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Körber-Stiftung: shaping change

Knowledge for Tomorrow, international dialogue, and a vibrant civil society: Körber-Stiftung promotes societal responsibility.

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Societal change is successful only if people get involved. 

Körber-Stiftung encourages societal commitment by initiating discussions and testing solutions. The foundation promotes dialogue between nations and between societal groups in Germany. Further, its activities support an increase in understanding and reflection through science, education, and culture as well as via the reflection of people’s historical origins and identity. 

Körber-Stiftung pursues the mission statement of speaking, acting and motivating to make arguments and ideas heard, to implement these ideas and formats in its own projects, and to bring together multipliers and decision-makers: with the aim of improving social coexistence.

The foundation’s work is based on several areas of action: Knowledge for Tomorrow, international dialogue, a vibrant civil society and cultural impulses for Hamburg. 

The foundation was established in 1959 by the entrepreneur and visionary Kurt A. Körber. As an innovative thinker, he not only founded an international technology Group but also laid the cornerstone of the Foundation. 

Körber-Stiftung is the sole shareholder of Körber AG, which is part of the foundation’s assets. The foundation receives an annual dividend from its equity investment in Körber AG, which it uses exclusively for socially beneficial purposes.

Two girls working on a computer at the Code Week Hamburg.

Code Week

The "Code Week" puts new technologies into the context of different disciplines in a clear and playful way for young generations. At the same time, it offers impulses and aoccasions to discover programming for themselves also beyond the action weeks.

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Berlin Foreign Policy Forum

How can European security regulation look like in the future? Among others, this question was discussed at this year’s Berlin Foreign Policy Forum with the title ”The Price of Peace: Rethinking Security for Germany and Europe”.

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Quantum internet pioneer

The German computer scientist Stephanie Wehner has been awarded with this year's Körber European Science Prize, endowed with one million euros, for her groundbreaking work on the quantum internet. Stephanie Wehner’s latest breakthrough is QNodeOS, the world’s first operating system for quantum networks.