"Ageing with Tech" for our Society. In addition to access to new technologies, we are increasingly focusing on the digital engagement of older people and their active participation of responsibility in the digital transformation.

How can you make your own city more demography-resistant and age-friendly? Stadtlabor offers mayors and key players in public administration the opportunity to take part in a three-part series of workshops on the topics of demographic change and ageing. In a small and exclusive circle, the Stadtlabor centres on experts, good practice, networking and peer-to-peer exchange.

Third places promote open interaction and offer space for community activities and engagement – accessible to people of all ages. The Begegnungsorte project examines these open spaces through the Europe-wide Third Places Network and the Germany-wide Third Places Network. In addition, it provides practical model modules for third places for municipalities using the KörberHaus as an example.

The Körber Symposium on Demographic Change invites all those who bear responsibility for the issues of demographic change to be inspired to new ideas by national and international thought leaders and proven good practice projects. The project focuses on the opportunities of demographic change, and aims to contribute to ensuring that our communities will continue to be places worth living in in the future.

Must people adapt to technology, or do we adapt technology to people? A rapidly digitalising society needs citizens who can competently use the opportunities of progress and master its risks. This also applies to older people. With the “Logged in!” week, we make visible the initiatives and actors who are advancing the digitalisation of older people. Together with local partners in various towns and cities, people over 50 are invited to discover their enthusiasm for surfing, blogging or gaming, and to immerse themselves in the digital worlds of older age.

Improving society is possible at any age. With the Zugabe Prize, we honor founders 60plus every year. The award, which is endowed with 60,000 euros each, recognizes three individuals who have found solutions to the social challenges of our time using entrepreneurial means and successfully built up a company or social enterprise to do so.

Since 1981, we have awarded the annual Boy-Gobert Prize, endowed with EUR 10,000, to young, outstanding acting personalities at Hamburg theatres. The aim is to support them at the beginning of their careers.

The International Opera Studio offers young singers an opportunity to supplement and complete their training under the conditions of a theatre company. During the period of their two-year scholarship, the members participate in the opera productions of the Hamburg State Opera, and receive continuous, individual professional advice and support.

Laboratory for young theatre talent: Students from German-speaking directing colleges present their productions at Hamburg’s Thalia Gaußstraße Theatre. The festival is considered “probably the most important platform for young directors in Germany” (NDR Kultur), and it presents the diversity of artistic content and aesthetics of the theatre generation of the future. The festival is a joint project of the Thalia Theatre, the Körber-Stiftung and the Hamburg Theatre Academy under the patronage of the German Stage Association.

The Art of Music Education (TAOME) is a series of international specialist symposia on the future of concert halls. In cooperation with the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and accompanied by the European Concert Hall Organisation, the conferences at the KörberForum have established themselves since their launch in 2008 as a central discussion arena on educational issues in the European music business, and they initiate debates on the role of concert institutions in our society. You will find an overview of the previous symposia here.

The Days of Exile are a programme of audience-oriented events and encounters in Hamburg and other cities in Germany. It gives people in exile a platform, builds bridges between the present and the past and encourages dialogue and understanding between old and new citizens, thus contributing to better cohesion in the city.

The Engagierte Stadt ( Engaged City) is a network of 113 towns and cities in which engagement offices, volunteer exchanges and similar organisations organise and support the voluntary work of citizens. The sponsors exchange information among themselves, and identify common themes in order to strengthen the municipal infrastructure for commitment and participation in Germany.

What does working a journalist in exile mean? How is the German media landscape changing against the background of migration and globalisation? And what role does digitalisation play in this? The Exile Media Forum explores these questions.

“Making Germany better - with the future-proof city” brings together mayors, administrators, civil society and citizens to work together towards a sustainable and liveable future in towns and cities.

The increasingly harsh tone in society extends to the councils or assemblies of municipalities and cities. Councillors who experience assaults or verbal transgressions often feel left alone. The project "Respect in Municipal Council" is dedicated to improving the culture of discussion in municipal bodies. We want to initiate a process of self-understanding in the councils that will lead to a cross-party agreement (code, guidelines) for a good culture of discussion.

People who assume political responsibility for their community are increasingly becoming victims of insults, threats or attacks. And this is despite the fact that many of them work purely on a voluntary basis. The portal Stark im Amt (Strength for office-holders) offers concrete help to all municipal officials and elected representatives in Germany: Information, support services and tips on prevention as well as the study "More respect please".

Every autumn, Code Week offers a colourful programme of hands-on activities around tinkering and programming - all over Europe.

The Körber Start Hub offers an open arena for young entrepreneurs who want to improve society. At the Start Hub, they will find a comprehensive range of opportunities to learn together and to network and found their own social start-up.

