Submit Applications for The Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation’s Grant Program!

Deadline: 15 March 2018

The Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to support projects in the areas of environment, social, education and culture in Switzerland. The Foundation is a non-profit charitable foundation and is politically and religiously independent one.

Goals

Promote and strengthen social cohesion and equality in Switzerland and the integration and mutual understanding of the different language regions of the country,
Contribute to conservation and the development of values and the natural goods, moral and cultural fundamentals for the Swiss identity.

Program Theme

The Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation has defined a program theme for each of its four funding areas: Environment, Social, Education, Culture. It expresses the need for special action in these areas:

In the area of the environment, the program Theme Landscape Conservation:
- Focus Area
  - Preservation or restoration of natural and cultural landscapes
  - Stop the sprawl
  - Measures against landscape destruction
In the field of social issues the program Theme of childhood and youth integration:
- Focus Area
  - the social, cultural and educational integration of native and immigrant children and adolescents
  - the integration of young people in the work process
In the area of education the program theme of cohesion:
- Focus Area
  - Promoting understanding between the different language regions of Switzerland
  - Promoting the language skills of young people in the other national languages
  - Cultural exchange across the linguistic borders of Switzerland
In the field of culture the program topic cultural heritage:
- Focus Area
  - Securing of important monuments and art monuments (except ruin renovations)
  - Securing collections, libraries, artistic and literary estates