^ 'EuropeanвЂ…andвЂ…InternationalвЂ…Cooperation'.^ 'ArchiveвЂ…forвЂ…Christian-DemocraticвЂ…Policy'.^ 'ScholarshipsвЂ…andвЂ…CulturalвЂ…Activities'.^ 'Konrad-Adenauer-StiftungвЂ…-вЂ…Mission:вЂ…Democracy!'.^ 'ImageвЂ…BrochureвЂ…Mission:вЂ…Democracy!' (PDf).As a member of the market-oriented StockholmвЂ…Network, the KAS cooperates with other foundations and thinkвЂ…tanks in issues pertaining to European politics. The KAS is a member of 'European Movement Germany'. Furthermore, the Adenauer Foundation authored a 'Common Declaration' in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, the Hans-Seidel-Foundation, and the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation which explored various mission statements and financing models of political foundations in Germany. These two CDU-friendly foundations are not the Adenauer Foundation's only collaborators for instance, the Adenauer Foundation co-published a study with the BertelsmannвЂ…Foundation, the Market Economy Foundation, and the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation titled 'Educational Policy in a Federal System and International Influences', in which it injected itself into the dialogue on educational policy and examined various influences. In Bavaria, the HannsвЂ…SeidelвЂ…Foundation operates in lieu of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Schleswig-Holstein, the Hermann-Ehlers-Foundation assumes the Adenauer Foundation's role. The Board of Trustees has 24 members who assist and supervise the work of the KAS. The KAS currently has 55 members, many of whom are current and former CDU politicians. He is joined on the Board of Directors by 24 other individuals. ДЇormer President of the Bundestag NorbertвЂ…Lammert is the current President of the KAS. The Scholarships and Cultural Activities department provides financial and moral support to roughly 2,000 students.The department for Civic Education combats the statusвЂ…quo, looking to invoke citizen participation in an era where freedom and peace are taken for granted.The Politics and Consulting department is the think tank of the KAS.The department for European and International Cooperation engages itself with internationalвЂ…politics through the functions of the foundation's more than 200 projects in around 120 countries.The ArchiveвЂ…forвЂ…ChristianвЂ…DemocraticвЂ…Policy (ACDP) documents and researches ChristianвЂ…DemocracyвЂ™s historical development.The aforementioned Academy located in Berlin, which hosts symposia, conferences, meetings, and exhibitions in order to analyze relevant societal and political issues in a public setting.InstitutionДЄlong with the headquarters in SanktвЂ…Augustin and Berlin, the KAS operates two educational centers, sixteen training centers, an Academy, and an international conference center. The KAS offers more than 2,500 conferences and events each year worldwide, and actively supports the political involvement and education of intellectually gifted youth through a prestigious scholarship program as well as an ongoing comprehensive seminar program. Their function as a think-tank and consulting agency is intended to provide citizens with a basis for political action through the research and analyses of current political trends. The aim of the foundation's civic education programs is, according to their official website, the вЂњpromotion of freedom and liberty, peace, and justiceвЂќ through вЂњfurthering European unification, improving transatlantic relations, and deepening development cooperationвЂќ. On 20 December 1955, the Society for Christian Democratic Education, which would be renamed after Chancellor KonradвЂ…Adenauer on 13 October 1964, was opened in Bonn.

The establishment of a вЂњsystematic civic-education program inspired by ChristianвЂ…democratic valuesвЂќ began being considered in 1952 by a group of CDU politicians including Bundestag president HermannвЂ…Ehlers, RobertвЂ…Tillmanns, and HeinrichвЂ…Krone.

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