . It was founded in December 2013 by Guido Westerwelle , former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs. D., and Ralph Dommermuth , CEO and founder of United Internet AG . The aim of the foundation is to strengthen democracy in transition and emerging countries around the world by promoting and expanding the middle classes in these countries. In order to achieve this goal, the foundation is primarily involved in the field of business start-ups and vocational training .
purpose
The international commitment to democracy, the rule of law , the social market economy , tolerance and political and economic participation are the focus of the foundation's activities.
According to the statutes, the foundation pursues the following charitable purposes according to § 52 of the tax code :
- Promotion of international attitudes, tolerance in all areas of culture and the idea of international understanding (§ 52 Paragraph 2 Sentence 1 No. 13 AO)
- Promotion of development cooperation (§ 52 Paragraph 2 Sentence 1 No. 15 AO)
- Promotion of upbringing, national and vocational training including student aid (Section 52 Paragraph 2 Sentence 1 No. 7 AO)
Projects
Together with partners, the foundation maintains various programs and projects in the areas of business start-up support, vocational training and networking.
Startup houses in Africa
Together with the Berlin association enpact , the foundation set up a business start-up center in Tunis and opened it in March 2016. The startup house in downtown Tunis is the contact point and central meeting point for start-ups and young, economically interested people. In cooperation with local partners, the center bundles existing initiatives and offers under one roof: Startups , prospective founders and interested parties receive the necessary office space and technology, the opportunity to exchange ideas with like-minded people, access to national and international programs, advice and workshops as well as contact with potential investors, authorities and legal advice.
With the startup house Tunis, the Westerwelle Foundation would like to support young founders on their way to self-employment. The house offers individual offices and co-working spaces as well as the associated infrastructure: a workstation with internet and printer as well as meeting, seminar and lounge rooms. In addition to providing the necessary infrastructure, the startup house offers a supportive network of founders from different industries who support each other with knowledge and experience.
The founder rents his workplace in the startup house for a small fee. In 2018, a startup house also opened in Kigali , Rwanda , in cooperation with the evonik Foundation.
Events, conferences and contributions to debates
The foundation regularly contributes to current debates through name posts in national media.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Articles of Association of the Westerwelle Foundation - Foundation for International Understanding . FragDenStaat.de , accessed on August 16, 2016 (PDF; 53 kB).
- ^ Westerwelle Foundation: Board of Directors and Team. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
- ^ Severin Weiland: Future of the ex-foreign minister: Westerwelle founds the “Westerwelle Foundation”. In: Spiegel Online . December 18, 2013, accessed March 11, 2016 .
- ^ Severin Weiland: Cancer treatment: Westerwelle is back in the hospital. In: Spiegel Online. March 10, 2016, accessed March 11, 2016 .
- ^ Westerwelle Foundation - Foundation for international understanding: Start-up center in Tunis | Westerwelle Foundation - Foundation for international understanding. In: Westerwelle Foundation - Foundation for international understanding. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Enpact launches startup house in Tunisia , Mohammad M. Azraq, wamda , 22 March 2016
- ↑ STARTUP HOUSE TUNIS. In: startup-haus.org. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Westerwelle Startup Haus opens doors in Kigali , Gabriella Mulligan, disrupt-africa.com, October 5, 2018
- ↑ Alexander Vogel: Continuity only through change. In: The world . Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Alexander Vogel: For Europe, for Africa, for democracy. In: TheEuropean. January 24, 2016, accessed March 11, 2016 .