Berger-Willimann Stiftung

The foundation aims to promote, support, and advance the industries of hospitality, gastronomy, tourism, arts, and culture. The purpose of the foundation includes, in particular: - **Education Promotion:** Supporting educational projects, particularly through scholarships, training, vocational education, and advisory services for trainees and professionals in the aforementioned industries. - **Material Support:** Assisting demonstrably needy individuals through financial or material donations to improve their training and employment opportunities in the aforementioned industries. - **Innovation and Sustainability:** Supporting projects that aim to promote sustainable, innovative, and environmentally friendly concepts in the aforementioned industries. - **Development Promotion:** Supporting initiatives and projects that contribute to the attractiveness and further development of the aforementioned industries in Switzerland and internationally. - **Social Integration and Inclusion:** Promoting projects that aim to integrate disadvantaged or impaired individuals into the workforce in the aforementioned industries. - **International Cooperation:** Supporting cross-border educational and development projects to strengthen international exchange of knowledge and experiences in the aforementioned industries. The foundation can: - Provide financial assistance in the form of low-interest loans, contributions, or guarantees. - Organize conferences and other events that support and promote the foundation's activities. - Interact with supervisory authorities, government agencies, companies, partners, banks, and other third parties for the benefit of the foundation. - Acquire, hold, exploit, and transfer licenses, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights. - Distribute received contributions in fulfillment of the foundation's purpose. - Collaborate with other organizations, companies, or projects with similar objectives, support and promote them, participate in them, merge with them, or create new organizations. The foundation can engage in any activity or transaction that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose, including purchasing real estate and donating to charitable institutions and individuals. The foundation can also delegate the fulfillment of its tasks to other organizations, create such organizations, and support existing ones. The foundation does not have a commercial purpose and does not seek profit. The purpose of the foundation is exclusively public and charitable. The foundation is politically and denominationally neutral. The foundation operates throughout Switzerland as per its purpose. Within the scope of its purpose, the foundation can also operate abroad.