Permanent spaces for vibrant exchange, strong alliances and a shared vision are essential if we are to meet the major challenges of our time.  

The Allianz Foundation Hubs embody the Foundation’s Europe-wide, cross-border and cross-disciplinary approach. The programme supports organisations working at the intersection of civil society, the arts, culture and climate action. These multi-year institutional collaborations with regionally networked partner organisations foster a decentralised way of working across borders and disciplines. 

Each Hub can draw on multi-year structural funding to develop both institutionally and at programme level, as well as to build regional links with partners and grassroots movements. The Hubs also work together on joint projects and programmes, supported by peer learning and staff exchanges.

Highlights

Here is a full list of Allianz Foundation Hubs: 

In a context of growing polarisation, shrinking civic space and accelerating ecological crises, the Fellows Programme invests in independent individuals working at the frontlines of social transformation.

The Allianz Foundation supports projects addressing civil society, ecological and artistic or cultural issues with the aim of fostering systemic change. 

Support is provided through an annual call for proposals, as well as through third‑party funded and cooperative projects implemented within specific funding frameworks. Recognising that the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss, experiences of discrimination, and threats to free, diverse and democratic societies transcend national borders, the Foundation focuses its engagement across Europe.

Selected Highlights

Train 723

Kharkiv‑based Nafta Theatre built the play Train 723 as a kaleidoscope of perspectives. It brings together testimonies of railway workers and passengers, reflecting everyday life, labour, and emotional attachment to Ukrainian Railways.

The project began with research and a road trip. This involved travelling between locations, including the director’s hometown. Meetings with a local historian and visits to the railway station helped gather material for the play. Even this initial phase carried its own challenges: ice-covered roads and long drives required continuous focus.

Third-party funded projects and cooperation

Alongside its own grantmaking, the Allianz Foundation pools its funding with resources from partner organisations. In 2025, the European Climate Hub continued its work. Launched in 2022 in cooperation with the Climate Imperative Foundation, the initiative supports partner organisations working together to advance the European Green Deal and to address the climate crisis. 

 With support from the European Climate Hub, the Council on Economic Policies (CEP) advanced a European narrative highlighting the critical role of innovation and decarbonisation for Europe’s prosperity through its project “Fiscal Policy for Industrial Innovation and Decarbonisation”. In this context, the project identified ways to create fiscal space to achieve EU and national climate targets, as well as outlining what a coherent policy mix in this area could look like. These findings and recommendations were introduced into the policy debate through publications and high-level expert discussions.

Operational budget for the European Climate Hub: 310,000 euros.

Young people across Germany are already working hard to make society fairer, more open, and more sustainable. 

They organise climate initiatives, advocate for equal opportunities, support their communities, and create spaces for dialogue and participation. Yet many of these efforts remain underrecognised. The Movers of Tomorrow Award, the Allianz Foundation’s award for young civic engagement, exists to address this gap. 

The programme supports young people aged 16 to 24 who are committed to social justice, open societies, and climate and environmental protection. At its core, the Movers of Tomorrow Award is built on a simple idea: when young people receive trust, visibility, and support, they can expand the reach of their work, not only individually, but together. Accordingly, the programme combines public recognition, financial support, networking opportunities, and spaces for exchange. 

Just as importantly, it challenges a common pattern in public discourse. Young people are often described as the “future,” while their current contributions are overlooked. The Movers of Tomorrow Award instead presents young people as active actors in today’s society, whose views and civic engagement deserve recognition.

In 2025 – it’s second year – the Movers of Tomorrow Award reached more young people and communities than ever before.

The number of nominations rose from 94 in 2024 to 143 in 2025, and more than 26,000 votes were cast during the subsequent online voting phase. The programme website recorded around 247,000 visits, almost 2.6 times the number in 2024. Social media content reached more than 550,000 people during the voting period, 93 per cent of whom had not previously followed the programme. 

The newly introduced three-vote-voting process also encouraged deeper engagement. Second and third vote options prompted many participants to explore multiple profiles and causes.

In 2025, research was carried out for the second edition of the Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study, to be published at the start of 2026. 

It provides European civil society leaders and decision makers with insights into young people’s visions for a future society and the actions they take to help shape it. It is based on a large-scale representative survey carried out among more than 8,500 young people aged 16 to 39 in France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain. Together, these five countries account for approximately 65 per cent of Generation Z and Millennials across the European Union. 

The study was conducted in mid-2025 in collaboration with three research partners: the SINUS Institute (Dr Marc Calmbach), the WZB Social Science Center (Prof. Michael Zürn) and the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Dr Ayline Heller). Their expertise in youth research, democratic backsliding and psychometric scale development made a vital contribution to the quality and depth of the findings. 

Research instruments were refined not only in close collaboration with the academic partners, but also informed by the on-the-ground expertise of five civil society partners in the participating countries. These included Vox Public (France), Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Germany), CILD (Italy), the New Community Foundation (Poland) and Palumba (Spain). 

Following the fieldwork, joint discussions with these partners focused on interpreting the findings and co-developing dissemination strategies tailored to national contexts. In the third quarter of 2025, civil society, media and government stakeholders received a preview of key findings in high-level national and international settings, including the re:publica and Innocracy conferences in Berlin and the Athens Democracy Forum. Both the Allianz Foundation and central findings from the Study were referenced in The New York Times’ reporting from the Forum.

Since its launch in 2022, the Foundation has supported a total of 155 projects with a combined funding of 15 million euros. 

Particular emphasis has been placed on initiatives operating at the intersection of civil society, ecology, culture and the arts to advance just, resilient societies and a climate‑neutral future.

The Foundation’s administrative expenditure on materials and personnel totaled 1.2 million euros. These expenses are not directly assigned to any funding or operative projects. 

The Allianz Foundation is a foundation under civil law with legal capacity and its legal domicile in Munich. 

Its supervisory authority is the Government of Upper Bavaria. Its offices are located in the Allianz Forum at Pariser Platz in Berlin. The Allianz Foundation has a total endowment capital of 100 million euros. The Foundation’s funding is drawn from the income that the endowment capital generates. In addition, from 2022 up to and including 2031, it will receive an additional annual donation of 5 million euros from Allianz SE. The Foundation also draws on third-party funding from partners and through cooperation with them. 

Climate responsibility 

The Allianz Foundation is committed to supporting climate justice in societies. To strengthen its ambitions in this area, the Foundation developed its own Climate Responsibility Framework, previously referred to as the “Beyond Net Zero” strategy. The framework builds on existing concepts from the Climate Contribution Model and further develops them in line with the Foundation’s role, field of activity and responsibility as a charitable organisation. 

As a foundation for this framework, the Allianz Foundation calculated its greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This analysis enables the identification and quantification of key emission sources and provides a basis for defining effective measures to reduce emissions swiftly and systematically. 

To further consolidate its approach, the Allianz Foundation funded the Climate Contribution Hub, developed and operated by the NewClimate Institute. The Hub provides partners and other organisations with accessible guidance, practical tools and, where needed, expert support to advance their own climate responsibility efforts.