Multidimensional Thinking in Risk Management

The Funk Foundation promotes primarily scientific and practice-oriented projects in the field of risk management and risk research. In this scope it also initiates and awards prizes.

Moreover, the foundation commits itself to the task of promoting specific cultural projects and fostering artistic talent.

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Risk Report – Political Risk Scenarios

Conflicts, political changes or other dangers arising from digitization have an impact on the German economy. 

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Risk Management

Research

Risk Reports 2.0 – update of the publication series “Risk Report – Political Risk Scenarios”

Global events show how complex and multi-layered the understanding of political risks and their effects are. Risks are constantly changing and risk assessment for companies is more important than ever. Therefor, the Funk Foundation, together with MBI-CONIAS, has decided to update and reissue the reports on political risks. Since fall 2023, these new and updated reports are published step by step and are available for download free of charge.

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Web application

Individual reporting on sustainability with the CSP-Radar

The Online-Radar for Corporate Social Performance (CSP) helps companies to define fields of action and indicators for their own sustainability reporting. Users receive their personal CSP radar and a CSP scorecard free of charge, which can be used as a template for sustainability reports.

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Research

Preliminary study on reputation risks

Public interest in corporate social and ecological responsibility is growing. Violations of public expectations pose considerable reputational risks. Against this background, the research project of the University of St. Gallen, initiated by the Funk Stiftung, conducted a preliminary study with the aim of compiling and consolidating the state of the art in research on reputation, reputational risks and their management.

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Culture

Recording

Severin von Eckardstein with "Vers la flamme"

„From fog to blinding light”. In the year 1914 the mystical visionary Aleksander Skrjabin characterized his newly composed piano work, the Poème "Vers la flamme" ("Toward the Flame") in this way. In the same way the virtuoso pianist Severin von Eckardstein describes the idea of his new album, which bears the same title: "Vers la flame".

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Recording

Lydia Maria Bader with "Tales of the Sea"

On her new solo album, pianist Lydia Maria Bader presents original “maritime” repertoire for piano including works by Ernest Bloch, Zhu Gongyi, Gustave Samazeuilh, Frank Bridge, Anton Rubinstein and Edward MacDowell.

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Lux Nova Duo with "Inspiración Bach"

The CD of the Lux Nova Duo presents pieces of music by the baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach and places them in a context especially with contemporary works that have been influenced or directly inspired by Bach.

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