Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation: Promoting and Strengthening Social Cohesion and Equality in Switzerland

Deadline: 15 September 2017

The Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to promote 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.

The foundation arises, as part of its statutory purpose, the aim to

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
  - The preservation or restoration of natural and cultural landscapes
  - The uncontrolled expansion arrest
  - The actions against the destruction of the landscape
In the field of social issues the program Theme of childhood and youth integration:
- Focus Area
  - social integration, cultural and training of children and young natives and immigrants
  - Bringing young people into work
In the area of education the program theme of cohesion:
- Focus Area
  - Promotion of understanding between the different linguistic regions of Switzerland
  - Promotion of language skills of young people in the other national languages
  - Cultural exchange across language boundaries of Switzerland
In the field of culture the program topic cultural heritage:
- Focus Area
  - Storage of important architectural and artistic monuments (no renovations of ruins)
  - Preservation of collections, libraries, artistic and cultural legacies