http://www.siemens-stiftung.org/ Presse de http://www.siemens-stiftung.org/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.siemens-stiftung.org/ 18 16 Presse TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 14 May 2013 10:33:00 +0200 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Rolf-Huber-discusses-foundations-international-commitment.html?no_cache=1&cHash=00494cfdc78abbd20b3d158bf33e73e9 Growing global inequality, climate change, educational deprivation – many current and future... Time: May 15, 2013, 1:15 – 3 p.m. Here you can find more information on the 2013 German Foundation Congress (German only).]]> Foundation Wed, 08 May 2013 09:41:00 +0200 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Drinking-water-and-education-generate-income.html?no_cache=1&cHash=c0ac81b7dcc8c95446417916d78562ca The Siemens Stiftung is supporting drinking water projects in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Kenya...

Bolivia, La Paz drainage basin, community of Achocalla: A water kiosk has provided the community here with clean drinking water since the beginning of the year. To help the overall economic situation, the Siemens Stiftung has supported the production of clay filters that can now be used at the household level.

• Kenya: Water kiosks ensure access to clean drinking water in five villages around Thika. Other stations are to be built in the coming year in partnership with the SkyJuice Foundation.

• Colombia: Our Colombian partner foundation Siemens Fundación Colombia has been working with the local NGO Fundación EPM on supplying water to some 40 schools. 

• Peru: The Siemens Stiftung has worked alongside the “Instituto para una Alternativa Agraria - IAA” on the Sierra Productiva project to ensure sustainable development of the indigenous rural population. Water is the key resource here: it is essential that drinking water be stored, allocated, and used efficiently.

• The Siemens Stiftung media portal is currently updating its teaching materials on drinking water and humanitarian aid, which are available in English, German, and Spanish to assist teachers with their classroom presentations.

• The Siemens Stiftung projects are also represented at the UN Global Compact’s Water Action Hub.

Our partner organizations SkyJuice Foundation
Swisscontact Bolivia (in Spanish)
IAA (in Spanish)
Siemens Fundación Colombia (in Spanish) Further information on World Water Day Siemens Stiftung
ENCOURAGE. empowering people. The Siemens Stiftung wants to empower people to actively address today’s social challenges and is dedicated to the values of Werner von Siemens. Together with cooperation partners, the foundation designs and implements local and international projects with the aim to promote individual responsibility and self-initiative. The foundation is committed to enlarging basic services and social entrepreneurship, promoting education and strengthening of culture. The Siemens Stiftung pursues an integrative approach and stands for responsible, impact-oriented and innovative project work. ]]> Basic Needs & Social Entrepreneurship Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:00:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/The-winners-of-the-2013-student-competition-are-named.html?no_cache=1&cHash=844d42eeae69c1145417bd3af1566343 The winners of this year’s student competition in mathematics, natural science and technology were... Marion Kreins (First Place/ St. Michael-Gymnasium, Bad Münstereifel/ Topic: Nitrogen stabilizers), Jonas Engelhard (Second Place/ Paul-Pfinzing-Gymnasium, Hersbruck/ Topic: Increasing efficiency of water treatment plants through sedimentation measurement) and Moritz Gutsch (Third Place/ St.-Antonius-Gymnasium, Lüdinghausen/ Topic: Influence of number of blades, blade profile, rotor diameter and onflow conditions on the speed & efficiency of an H-Darrieus rotor). Nils Hellmann (Pamina-Gymnasium, Herxheim/ Topic: Fight the silent electricity guzzlers: mobile phone charger with real 0-watt standby power consumption) won the special prize. All prize money can only be used to finance the students’ education. In addition to the students, the faculty mentors also receive cash prizes for their departments in their schools. In 2014 the Siemens Stiftung will once again seek out young people with their ideas for meeting the challenge of transforming the energy mix. About the student competition
The annual Siemens Stiftung student competition in math, science and tech-nology is open to upper-level secondary grade levels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and at German schools elsewhere in Europe. The competition gives the young students an opportunity to become actively involved in current social policy challenges. The Siemens Stiftung has partnered with the esteemed universities RWTH Aachen, TU Berlin and TU Munich to ensure the scientific quality of project submissions. Another key concern is that the participants receive long-term support. The Siemens Stiftung helps the talented young students define their own future through earmarked prize money, information seminars at the partner universities and tutors who provide individual college counseling. As of 2011, the Siemens Stiftung student competition is also a member of Germany’s National Consortium of Student Competitions (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der bundesweiten Schülerwettbewerbe), and has been officially recommended by Germany’s Conference of State Education Ministers since 2012.


