EQUA-Stiftung
About the funder
The non-profit EQUA Foundation was established in 2001 to expand knowledge about family businesses and entrepreneurial families by promoting research, exchange of experience, and practical offerings. It supports chairs, university institutes, and research projects interdisciplinarily with financial resources, scholarships, and publication subsidies. Additionally, it develops innovative digital tools, offers workshops, facilitation, and confidential consulting for entrepreneurial families. Over more than 20 years, the foundation has built a network of scholars, experts, and practitioners to support family businesses in a practical and future-oriented manner. It funds EQUA Foundation chairs, awards sponsorships starting at €100 per month, and supports individual research projects and long-term studies.
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Mission & Vision
The EQUA Foundation is committed to securing family businesses as the most economically significant form of enterprise across generations. Our goal is to provide well-founded scientific insights, practice-oriented offerings, and a trusted network so that entrepreneurial families can assume responsibility, overcome challenges, and successfully develop their businesses. In doing so, we operate as a non-profit, independent, and interdisciplinary organization.
Target groups
Our funding programs and offerings are aimed at entrepreneurial families and successor generations in family businesses, researchers studying family businesses (scholars, doctoral candidates), university institutes and chairs specializing in family business, practitioners, consultants, and multipliers who support family businesses, as well as donors and patrons who wish to specifically support research scholarships.