In the sciences, we promote laser technology. In culture, our focus is on supporting individual institutions and projects in the areas “classical music” and “spoken language and literature”. Another key issue involves the process of reappraising the crimes committed during the Nazi dictatorship. The “relations between different peoples and democracy” are a further area of concern, which is why we support various fellowship programs, among other projects. Many of our church-related grants are approved for “Diakoniekirchen”, which are Protestant churches that run social welfare programs. At the heart of our social commitment is the promotion of disadvantaged persons who exist on the fringes of society.

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We have also initiated a number of our own operational projects such as the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis and Zukunftspreis, the Comicbuchpreis and the Berthold Leibinger initiative “Zeit für Zukunft” in order to be actively involved in social and scientific developments.