Promotion of Education and Science for a Sustainable Economy

The Canopus Foundation supports non-profit organizations and social enterprises nationwide in an early stage of development that operate in the fields of education, science, and research. The aim of these continuously fundable grants is to broaden the discourse in economic sciences and to institutionalize a more intensive engagement with sustainable economics. Projects that adopt plural economic teaching approaches and develop new teaching and learning formats are particularly welcomed. The foundation places great value on a high level of innovation as well as relevance to a sustainable economy and evaluates funding based on the suitability to the early-stage character of the applicants.

Focused on creating spaces for thinking and learning, this funding line supports projects that link interdisciplinary perspectives and thereby sharpen the view of the societal prerequisites for a future-proof economic order. Applicants must demonstrate that their initiative is situated in the area of education, science, or research related to sustainable economics and contributes to the pluralization of economic approaches. With this, the Canopus Foundation places an emphasis on supporting emerging initiatives that, with exciting concepts and methods, challenge the traditional academic system and provide impulses for sustainable change.