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In 1991, the Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ) was founded with this insight, which was progressive for the time: How we act here in Baden-Württemberg has an impact on the whole world. For this reason, people here locally must take on global responsibility and become aware of how their lives, their decisions and their consumer behavior are embedded in global conditions.
The SEZ was established on January 9, 1991 by the Baden-Württemberg state parliament after the then Prime Minister Lothar Späth and the former CDU parliamentary group leader Erwin Teufel, together with the former state parliament president Erich Schneider, had been pursuing the idea of the foundation for a long time. In May 1991, the SEZ moved into its first business premises on Urbanstrasse in Stuttgart and was run by Dr. Karl-Hans Schmid, who then handed over management to Rainer Lang. Philipp Keil has been the managing director of the SEZ since 2013.
Making people in Baden-Württemberg aware of how they and their actions impact globally has always been the theme of the SEZ. This is reflected in our diverse portfolio. The coordination office for the AMAHORO! Country partnership with Burundithe Fair trade fair and SEZ project funding – under the brand since 2019 works! – have established themselves as an integral part of the development policy map in Baden-Württemberg. New projects in cooperation with EU partners, the business world or on current topics have been added. In 2017, for example, Future fashion a joint project has been created that brings together committed people and producers for fair fashion far beyond the SEZ. In order to reach even more young people in Baden-Württemberg, there has been Mindchangers, which specifically incorporates new topics into development policy.
While in 1991 the first letters in the SEZ were still typed on a portable typewriter, today we are digitally well connected and present on easily accessible channels for development policy advice and support, as a platform for networking and information: Here on the website you will find ongoing News. The Future Fashion movement can be found on www.futurefashion.de and Instagram. With the SEZletterto pay more attention to the Burundi Nouvelles and the Future Fashion Newsletter stay up to date on us, the partnership with Burundi and tomorrow's consumption. And also applications for project funding works! or Mindchangers today run completely digitally via our new one Application portal.
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