Senior Experten Service (SES) is less a traditional grantmaker than a volunteer-expertise platform: it mobilizes experienced professionals, often retired or on career break, for short-term assignments that strengthen social, economic, and vocational development in Germany and abroad. Its work appears to center on practical capacity-building through expert deployment, frequently in partnership with development and education-oriented organizations rather than through unrestricted cash grants. Nonprofits and public-interest institutions that need hands-on technical, vocational, or organizational know-how are the best fit.
Primarily non-monetary support via organized expert assignments and volunteer placements; partnerships and program-based collaboration are central, with open assignments coordinated through staff contacts rather than an open grant application process.
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Approach SES with a clearly defined capacity-building need and a concrete project where an experienced volunteer expert can deliver measurable help. Expect a partnership-style intake rather than a standard grant application; reach out to the relevant contact person for open assignments and be prepared to explain the assignment scope, timing, location, and required professional expertise.
Current and upcoming funding from Senior Experten Service Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Es muss eine detaillierte Einsatzanfrage vorliegen; der SES sucht dann im Register nach passenden Experts. Der Text nennt keine öffentliche Förderantragsberechtigung für Geldzuschüsse.
Who can apply: Schulen in Deutschland, die SES-Experts für Projekte anfordern möchten.
Who can apply: Auszubildende, Ausbildungsbetriebe und Berufsschulen im Rahmen der Initiative VerAplus.
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