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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Starter Project – Start of School in Essen
Education begins before school starts: Improving opportunities for all children and their parents through holistic support.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Future Skills ReDI: Digital Training for Kids and Youth
The ReDI School teaches 1,400 children and young people in Duisburg-Marxloh digital skills, from programming to AI. At the heart of the project is the “digital driving licence” for children in grades 3 to 6.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
“Lilo Lausch” – Listening Connects and Opens Up Worlds!
“Lilo Lausch” strengthens early childhood language and listening skills in daycare centres – in a playful, diverse and everyday way with the elephant hand puppet “Lilo-Lausch”.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
LeseFunken
“LeseFunken” strengthens children in their last year of nursery and in grade 1 through playful language and reading promotion. This lays the foundations for educational success and equal opportunities at an early age.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Perspectives Workshops
The project supports young people in developing their own plans for the future, accompanied by role models with similar life stories. This gives them the courage to determine their own destiny and provides a tangible path to independence.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Starter-project for the Transition Nursery- Primary School
The Starter Project prepares children from socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods for their school start through playful language and learning support, while simultaneously actively involving parents in the educational process. The programme takes place close to affected children’s homes at family primary school centres in Essen
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Hood Runners
“Hood Runners” – young people aged 16 to 27 help young people with a refugee background orientate themselves in their new living environment and find their feet.
Focus of foundation: International and intercultural understanding
First Aid for Children’s Souls
“First aid for children’s souls” strengthens refugees and socially disadvantaged children in Cologne through playful, non-verbal trauma management in sand play. In group and individual programmes, they gain self-confidence, social stability and a new joy for life.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Conviviendo – Ayuda para Cabanyal
Anti-aggression training for young people and the strengthening of parents’ educational skills for a non-violent family life.
Focus of foundation: Disaster relief
“Hello School”
“Hello School!” supports children from disadvantaged families in their transition to primary school – with two weeks of learning holidays full of play, encouragement and trust. This ensures a strong and joyful start to school.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Equal Opportunities in Education
“LifeLessons” brings committed citizens to primary schools in socially disadvantaged regions as LifeTeachers. In open discussions, they share their life and professional experiences and give children new ideas, perspectives and self-confidence.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
Experience Nature – Empower Children
The project “Experience nature – empower children”" enables children and young people between the ages of 6 and 16 from all social backgrounds to enjoy a wide range of nature experiences – regardless of their origin or income.
Focus of foundation: Equal opportunities
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
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