Press Releases & News

Dr. Nina Smidt and Christine Niewöhner from Siemens Stiftung, together with Claudia Nicolai and Sherif Osman from HPI School of Design Thinking, will join a session to announce the winners of the Global Design Thinking Challenge.

German foundations came together in Leipzig for this year’s German Foundation Day (28.09.2022-30.09.2022). Sustainability was the overarching theme of all the discussions with an emphasis on the role foundations can play to cultivate and promote it in their areas of work.

The motto of the German Foundation Day 2022 is "Foundations - shaping the future sustainably". Dr Nina Smidt, Managing Director of the Siemens Stiftung will take part in two panel discussions.

Siemens Stiftung on behalf of the Smart Energy Solutions for Africa consortium is launching its first “Call for Entrepreneurs”, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises with a focus on sustainable energy solutions.

To mark the 15th anniversary of Design Thinking and the launch of the first-ever "Global Design Thinking" Challenge, Christine Niewöhner from Siemens Stiftung delivered a keynote on “Education as a Global Challenge".

With projects such as Make@thons, we work with partners in the MINT Hub Siemensstadt Square to promote high-quality STEM education from daycare centers to secondary school.

Dr. Nina Smidt delivered a keynote on STEM learning and educational innovation in Latin American at the REDECANEDU congress.

HPI School of Design Thinking and the Global Design Thinking Alliance bring the first ever Global Design Thinking Challenge from 8 September – 14 October 2022.

Meet the three finalists of our epScale funding call: Kwangu Kwako, Mace Foods Limited and Sunken Limited. Co-founded by women, all three social enterprises address crucial basic at supplz areas like providing affordable and sanitary housing, sustainable food production, and eco-friendly cooking solutions....

Registrations for the 2022 edition of the Music In Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases (ACCES) are now open on a first-come, first-served basis.