Enactus is one of the world’s largest international student organisations. It wants to make the world a better place by promoting sustainability through social and environmental projects.
A pilot project in the Kenyan village of Kinakoni investigated the causes of hunger – and developed solutions together with founders from Nairobi’s young start-up scene.
The project focuses on pupils in Dortmund who take an interest in technical matters, giving them an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and apply their creative potential in the fields of…
With its constantly rotating presentations spanning a wide variety of artistic genres, the Dortmunder Kunstverein e.V. has become an established platform for contemporary art. The Wilo-Foundation has…
The "TU Start-Up Award" at TU Dortmund University is a platform where teams of founders can pitch their innovations to an interested audience and a jury of experts.
By working together, foundations can strengthen social cohesion in their city and region even more successfuly, especially in the densely populated Ruhr metropolitan area. This is the underlying idea…
Community engagement of foundations in Dortmund and the Dortmund region plays a crucial role and builds a strong community spirit. More than 150 foundations are based in the Dortmund region, with over…
Assuming responsibility for the common good is the guiding principle of our social engagement. Especially in times where societies are facing major challenges, solidarity and social cohesion are…
To nurture the talents of young people, the Wilo-Foundation is supporting the RuhrTalente scholarship programme for pupils in the Ruhr area. Under the scholarship, up to 10 pupils from Dortmund are…
As part of its regional responsibility for young people in Dortmund, the Wilo-Foundation also supports encounters that promote international understanding. In this context the foundation provides…
How do we want to experience music? From which new and different angles can we rediscover a work? How can the space and community in which we listen to music become part of the performance? The…
The central aim of the education programme is to give socially disadvantaged young girls access to quality general education at state schools and ensure that these girls attend school for a period of…
Drinking water supply was improved significantly for around 800 people in Columbia by installing reliable filtration technology for drinking water purification and a corresponding storage and piping…
The Tal-Al-Mantah wastewater treatment plant is the first solar-powered plant in this sunny region and thus a flagship project for local communities and for officials and decision-makers in local and…
Many children in the communities of Mpumalanga Province in South Africa depend on the meals they get in primary schools and childcare centres. But climate change and high population density are…
Up until today, the Wilo-Foundation has sponsored more than 1,100 scholarships, mainly in the Ruhr area and in Upper Franconia. The makes the foundation one of the largest sponsors of the Germany…
The aim of the "SPORE (Smart SPOnge REgion) research project" is to develop a climate adaptation concept focusing on ways for dealing with extreme weather events using digital systems. The concept is…
With our incentive awards, we want to support exceptionally gifted scholarship holders of the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund e.V. and help them develop their musical careers. Some of the scholarship…
Thanks to its founding director Xin Peng Wang, the Ballett Dortmund has developed into a company with an unmistakable artistic profile in recent years, transforming the Westphalian city of Dortmund…
Community music is all about making music together. The idea is to give all people, regardless of their musical talent or skills, their age, sex, physical condition or other characteristics, access to…
Cedarburg is getting ready for the future: maker spaces, virtual reality and multimedia teaching concepts enable students and teachers to learn new skills that benefit their future.
Water scarcity is one of the most pressing problems for the 20 villages located in Mtae division in Lushoto district, Tanzania. Together with the Mtae Water Users Association (MWUA), several necessary…
The aim of the “ManziMakers” programme is to pave the way for social entrepreneurship for WASH solutions in Africa and the development of sustainable solutions.
Assuming responsibility for the common good is the guiding principle of our work. Especially in times where societies are facing major challenges, solidarity and social cohesion are vital. Worldwide,…
The lack of adequate sanitation and hygiene facilities severely affected the health of pupils at the schools of Bilaa, a community in western Ethiopia, and disrupted normal learning and teaching…
The "Lab in a Bag", or teaching lab on water, is a complementary teaching concept for experience-based university teaching in hydraulics, hydraulic engineering and urban water management applied in…
The TU Campus, an affiliated institute of Berlin Technical University, has been offering master’s programmes in the thematic field of “city and energy” since 2012. Now a second real lab is being…
As part of the Initial Spark series, renowned scientists from all over the world, including several Nobel Prize laureates, are invited to TU Dortmund University.
As part of its efforts to promote academic talents, the Wilo-Foundation (here: as a trustee of the WILO-Stiftung) has been supporting the "TANDEM scholarship programme" of Deutsche…
The Science Master Plan Dortmund was launched in 2021 and brings together stakeholders from the fields of science, business, culture, politics, civil society and administration who work together…
The international challenge for students, which is hosted by DWA, brings together water engineering talents from all over the world and gives them an unique opportunity to build networks with leading…
Assuming responsibility for the common good is the guiding principle of our social engagement. Especially in times where societies are facing major challenges, solidarity and social cohesion are…
One of the outcomes of a digital learning project in the Dortmund-based children’s museum mondo mio! was the organisation of five study trips that allowed children and youth to gain coding experience…
The project aimed to provide local families with access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and to provide them with training on hygiene standards and the sustainable use of water.
