Press Releases & News

We bid farewell to our Chief Financial Officer Georg Bernwieser, who will be leaving Siemens Stiftung on February 28, 2018. Klaus Grünfelder will take over his role as pro bono Chief Financial Officer in March 2018. Together with his board colleagues Nathalie von Siemens and Rolf Huber, he will be responsible for the operative implementation Read More...

From December 4–5, the foundation Siemens Stiftung participated at INNOVEC (Innovation in Science Education, Innovación en la Enseñanza de la Ciencia A. C.) 9th International Conference on Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE at El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City). The event was organized by INNOVEC and the United States-Mexico Foundation for Science (Fumec) with the support of Read More...

“Roles or functions?”, “Control or trust?”, “Conscious decision-making or coincidence?” The participants of the “empowering people. Workshop” in Amsterdam asked themselves these and other questions last week. On four instructive days almost 50 social entrepreneurs, all of them “empowering people. Network” members from Argentina, China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Read More...

• Combining disciplines: Expanding early STEM education to include aspects of values, language, computer science, and sustainability education and arts-based approaches • Learning digitally: Investing in computer science education for the youngest children • Enabling quality: Striving for high standards as the basis for good STEM education   Global challenges such as migration and climate Read More...

How can we deploy our human ressources efficiently? Which management style is the best one for our team? And how can we improve our decision-making processes? – Questions like these occupy many growing organization. The empowering people. Network by Siemens Stiftung wants to support social entrepreneurs in finding solutions for their personal matters: For an Read More...

This year, the “Corporate Philanthropy Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals Award” goes to Siemens Stiftung. The award honors our commitment to sustainable development within the “empowering people. Network”. At this year’s “Impact. Engineered Conference”, hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the New York-based organization “Engineering for Change”, Carola Schwank, head of Read More...

What abilities and knowledge do children need for a livable future, and how do we support them as they gain these skills? This is the question guiding the “International Dialogue on STEM (IDoS)”, hosted by the “Haus der kleinen Forscher” (Little Scientists’ House) Foundation and Siemens Stiftung on 2 and 3 November in Berlin.  Nearly Read More...

More than 150 musicians, producers, festival organizers, and journalists from Africa and all over the world will attend the Music In Africa Conference For Collaboration, Exchange And Showcases (ACCES) in Dakar, Senegal from November 17 to 18, 2017. With training workshops, panel discussions, presentations, networking sessions, exhibitions and visits to key music industry hubs in Read More...

“Iorana” – this is the word that the residents of Rapa Nui exchange with one another and visitors on their island. It means both “Hello, good day” as well as “good-bye.” Easter Island is an isolated speck of land located in the middle of the vast South Pacific Ocean: 3,700 kilometers and a five-hour flight Read More...

Discover, investigate, experience – Experimento, the international educational program from Siemens Stiftung is already being used in eight Latin American countries and is now available in Bolivia as of September 2017. The educational concept with a practical focus inspires enthusiasm for science through explorative learning and thereby supports the objectives of the Bolivian educational agenda. Read More...