Where we campaign
This section provides an overview of our Europe-wide projects focussing on equal opportunities and international and intercultural understanding.
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Digital, Free Learning Support
A flexible in-app learning platform providing disadvantaged children and young people free learning support in order to boost academic opportunities and performance.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
NextGen Rights: “Our Voice Counts!”
Giving young people a platform to help protect and strengthen their rights, with a focus on key issues such as migration and mental health.
Focus of foundation: International and intercultural exchange
NEET 4 Speed... in Securing Skilled Workers
The project “NEET 4 Speed” aims to engage young people to help them kick-start their professional future and prevent the number of NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) from rising.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Sustainable Nutrition for the Next Generation by Organic Gardening
Through gardening, children in urban areas learn to take responsibility for food and engage in healthy eating.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Motivated to Succeed
Adults excelling in their career path reveal the endless professional opportunities to students from the ages of 10 to 14 from socially poor backgrounds.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
RuhrArt Moves
The project “RuhrArt Moves”, focusing on children and teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds, opens up cultural understanding and enhances children’s self-expression.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Growing Up in a Healthy Manner in Essen – Family-Primary School-Centres
Family-primary school-centres offer a learning, living, and connecting environment for children and their respective families. Project offerings tailored for entire families range from communal cooking sessions to individual parental counselling.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
#networkTalents
Project “#networkTalents” is a partnership between schools in Germany, Spain, France, and the Czech Republic, establishing a digital space for the exchange between the respective students in order to foster democratic values.
Focus of foundation: International and intercultural understanding
LearningCentres
The “learningCentres”, which regularly support approx. 200 students from Essen, offer additional learning support in a home-like and familiar environment.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
The Book-Suitcase-Programme
Working with nurseries, schools, and parental homes, the “Book-Suitcase-Programme” founded by coach@school fosters mathematics, listening, reading, and writing skills in young children.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Building Resilience in Disadvantaged Young People
Through outdoor programmes and individual mentoring sessions, the organisation “Youth Adventure Trust” aims to steer disadvantaged young adolescents aged 11 to 16 from Swindon, Wiltshire, and Somerset towards a path of resilience and independence.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
DemocracyTalents
Project “DemocracyTalents” is an empowerment project for socially disadvantaged young adolescents to receive individual support and the subsequent internal drive to act as role models for democratic values.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Network Modules to Improve Cultural Understanding
As part of the project “Network Modules to Improve Cultural Understanding”, young people from Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany create dance productions showcasing their vision of a democratic society.
Focus of foundation: International and intercultural understanding
Prevention is Living
The project offers preventative measures and psychological counselling to children and adolescents at risk of addiction and also supports their families.
Focus on foundation: Equal opportunities
RWE Foundation Education Vouchers with Junior-Uni Ruhr
Project “RWE Foundation Education Vouchers with Junior-Uni Ruhr” grants children and adolescents from poorly educated families the opportunity to take part in extracurricular education.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Supporting Families Affected by Childhood Cancers
The organisation “The Joshua Tree” offers open-ended support to young children suffering from cancer and their families in the UK.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
16th World Festival of Children’s Theatre
The 16th World Festival of Children’s Theatre provides children from all over the world with a space to present their own realities and perspectives through their productions, which they created and enact themselves.
Focus of foundation: International and intercultural understanding
Good Start Into School
Over a period of two years via four weekly learning sessions, children who haven’t attend nursery and come from families lacking in and not seeing the importance of education, are helped to enter the schooling system successfully.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
EnableMe Community
An online space as an information and self-help portal enabling an exchange between fellow young people recently diagnosed with a chronic illness or disability.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
RWE Foundation Education Voucher with Junior Uni Essen
A programme in Essen, providing free of charge STEM-, art, and culture related education opportunities to disadvantaged children and young people – for greater participation and talent development.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Maggie’s Center Groningen
A school programme in Groningen promoting empathy, cohesion, and mutual support in everyday school life by providing information about cancer and other childhood illnesses. This is complemented by individual counselling, peer group activities and local support for affected families.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Balu and You in the Rhineland Region
A mentoring programme in the German Rhineland region, where young adults are trained to support primary school children for a year – to boost their confidence, everyday skills, and educational equality.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Upstream England: Preventing Youth Homelessness Through Early Intervention
A prevention programme in English schools that identifies at-risk youth at an early stage and provides them with individual support to prevent youth homelessness in the long term.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Together in Motion
The project “Together in Motion” creates an inclusive place for children and young people with and without disabilities, which includes various support programmes.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities