Why are algorithms biased? Should states outsource public services to AI technologies? How can we ensure that AI serves the people? And which actions should decision-makers take to make that happen? Dive into the AI 2040 interactive website and discover artefacts from the future and policy recommendations for the global governance of AI!

The Amal, Hamburg! news service informs people in Hamburg in Arabic and Persian about the cultural, political and social life of the Hanseatic city.

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 most important 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.

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.

How can you make your own city demographically stable and age-friendly? The City Lab offers mayors and key players in the administration of demographic change and ageing an opportunity to participate in a three-part workshop series. In a small and exclusive circle, the City Lab focuses on experts, good practice, networking and collegial exchange.

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

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.

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 and Extended Reality.

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.

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

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.

Bringing the issue of exile onto the theatre stage, facilitating a broader public access to innovative artistic formats is the goal of the project Exile Today – Residencies for Artistic Production. Since 2021, together with the cultural forum Kampnagel Hamburg we have been awarding residencies for theatre, performance or dance projects that focus on the issue of exile.

With the Age & City Expedition, we invite you to explore age-friendliness beyond national borders. Mayors and demographers from municipal administrations travel to European towns and cities to learn about age strategies and age-friendly practices.

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.

Parents are faced with the task of guiding their children in a world that is changing at breakneck speed and becoming increasingly complex. With our annual representative parent survey, we want to make their concerns, wishes and ideas visible and help ensure that they are heard.

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

The Global University Leaders Council Hamburg brings the presidents of leading universities from all over the world together in Hamburg. The central concern is to consciously shape the process of global university development. The Council is a joint initiative of the German Rectors’ Conference, the Körber-Stiftung and the University of 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.

The STEMforum is a regional network to strengthen STEM education in the Hanseatic city and metropolitan region of Hamburg. It networks more than 70 initiatives, projects and extracurricular places of learning, and supports educational practice through communication and event offers to inspire children and young people for STEM.

The Student Research Centre (SRC) is the place in Hamburg where young people with an appetite for STEMcan experiment and do their own research. We support the Hamburg SRC to inspire young people about science and technology, and to promote talents. In joint events for teachers, we strengthen the networking of the Hamburg SRC in the school and extracurricular educational landscape.

“Talking to one another, not about each other” – the Intergenerational Workshop Bergedorf adds “Making a difference together” to this quote from our founder. Because we are convinced that good ideas arise from cooperation between different people of all generations and cultures, and that there is great potential to make society better.

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.

Experiments, looking at colours and shapes, perceiving the world in detail - STEM and art have all this in common. Together with the culture agents, we bring exciting projects to Hamburg schools.

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.

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.

In the Körber Future Dialogue, we discuss with citizens how they want to live with new technologies. In discussion rounds and interviews, we find out what they hope for from concrete innovations and what limits they would set. We use these insights to continue the dialogue on an equal footing with a broader public.

As part of the Körber Global Leaders Dialogue, heads of state and government give programmatic foreign policy speeches and then take questions from the audience.

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.

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 Resonance Ensemble and the Körber-Stiftung are jointly developing three new concert projects. The aim is to create a newly-developed, transcultural music repertoire that will appeal to the audience of a modern urban society and arouse their curiosity. Each of the three projects consists of an evening-long concert programme in which various musical styles from different cultural regions are combined.

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.

Over the course of a year, the Körber Strategic Stability Initiative regularly brought together a fixed circle of experts from China, Russia, the USA and Europe to develop options for action for current arms-control challenges. The Körber Strategic Stability Initiative was launched together with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH).

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.

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 KörberHaus (Körber House) is a place for all generations and cultures. Together with the Bergedorf district office and eight other partners, we create a new meeting place in Hamburg-Bergedorf for greater togetherness and a vibrant civil society. By holding events at our new location, we bring people together, stimulate debates and promote voluntary involvement. And at the KörberHaus, we develop our operational projects in the areas of ageing and demography, which have a nationwide impact.

Together with the Hamburg Adult Education Centre, we organise the “Learning and more” educational programme for the over-sixties. It is not about the final certificate, but about learning for life - with new knowledge, in a small circle, with time for conversations and being together.

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.

“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 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.

A new inter-generational music project at the KörberHaus in Bergedorf: In this music education project, participants work with the Bremen composer Mark Scheibe to create melodies and texts inspired by their own stories on the theme of “encounter”.

The NAT - Science & Technology Initiative supports STEM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education in Hamburg schools. Offers from science and business illustrate to pupils the practical and future relevance of maths, physics, chemistry and computer science. Laboratory days and company visits strengthen their interest in STEM. Together with partners from science and administration, we advise and promote the work of NAT.

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.

How can we use data together to enable participatory and sustainable living in a city? Together with the “Code for Hamburg”, we invite you to the Open City Forum to discuss this question. The Forum is the largest specialist conference for Open Data and Open Government in Germany.

Good things happen where people come together and tackle problems as a team. The 50 m² Open Space in the KörberHaus offers a place of encounters and opportunities for everyone who wants to take responsibility and make Bergedorf a better place.

Connecting actors, advancing concrete initiatives and, in doing so, strengthening the multilateral order – these are the objectives of the Paris Peace Forum. Since 2018, the forum offers a platform for several thousands of actors from politics, economy, and society that champion transnational cooperation for tackling global challenges. As a founding member, we actively participate in the design and implementation of the Forum and its annual conference.

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.

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.

We provide space for non-profit organisations. Whether it’s a club workshop, a debate or a benefit concert - in the KörberHaus we offer a professional theatre stage of almost 1,000 square metres, the Körber Hall with its high-quality equipment, and other flexibly-usable event spaces. Schools, sports clubs, cultural associations, aid services and migrant communities: You are all welcome to enrich the KörberHaus with your ideas.

With the Special Project Zukunft MEMORIAL, Körber-Stiftung supports its partner MEMORIAL International, which was liquidated in Russia in 2022, in establishing a new organization in German exile.

The STEM Quality Initiative aims to support STEM initiatives in developing the quality of their programmes, and in this way to make STEM education even better.

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.

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".

Democracy is more than voting. Democracy means involving people in decision-making, including their points of view and harnessing their ideas for the common good. How can these basic principles contribute to the further development of our political system today, and safely steer it through current and future crises? We address these questions in the “Strengthening Democracy” study series with Julian Nida-Rümelin.

TechnikRadar (Technology Radar) investigates what Germans think about technology. This long-term research project provides well-founded momentum for public debate on the significance, design and regulation of technical innovations.

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 Berlin Pulse” is our annual foreign policy publication. It juxtaposes contributions by high-ranking international authors with a public opinion survey on the foreign policy views of the German population.

What is the meaning of a carpet in the middle of the city? Which values and cultural traditions does it represent? The Stone Oriental Carpet by Frank Raendchen, which was created in the summer of 2019 as a new work of art on the Wilhelminenbrücke in the HafenCity Hamburg, creates a reason to pause in passing and to reflect on the place.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks a historical turning point. Looking ahead, European countries will have to come up with a new vision of how the future European security order should look like. Which norms and rules should underpin it? What roles will there be for organisations like the EU, NATO, or the OSCE? In finding answers to these questions, France, Poland, and Germanywill have a significant role to play. For this purpose, we initiated the Weimar Task Force on the European Security Order in February 2022.

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.