The Allianz Foundation Hubs aim to support pathbreaking organizations from civil society, arts & culture and climate action – across the entire European continent and the Mediterranean. 

Regional and local expertise become productive by bundling forces, resources and ideas. In order to meet the massive challenges of our times, new ways for exchange and cooperation are needed. And a common vision.

The Hubs provide ideas for shared initiatives that emerge from the diversity of different approaches and ways of thinking. They overcome the boundaries between countries, disciplines and movements. Researchers, activists and artists from different parts of Europe and the Mediterranean could develop innovative concepts reacting to pressing issues around climate change. Residencies with stations in several countries could be offered where risktakers are fighting for equal opportunities and against marginalization from their own national perspectives. These are only two examples of numerous possible forms of cooperation and mutual inspiration that can grow and deepen over the years.

We are striving for a network that is more than the sum of its parts. Through multi-year structural funding, each Hub is enabled to grow organically as an institution, to develop its own public program and to tend to its own regional network of partners and grassroots movements. At the same time, the Hubs cooperate across borders through staff exchanges, multilateral residencies, jointly funded projects and co-curated programs.

The Hubs create a pan-European ecosystem of knowledge, innovation and pioneering spirit. The program has a long-term and sustainable design. In this way, the Allianz Foundation reinforces its mission of contributing to the realization of a transnational European civil society that stands for openness, diversity, resilience and ecological awareness.