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Light­house Found­a­tion - Found­a­tion for the seas and oceans

Our Mo­tiv­a­tion

Earth's oceans are what give our planet its iden­tity - the blue planet, the wa­tery globe. They are the cradle of life, the re­gion with the highest level of biod­iversity we know, an ir­re­place­able source of food, a source and a stor­age cham­ber in world-scale chem­ical and en­ergy cycles, the en­gine of earth's cli­mate. The oceans de­term­ine the nature and qual­ity of the bio­sphere far bey­ond their coast­lines. They are the sus­tain­ing, all-en­com­passing ele­ment in the global bio­sphere.

The Light­house Found­a­tion sup­ports in­teg­rated and long-term ap­proaches in the re­la­tion­ship between hu­mans and the mar­ine en­vir­on­ment within the con­text of sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

Addresses:

Light­house Found­a­tion

Mönck­e­bergstr. 22
D-20 095 Ham­burg
 Ger­many

 

Our Or­gan­isa­tion

In the year 2000 the Light­house Found­a­tion was es­tab­lished as a char­it­able found­a­tion in Ger­man civil law, dom­i­ciled in Ham­burg (Az.: PA 4/​922.31-64(1870); Sen­at­skan­zlei der Freien und Hans­estadt Ham­burg, 1.Sept. 2000). The Found­a­tion’s pur­pose is to pro­mote sci­ence and re­search, teach­ing, cul­ture, and the prin­ciples of en­vir­on­ment­al­ism and in­ter­na­tional de­vel­op­ment in re­la­tion to the world’s seas and oceans.

Through an ini­ti­at­ive of the Ham­burg busi­ness com­munity, 25 mil­lion euro was con­trib­uted to the Found­a­tion as en­dow­ment cap­ital, and the yield on this cap­ital fin­ances the Found­a­tion’s activ­it­ies. The Found­a­tion works primar­ily in a spon­sor­ing role, yet main­tains close con­tact with the pro­jects it sup­ports.

As a for­ward-look­ing in­sti­tu­tion with a prac­tical ap­proach, the Found­a­tion’s work is co­ordin­ated by a small core team. The Found­a­tion is su­per­vised by a three-per­son Board of Trust­ees con­sist­ing of a rep­res­ent­at­ive of a Ham­burg bank, an at­tor­ney at law and a rep­res­ent­at­ive of the Ham­burg me­dia in­dustry.

Light­house Found­a­tion, Of­fice Kiel:

Kanal­straße 67a
D-24 159 Kiel
Tel: +49 (0)431 668 468 0
Fax: +49 (0)431 668 468 11
 
Satzung-LF-19-12-2011.pdf (3.9 MB)

Satzung der Light­house Found­a­tion

Our Vision - a just fu­ture for all hu­man be­ings on our ‘blue plan­et’

Our Mission - the pro­mo­tion of in­teg­rated sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment pro­cesses and re­spons­ible be­ha­viour to pro­tect our mar­ine en­vir­on­ment

Our Strategy - sup­port­ing pro­jects which aim to solve prob­lems in mar­ine loc­a­tions, as an ex­ample of the feas­ib­il­ity of sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment. High­light­ing the in­ter­de­pend­ence of hu­mans and the sea, and bring­ing about a bet­ter pub­lic un­der­stand­ing of mar­ine is­sues.

What does that mean for our work?

Resillienz
The found­ing of the Found­a­tion is based on the in­sight that the cur­rent de­vel­op­ment of hu­man­ity will lead to a great fail­ure. This is the mes­sage of the first and second Rio Con­fer­ences, and of all the de­vel­op­mental goals that hu­man­ity has shared since then. Whether we will leave this path is un­cer­tain. There­fore, it is im­port­ant to strengthen com­munit­ies that want something dif­fer­ent and to strengthen the re­si­li­ence of ex­em­plary de­vel­op­ments.

Change
What should stay, that must change. The global crisis re­quires com­pre­hens­ive change in all areas in or­der to en­able a world worth liv­ing for in the fu­ture as well. This is not easy, but small steps will not help. The read­i­ness to ques­tion nearly everything is dif­fi­cult for most people and re­quires a lot of cour­age and en­ergy. We help.

Future
The fu­ture is not pre­de­ter­mined. Des­pite all the gloomy pre­dic­tions and low prob­ab­il­it­ies, it is worth work­ing with the op­tim­ism and cre­ativ­ity on a roadmap for a good fu­ture for all of us. Be­cause without this map and way­po­ints for ori­ent­a­tion and re­flec­tion, we will not find the way. We build with.

What is the added value?
Deal­ing with these is­sues is a ma­jor chal­lenge for our pro­ject part­ners, be­cause deal­ing with com­plex, un­cer­tain is­sues al­ways has an ef­fect on the or­gan­iz­a­tion it­self. There­fore, we sup­port our pro­ject part­ners also in the in­dis­pens­able per­sonal and in­sti­tu­tional de­vel­op­ment.

Büro Kiel

Adresses

Donation account:

Foerde Sparkasse

Light­house Found­a­tion

IBAN DE36 2105  0170 1003 9417 52

BIC: NO­LADE21KIE