The STEM networking centre is the umbrella organisation for extracurricular STEM education in Germany. It supports those involved in STEM education through networking and transfer offers to make even better educational offers for children and young people, and to address broader and more diverse target groups in the process. MINTvernetzt (STEMnetworked) is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and is implemented jointly by five partners.

STEM regions are regional networks to strengthen STEM education locally. With our qualification, training and networking offers, we support network coordinators in making STEM education in the regions even more effective and sustainable.

Bei Young Science Hamburg schmieden forschungsbegeisterte Schüler und Schülerinnen gemeinsam Ideen, entwickeln Forschungsfragen, und setzen ihre Projekte um. So wachsen sie zu einer Talent Community zusammen. Außerdem treffen sie Menschen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung, schnuppern in unterschiedliche Berufswelten. So schärfen sie im Sinne einer Talent Journey ihre Interessen in Naturwissenschaften und Technik. Dabei begleiten wir sie mit Events, Workshops, Vernetzung und Beratung.

New technologies and new generations raise new questions about history and call on us to renew our understanding of the past. Our eCommemoration programme opens up a space for historians, memory workers, digital pioneers and creative minds from across the globe to discuss new perspectives of participatory commemoration. We invite you to explore history and memory with us – in Video Games, Social Media, Extended Reality and cross-media formats.

EUSTORY promotes a multi-faceted approach to commemoration and cross-border engagement while strengthening a dialogue about fundamental questions of European history.

The Federal President’s History Competition is the largest historical research competition for young people in Germany. It aims to awaken interest among children and young people for their own history, and to promote independence and strengthen a sense of responsibility.

Historical project work offers unique learning and experience opportunities for children and young people. With the expertise and network from more than 45 years of the Federal President’s History Competition, we would like to strengthen historical project work in schools, and to already embed it in the training of history teachers.

In an age of growing political, national and religious divisions, historical orientation and reckoning with our past are central to dealing with current conflicts. The Körber History Forum focuses on the impact of the past on the politics of the present at a European and global level.

Since 1961 eminent international politicians and experts have met at the Bergedorf Round Table to discuss fundamental questions pertaining to German and European foreign and security policy in small and intimate groups.

Since its establishment in 2011, the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum has become the leading annual foreign policy gathering in Berlin. The Berlin Forum convenes high-ranking national and international politicians, government representatives, experts and journalists to discuss the foreign policy challenges for Germany and Europe.

The aim of our Körber Emerging Middle Powers Initiative (KEMP) is to promote dialogue between Germany and emerging middle powers. By means of an annual survey, the initiative also contributes to a deeper understanding of geopolitical perspectives in countries that belong to this grouping, such as Brazil, India, and South Africa. In addition, KEMP brings together experts and decision makers from those countries and other emerging middle powers with their German counterparts to contribute to their active exchange.

The Körber Network Foreign Policy comprises a select group of Berlin-based young foreign-policy professionals. Its members meet on a regular basis to discuss issues of German and European foreign policy with international decision-makers.

In the Körber Policy Game a small group of high-ranking international politicians, government officials, and experts discuss and analyze the interests of various foreign policy actors in the context of a fictional scenario. The Körber Policy Game is based on the idea of projecting current foreign and security policy trends into a future scenario – seeking to develop both a deeper understanding of the interests and priorities of the different players and possible policy options.

The Munich Young Leaders (MYL) network is a joint project of Körber-Stiftung and the Munich Security Conference (MSC) that provides a forum for future decision-makers to strengthen their international networks and inspire new thinking in foreign and security policy.

High-ranking speakers, among them heads of state, foreign ministers and other influential politicians from Europe, Asia, the Middle and Near East, and the United States, as well as leaders of international organizations, discuss current political issues with a select circle of foreign and security policymakers.

Every year we present the German Thesis Award to the best of young German PhDs.

The Hamburg Science Summit brings together leading experts from across Europe to discuss how science and innovation can contribute to a common European future. Driven by the vision of a self-determined and sustainable Europe, it gathers decision-makers from science, business, politics and NGOs. The Summit aims to promote the integration of the European science and innovation landscape as a key to meeting the challenges of our time. The annual conference is organised by the Körber-Stiftung and the Ministry of Science in Hamburg.

Every year, Hamburg Horizons brings together top-class scientists with experts from politics, business, culture and the Hamburg public. The aim is an open exchange on topics in whose scientific study society has a special interest. The conference takes place in cooperation with the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) and the University of Hamburg, which uses funds from the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments for this purpose.

Awarded annually, the Körber European Science Prize honours a distinguished scientist actively conducting research in the fields of either Life Sciences or Physical Sciences in Europe. With prize money totalling €1,000,000, we strive to support outstanding scientists in their endeavours and promote innovative research with future promise.