Our foundations Endowment funds and independent foundations

2017 - 2023

Promotion of the transition process in the South Caucasus - notably in Armenia and Georgia - by initiating, coaching and implementing education and development projects focused on practical impact.

Support for transition

The activities of the SSCF were focused on transition development in the South Caucasus, which is determined by ethnic, political and economic problems. The focus was on targeted project promotion in the two neighbouring and yet so different countries Georgia and Armenia. A broad range of support was provided, geared to basic education and basic needs.

For example, the SSCF initiated and supported key areas such as agriculture and tourism as well as school and university projects with great implementation and application benefits through education-related development projects. All promotional activities were designed to identify and implement potential and then to lead these into independence as projects. Therefore, the promotion did not have the character of subsidies; it did not have the aim to lead to dependencies.

Communication

In the South Caucasus, ethnic and national conflicts are sometimes virulent. For reasons of personal and property protection and to avoid superficial comparisons, the SSCF neither published the projects it supported nor maintained its own website. The security of the people involved and the feasibility of the selected projects outweighed the fundamental demand for far-reaching public transparency in the foundation sector.