Based in Berlin, the event forum of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group conceives, plans, organises and stages national and international conferences, symposia, award ceremonies, faculty endowments and exhibitions on current topics in economics, science, society and culture. It thus performs a crucial aspect of public-relations work for one of the major publishing groups in Germany and makes a significant contribution to the furthering of interdisciplinary dialogue. This exclusive service is also offered to external partners.
The portfolio of the event forum features the Holtzbrinck Prizes for Science Journalism and Business Publishing. Significant projects include the
Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship for Literature at the Free University of Berlin and the
Picador Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig.
Here is a selection of the events staged by the event forum on a regular basis:
- the ZEIT Science Forum,
- the Handelsblatt Business Meetings,
- the Morningstar Fund Awards,
- the symposia and award ceremonies of Freedom and Responsibility, a joint initiative of WirtschaftsWoche magazine and the leading associations of German industry BDI, BDA, DIHK und ZDH,
- the Max Planck Forums Berlin,
- and the Distinguished W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures at Humboldt University, Berlin, in cooperation with the U.S. embassy and Harvard University.
On these and other manifold projects, the event forum works together with German federal and state ministries, the office of the German President, embassies, the DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service), the German Rectors’ Conference, the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Society, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Koerber Foundation, the Schaubuehne Theater Berlin, the Schauspiel Theater Frankfurt, the National Theater in Weimar, the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, industry associations, and leading national and international corporations and financial institutions.
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