General information

In order to realize the Foundation's aims, its administrative board can engage in all the activities which it deems appropriate. This includes, among others:

- support for institutions that organize debates or lectures;

- support for individuals, institutions or groups which contribute, for example, by means of publications, documentaries or exhibitions, to the promotion of the ideals of those who established the Foundation. These supportive activities are achieved by means of subsidies, loans and in some cases investments.

The enormous changes in the media which have come about as a result of digitization and the arrival of the internet – a development the end of which is not yet in sight – are forcing the Foundation to reconsider continuously the means by which a diverse media landscape and individual freedom of speech and thought can be protected. This means, in practical terms, that the Foundation has to direct its efforts to a broad set of activities. To this end, the Foundation is cooperating, at both the national and international levels, with other organizations which energetically support the same goals.

The international subsidy-supported activities are confined to Europe.