About the Siemens Stiftung
ENCOURAGE. empowering people. The Siemens Stiftung wants to empower people to actively address today’s social challenges and is dedicated to the values of Werner von Siemens. Together with partners, the foundation designs and implements local and international projects with the aim of promoting individual responsibility and self-initiative. The foundation is committed to enlarging basic services and social entrepreneurship, promoting education and strengthening of culture. The Siemens Stiftung pursues an integrative approach and stands for responsible, impact-oriented and innovative project work. ]]> Education Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:59:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Siemens-Stiftung-media-portal-strengthens-vocational-training-in-Middle-East-and-North-Africa-New-p.html?no_cache=1&cHash=fcfad88b660c5957856eae2bfcba2ce8 The Siemens Stiftung has a new education partner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale... Expanded media library through metadata transfer
Metadata transfer makes it possible to search the media portal content through the TVET Portal. The Siemens Stiftung shares only the descriptions of the media (metadata); the media themselves remain on the Siemens Stiftung servers. The metadata include such information as the title, content description, classroom subjects, class levels, copyright information, and keywords based on content and educational criteria. Users who find media through the TVET Portal are directed to the media portal, where the media are available for free download.]]> Education Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:02:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Music-in-Africa-Information-on-the-project-now-accessible-online.html?no_cache=1&cHash=d0d858e490d397c969d57dbf3dd2d32e A newly established information page www.themusicinafricaproject.net keeps you up-to-date on the... www.themusicinafricaproject.net website, which can be accessed as of now, presents both the project and the team working on it, reports on workshops, meetings and the necessary exchange of information, calls on interested parties to make their own input, offers an exchange of ideas via social online networks and both documents and illustrates the emergence of an internet platform for information on African music, a facility which is to go online at the end of 2013. In addition, the page will be used in the near future to gather essential basic data on institutions and artists so as to establish an Directory for musicinafrica.net. The transparency of this access site makes it possible to approach and involve the extremely wide variety of cultural scenes and cultural infrastructures that exist across Africa in the development of the internet platform – and to arouse interest at this early stage of the project.]]> Culture Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:03:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/empowering-people-Award-800-inventors-from-over-90-countries-submit-technical-inventions-t.html?no_cache=1&cHash=e54b71b66d64db90834c1f4b72097bf2 A total of 200,000 Euros in prize money will be awarded to the best technical solutions. An... www.empowering-people-award.siemens-stiftung.org.