For the approximately 5,000 inhabitants of the village of Klologo, access to clean drinking water was an unattainable dream for a long time. But this has changed now, thanks to a solar-powered well…
Under the “Water for Lives” programme, which was launched in 2013, cisterns are built in socially disadvantaged communities to give families direct access to water. The works are carried out with the…
Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia is the biggest lake in Southeast Asia. However, its inhabitants were lacking access to safe drinking water. Waste disposal was another problem: plastic and other waste were…
Natural lakes and their watersheds, and also artificial lakes, are among the most vulnerable habitats, including in Germany. The "Living Lakes Network Germany" provides a platform for exchanging…
The aim of the cooperation project with the Africa Sand Dam Foundation (ASDF) was to work with self-help groups and find ways to ensure water supply all year round, providing drinking water supply for…
The community of N’diob in Senegal has a green mission and wants to become a self-sufficient organic agricultural community that is independent of imports. Renewable energy solutions, such as the…
Since 2022, the Wilo-Foundation has been helping children’s and youth choirs to broaden their horizon by making financial contributions for their concert tours abroad as part of the Foundation’s…
As part of its efforts to promote culture, the Wilo-Foundation supports concerts of internationally renowned orchestras and famous conductors and soloists at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
The Wilo-Foundation supported the choirs of the CHORAKADEMIE am Konzerthaus Dortmund e.V. on various trips abroad to ensure that as many young children as possible could participate in these tours.
As part of its activities to empower young talents and promote STEM subjects, the Wilo-Foundation supported the International WRO Final 2022 in Dortmund, when the international robot competition for…
Building something with Lego, acquiring media skills using an iPad, and gathering first experience as a coder? For students participating in the robotics group at Gilden-Europa-Grundschule, a primary…
The prevention-focused education programme is based on the motto “learn smart, stay motivated” and targets socially disadvantaged pupils from grades 1 to 6 at primary schools in Dortmund, which are…
The Wilo-Foundation, as a partner foundation, supported the “opera in concert series” at Konzerthaus Dortmund for a period of eight years, further enhancing the profile of the concert hall.
The Dutch non-profit organisation JINC is commited to building a society in which a child’s background does not determine their future; a society in which every child gets a fair chance for their…
The Pacemaker Initiative was a joint initiative between the non-profit association EDUCATION Y e.V. and the education provider Teach First Deutschland. Together with IMAP GmbH, it supported schools in…
Digital media must be an integral part of teaching and the school environment in order to prepare students well for a life in the digital world. The COVID-19 pandemic made it very clear that schools…
General technical education ideally starts at a young age. Children usually discover their passion for technical subjects at school, which also influences their career choice later in life.
KiTZ.do in Dortmund is an out-of-school learning space for children from kindergarten groups where they can experiment and do research even before they enter school.
The project "CoBiKe 4.0" gives pupils and apprentices aged 14 to 25 the opportunity to participate in practice-oriented and technology-focused work camps and, in this way, enables them to learn more…
The KinderUni (children’s university) in Dortmund was established in 2004. It sends out the message that university researchers and lecturers are more and more open to the society around them and keen…
On the occasion of the new staging of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen” at Oper Dortmund, the opera festival “Wagner-Kosmos” takes place annually with an accompanying science symposium. Here,…
The education programme in the area of performing arts and new media is intended to connect young artists from Europe and South America and foster cross-disciplinary and new digital production formats…
As an international pilot project, the Academy for Theatre and Digitality provides a space for digital innovation, artistic research and technology-oriented education and training. Every year,…
The "Emerging Artists Dortmund festival" was launched in 2015 with financial support of the Wilo-Foundation. The goal of the biennal is to promote young artists living in the urban area of Dortmund…
The “orchestra in residence” format of the world-famous London Symphony Orchestra gave the audience of the Konzerthaus Dortmund an opportunity to experience star conductors and world-class music…
Knowing what’s going on – this is the motto in our support for science projects in the fields of water, environment and technology. Our focus is on applied science and the exchange of scientific…
International field study projects address global challenges and issues of spatial planning and open up opportunities for cooperation with planning practitioners.
Since 2018, the Wilo-Foundation has been supporting the postgraduate master’s programme “Water Engineering” at TU Berlin Campus El Gouna in Egypt, a satellite campus of Technische Universität Berlin.
The Wilo-Foundation gives selected young scientists from abroad the possibility to further develop their skills by providing them with a full scholarship for the “International Master of Science in…
The Science Guide is based at the Chair of Science Journalism at TU Dortmund University. Students from Germany and France collect research stories from all over Europe – on their investigations with…
The conference in Murun, initiated in 2018, fosters the exchange of knowledge on environmental issues, water and sanitation and sustainable tourism in Mongolia.
As part of the university competition of the VDI (Association of German Engineers) students of architecture, civil engineering, facility management and related courses of study have the opportunity to…
In the United States, promoting the education of young people in STEM subjects is regarded as important. That is why Thomas University in the state of Georgia, United States developed an education…
The aim of the Academy is to promote collaboration between European architecture students and teachers and to expand the knowledge of junior scholars in the fields of urban development, urban…
In line with its mission to promote young talents and STEM subjects, the Wilo-Foundation – together with WILO SE and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (DASA) – is a sponsor of…
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