In our “Global Issues” support area, we are committed to achieving peaceful coexistence worldwide. To this end, we are addressing the core social challenges of our time.

We want to:

  • promote sustainable and inclusive peace by supporting locally-led peacebuilding
  • reduce systemic inequalities 
  •  tackle the climate crisis by promoting climate-resilient land use 
  •  shape a stronger sense of community in an immigration society
  •  strengthen democracy, and
  •   ensure dignity in migration

Working towards this goal, we focus on the interrelationships between these individual issues and also support cross-thematic strategic partnerships.

We particularly strive to amplify the voices of those who have thus far been largely unheard in public and political spheres alike.

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Robert Bosch Stiftung

Funding structure

Our “Global Issues” support area focuses on the following topics: climate change, democracy, immigration society, inequality, migration, and peace. We also support cross-thematic strategic partnerships, including with think tanks.

Please note: We are currently not accepting any project ideas. Please kindly refrain from sending us any. Thank you for your understanding. 

What we focus on

Climate Change

How can a just socioecological transformation of land use preserve lives and livelihoods?

Democracy

How can we strengthen democracy in Germany and Europe?

Immigration Society

How can we shape a stronger sense of community in an immigration society?

Inequality

How can inequalities be addressed and reduced?

Migration

How can we shape migration policy, governance, and practice through international cooperation in order to make it humane, far-sighted, and sustainable?

Peace

What creates sustainable peace?

Strategic Partnerships

In the field of "Strategic Partnerships", we support organizations that address overarching topics from our "Global Issues" support area.

Latest topics from our "Global Issues" support area

Infographic

A Safe Harbour?

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Integration

“We can do it” – Ten years later

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Ayse Özbabacan, Commissioner for Integration

“We need to talk about our successes"

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Frauke Frech, 'Grand Beauty Salon' project

“My hope that the state would act ‘outside the box’ has not been fulfilled”

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Khalid Al Aboud, journalist from Syria

“Listen more closely to us refugees!”

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Raphaela Schweiger, migration expert at the Robert Bosch Stiftung

“We mustn't be intimidated by the changed political game”

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Migration researcher Hannes Schammann

“There was no debate – Do we want to make it happen?”

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Focus topic 2025

Strengthening Democracy: 10 Things You Can Do Right Now

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Point of view

More Than Military: Why West Africa Must Look to Local NGOs

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New study

How Citizen Participation Can Strengthen Climate Policy

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Queer migrants

“I was shocked that racism is openly practiced even in the queer community”

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Dossier

Why Climate Policy Must Become a Priority

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Opinion

Climate Mobility in Times of Global Upheaval

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Migration Journalism Award

A Conversation with Award Winner Gabriela Galvin on Stigma and Storytelling

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Inequality

Intersectionality: Understanding Multiple Discrimination, Transforming Power Structures

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Climate change

5 Facts about Emissions Trading, Land Rights and Land Grabbing

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Social cohesion

Fostering resilience in Ukrainian society

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Appeal ‘Stay the course’

A future worth living requires strong climate action and local commitment

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Migration

How Europe can escape the migration deterrence trap

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Immigration society

Why Islam and Germany Go Hand in Hand

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Opinion piece by our migration expert

A Dangerous Distortion: The Debate on the Return of Syrian Refugees

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New funding program

Building Power for Economic Justice

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Publication series

Bridging Policy and Practice in the Context of Climate-Induced Migration

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Writing about climate change

Climate change in our minds

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Dossier

How citizen participation strengthens a vibrant democracy

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MENA region

Climate Change Threatens Peace and Security

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Fellowship for African journalists

Storytelling against desertification

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Environmental migration

Built on hope

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UN Climate Change Conference COP27

How people across African countries are fighting climate crisis

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Interview

Subsidy of Food System Must Change

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