Stiftung Digitale Chancen | Digital Opportunities Foundation

About the Digital Opportunities Foundation

Our goal: equal opportunities in the digital environment

We enable and strengthen the digital participation of all people.
We connect civil society, politics, business, and academia.
We provide impetus and shape discourse at national and international level.
We work target group-oriented seeking to strengthen digital skills.
We research the societal impact of digitisation. We learn from practice, transfer our expertise into research and spread research results into practice.

In implementing this mission, we contribute to the realisation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 16 and 17, as well as other goals in line with the respective assignments of our projects.

The projects of the foundation serve to

Development of training materials and curricula for multipliers
Implementation of training courses
Evaluation of measures to promote Internet use and media competence.

The focus of the foundation's work is on

Protection of minors from harmful media and provider responsibility
Data protection
Digital sourverity and accessibility
The impact of social engagement in and with social media
Socially oriented development of digitalization in rural areas

Who we want to reach

In short, everyone who wants to participate in the development and opportunities of digitization. The offerings of the Digital Opportunities Foundation address:

Young and old
People with different social, financial, professional and educational backgrounds
People with different experiences and from different walks of life
People who want to work together with others
People who want to regain their footing in the job market
People who want to help others and get involved socially.

In particular, we want to reach disadvantaged population groups who are not yet benefiting fully from the opportunities of digitization through the foundation's activities. They should be taken along on the path to a digital and inclusive society.

Financing and funding

The Digital Opportunities Foundation is operationally active, which means that it does not award grants, but rather acquires funding - together with other organizations - and implements projects at the national and international level. To this end, it works in cooperation with public, civil-society and private-sector partners.

The foundation's projects are financed by funds from European funding programs and grants from the federal government or other public funding sources. The foundation also works with partners from the private sector. The founders and donors of the Digital Opportunities Foundation support us in this endeavor.