Press Releases & News

WeTu, a social enterprise founded by Siemens Stiftung in Kenya, develops innovative solutions for sustainable energy, clean drinking water, and e-mobility on Lake Victoria. The Impact Report 2023 provides insights into the company’s social impact.

Digital media and AI offer great potential for teaching and learning, but do not automatically change educational opportunities. To enable equitable participation, a shift in mindset is required. How this can be achieved was the topic at the German KonfBD24 conference.

Over 500 million women and girls worldwide struggle to access resources for menstrual health and hygiene. To address this challenge, Siemens Stiftung is partnering with Cewas and Seecon Impact to launch the first Female Health & Hygiene Accelerator for Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana.

Clean water is a human right and a driving force for sustainable development. In a podcast with Julius Bertram, Dr. Nina Smidt explains how locally rooted social enterprises are making a crucial contribution to reducing the water supply deficit in Kenya.

At the 4GAMECHANGERS conference in Vienna, Dr. Nina Smidt's keynote “Charting the Course of Green Transformation with Education and Social Entrepreneurship”, highlighted initiatives in Africa that build 21st-century skills and drive zero-emission mobility.

Registrations for the 2024 edition of the Music In Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases (ACCES) are now open on a first-come, first-served basis. This year’s ACCES takes place in Kigali, Rwanda, on 15 and 16 November.

On June 6 and every day, we stand for equal opportunity education and respectful coexistence, because this is the only way to create an open and sustainable society. That is why we support the #IchStehAuf (#IStandUp) campaign of Robert Bosch Stiftung and Heidehof Stiftung.

The first issue of the new LA ESCUELA___ JOURNAL focuses on man's relationship with water. It brings together educational, aesthetic and ecological projects and essays with proposals for the protection of water bodies "as a place for life".

GIZ and Siemens Stiftung have selected three Kenyan enterprises to carry out research and development projects in the field of e-mobility. Over a period of twelve months, they will work on market-based solutions and increase their ecological, economic and social impact.

In three virtual sessions, experts lead through the topics of Impact Entrepreneurship and the Triple Bottom Line, Impact Data Generation, and Impact Story Telling.