About Us

About us…

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation) is a political foundation from Germany, which operates two education centers and 16 education institutes nationwide. Our offices abroad oversee more than 200 projects in over 120 countries. We have two headquarters, one in Sankt Augustin near Bonn and one in Berlin.

The Stiftung is named after the first Federal Chancellor of Germany. To us, his name, his legacy and the principles of Konrad Adenauer (1876 – 1967) are a precept, a mission, and an obligation altogether.

“Our enemies of today are not other nations. Our enemies of today are poverty, ignorance, disease and discrimination. What we need is co-operation based on the idea that the entire world is one human family. Ignorance and lack of understanding among Asian, African and Western nations is the greatest danger we are facing today”, Konrad Adenauer, 1957.

On the national and international level, we conduct civic education to promote peace, freedom, and justice. Our key concerns include consolidating democracy, promoting the unification of Europe, intensifying international relations, and development-policy cooperation.

As a think-tank and consulting agency, we develop scientific background information and current analyses, thus setting the ground for political action.
We provide moral and material support to gifted young people not only from Germany but also from Central and Eastern Europe and from the developing countries. We keep close contacts with our alumni, who by now number more than 8,800.

Exhibitions, readings and awards complement our portfolio. We support young artists, and the renowned literature prize of the KAS is awarded once a year. There are dedicated projects to promote young journalists. Since 1980, we have been awarding a prize for local journalism. The Social Market Economy Prize of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has been awarded since 2002 to personages of outstanding merit in preserving and developing social market economy.

At our seminars, meetings and congresses, we bring together people who 'have something to say'. Each year, we organize more than 2,500 events attended by 145,000 participants in Germany alone.

…in Malaysia
The International Cooperation has traditionally been a key area of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. With its activities and projects, the Stiftung realises an active and substantial contribution to support democracies and rule of law as well as social market economy as a base for an improvement of the political, social and economic livelihood.

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has been playing an active role in the political, economic and social transformation of Malaysia for over three decades. Together with our local partners, our goal is to contribute to this successful development by achieving the Vision 2020 of a fully developed nation.

Our thrust lies in building strong democratic institutions, a vibrant civil society, sustainable, socially and ecological balanced economic systems. In view of the cultural religious and ethnic backgrounds composing Malaysia’s society, we pursue to promote a better understanding, and thereby, contribute to ensuring harmony and peace as a cornerstone for any durable development.

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has organized its programme priorities in Malaysia into five working areas:

• the civil society, parliaments, political parties, rule of law
  
• social changes, economic reforms, leadership
  
• bilateral relations, international relations, security policy
  
• poverty alleviation, rural development
  
• media, public relations
  

In implementing its project and programmes, the Stiftung cooperates with Malaysian partner organisations, such as think tanks, training institutions, government agencies and non-governmental institutions.

Our activities are funded exclusively by the German Federal Ministry for Economics Cooperation, and hereby form part of the bilateral cooperation between Germany and Malaysia.