Our sister foundation, the Spore Initiative, has been awarded an architecture prize for the second time. On Friday, January 31, the building designed by AFF Architekten received the DAM Prize 2025 from the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.

The current study »Angegriffen & alleingelassen« (Attacked & Abandoned) by our Grantee HateAid highlights the impact of digital violence on politically engaged individuals — and what this could mean for the upcoming federal election.

Acker e.V. has been a new Grantee of the Schöpflin Foundation since 2025. The System Change Alliance, launched by Acker e.V., aims to ensure that every child in Germany has the opportunity to grow their own vegetables by 2030, so that they can experience the growth and value creation process of food at first hand.

The Media Forward Fund awards grants to strengthen public interest journalism in the DACH region. The jury has now selected the first four media organisoations.

At the beginning of 2025, Hans Schöpflin will initiate the generational transition within the Schöpflin Foundation. In a joint interview, Hans Schöpflin and his daughter Lisl Schöpflin explain the future role of the family in the foundation and what the changes mean for them.

The Association of German Architects in Berlin has honoured the building ensemble of the two institutions Publix and Spore Initiative with a first prize.

Three young journalistic projects from Germany and Switzerland have been awarded the 2024/2025 Grow Scholarship by Netzwerk Recherche and the Schöpflin Foundation. The scholarship honours media projects that promote non-profit and public-interest journalism and media diversity.

The Kremlin is currently expanding its digital censorship. One of the most important goals: to block independent Russian media abroad. The JX Fund has now summarized the situation of these media in the study “Locking Down the Windows”.

The organisation AlgorithmWatch, a funding partner of the foundation since 2019, has been awarded the 2024 Federal Consumer Protection Prize. In this interview, Matthias Spielkamp, the NGO's executive director, explains where artificial intelligence can disadvantage people in their daily lives – and why the market power of the big tech companies can be dangerous for democracy.

Publix is celebrating its opening with a conference, a welcoming event and an open house. The prelude to this was a press conference, at which the new establishment's mission was presented.

Non-profit organizations may express criticism of the policies of parties, even if they receive government funding. That is the central finding of a new report.

Netzwerk Recherche and the Schöpflin Foundation open applications both for the Grow project Scholarships for non-profit journalism and for the Greenhouse Fellowship 2024.