]]> Basic Needs & Social Entrepreneurship Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:40:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Translate-to-English-didacta-2013-Die-Siemens-Stiftung-unterstuetzt-Lehr-und-Erziehungskraefte.html?no_cache=1&cHash=d056b44822a89ac5bcb3481f29b51729 Daily live presentations by teachers for teachers at the Siemens Stiftung booth “Promoting STEM... Broad STEM portfolio for education professionals
The Siemens Stiftung seeks to generate greater interest in science and technology among young students and keep this interest alive from kindergarten to graduation. The program was developed by educators and focuses on preschool, primary and secondary school teachers. With a diverse methodological approach and broad portfolio of classroom-ready materials, the foundation is helping to protect and improve the quality of education. Experimento – an educational project with modules for preschools, primary schools, and secondary schools – seeks to illustrate scientific relationships through the principle of discovery-based learning. The project supports teachers with a diverse, curriculum-oriented selection of experiments relating to energy, the environment, and health. The primary project components are experimentation materials with instructions and a teacher training program. Experimento consists of three progressive modules that accompany students from preschool through secondary school. Experimento | 4+ and Experimento | 10+ are already in the pilot phase. The third module, Experimento | 8+ for 8- to 12-year-olds, will be unveiled at didacta. The media portal offers primary and secondary school teachers access to some 4,000 teaching materials at no cost. The media bring real-world themes to the classroom in the form of content packages for interactive whiteboards, worksheets, and videos on scientific, technical, social, and cultural topics. They can be presented using whiteboards, video projectors, or computers – or simply printed out. The Siemens Stiftung booth at didacta 2013 will feature new media such as worksheets for teaching science to non-native speakers and interactive whiteboard content on topics such as tropical rainforests, symmetry, and air. Language learning software for interactive German and English instruction
Language comprehension and the ability to express oneself are the foundation for acquiring knowledge – including STEM education. KIKUS digital, a joint project of the Siemens Stiftung and the Center for Multilingualism in Early Childhood, is designed especially for teaching language with the help of computers and whiteboards. The language learning software uses KIKUS picture cards to help preschool and primary school teachers present vocabulary exercises, grammar, and linguistic patterns in a playful environment. Visit the booth for daily live presentations of both the German and English versions and other new features of KIKUS digital. Presentations at the Siemens Stiftung booth (Hall 6, Booth C-062) Experimento: Daily, 2–2:30 p.m.: presentation of selected experiments for primary and secondary schools on the subjects of energy and health. Media portal: Daily, 10:30–11:00 a.m.: presentation of interactive whiteboard content for primary and secondary schools on the subjects of rainforests and air. KIKUS digital: Daily, 3:30–4:00 p.m.: presentation of whiteboard exercises on vocabulary, grammar, and linguistic patterns for primary schools. The presentation and live sessions are in German language.]]> Education Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:27:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Young-Soloists-Concert-Series-opens-on-15-January-2013.html?no_cache=1&cHash=58df317ce5085925c643c67e463c8ed8 The Young Soloists concert series offers an unusual forum for encounters with contemporary music:... Tuesday, 15 January 2013, 5.30 p.m., Sophiensaal, Sophienstraße 6, Munich Viola, cello, double-bass
Katharina Henke, viola; Johannes König, cello; Noam Massarik, double-bass. Works by
Nicolaus A. Huber (*1939): „Trio mit Stabpandeira“ (1983).
Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008): „Aus dem Nachlass“: Sechzehn Stücke für Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabass (1981-1986).
World premiere by Xiaoliang Zhou (*1988): „Konversation zwischen Viola, Cello und Kontrabass“ für Trio Basso (2012).
Composition class Prof. Isabel Mundry Nicolaus A. Huber’s "Trio mit Stabpandeira" ("Trio with Stabpandeira") is a study of rhythm, of metre, and of sequential and chain formations, while Mauricio Kagel’s "Aus dem Nachlass" ("Among the Posthumous Works": Sixteen pieces for viola, cello and double-bass) approaches its unusual choice of instruments in sixteen brief pieces. "Konversation" ("Conversation between viola, cello and double-bass"), the first performance of a work by the young Chinese composer Xiaoliang Zhou, illuminates the intuitive comprehensibility of music. Admission is free. There is no need for prior booking. Please make sure of a seat by arriving in good time. The concert lasts some 45 minutes. Young Soloists is a season of concerts organized by the Siemens Stiftung in collaboration with the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Artistic conception: Harald Lillmeyer, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
Concept and organization: Jens Cording and Anja Funke, Siemens Stiftung. If you wish to receive ongoing information on the concert season, please send an e-mail to: info@siemens-stiftung.org]]> Culture Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:57:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Siemens-Stiftung-extends-deadline-for-entries-to-the-empowering-people-Award.html?no_cache=1&cHash=748e1cf5dca7a9d8cb3c3ee609fb3ded The ”empowering people. Award“, launched by the Siemens Stiftung has two main objectives: firstly,... Basic Needs & Social Entrepreneurship Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:37:00 +0100 http://www.siemens-stiftung.org//en/bigger/press-news/press-release/article/Media-portal-celebrates-one-millionth-download.html?no_cache=1&cHash=f70fcbd643d417a41e3ff2d62377200e As the year draws to a close, the media portal has every reason to celebrate: downloads have now... Go directly to the media portal.]]> Education Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:03:00 +0100