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

Deadline: 15 December 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 conservation or restoration of natural and cultural landscapes
  - The arrest of uncontrolled expansion
  - Interventions against the destruction of the landscape
In the field of social issues the program Theme of childhood and youth integration:
- Focus Area
  - the social, cultural and educational integration of children and young people and immigrants
  - the integration of young people into the world of work
In the area of education the program theme of cohesion:
- Focus Area
  - Promotion of understanding between the various language regions of Switzerland
  - Promoting the language skills of young people in other national languages
  - Cultural exchange beyond the linguistic boundaries of Switzerland
In the field of culture the program topic cultural heritage:
- Focus Area
  - Conservation of important architectural and artistic monuments (without restoration of ruins)
  - Preservation of collections, libraries, artistic and cultural legacies