Axel Springer Stiftung

The Axel Springer Foundation is a non-profit funding foundation based in Berlin. It exclusively and directly pursues scientific, charitable, and other non-profit purposes both domestically and internationally. Its focus areas include the promotion of science—particularly history and communication sciences—publication subsidies for outstandingly rated dissertations in fields such as German-Jewish history, National Socialism, media history, and transatlantic relations, as well as support for multi-day memorial site and Israel excursions, especially for groups of school students, trainees, and university students. Charitably, the foundation supports needy former journalists and members of artistic professions. Other non-profit purposes include youth and educational work, care for those politically, racially, or religiously persecuted, promotion of art and culture, as well as reconciliation between Jews and Germans.

The Axel Springer Foundation is committed to promoting scientific research and publications on history, journalism, and communication, providing support to minorities and persecuted individuals, and strengthening cultural and interpersonal understanding. It believes in the power of education, remembrance, and exchange to reinforce democratic values and deepen transnational relations.

Funding is provided for groups of pupils, trainees, and students – particularly for memorial site and Israel excursions; historians, political scientists, and literary scholars – primarily for publication subsidies for dissertations; schools, vocational schools, universities, associations, and church congregations as applicants for project funding; needy former journalists and members of artistic professions in old age; as well as initiatives and institutions supporting politically or racially persecuted persons, refugees, and promoting youth and cultural work.