Good participation means that all parts of society are heard and that solutions are based on a variety of diverse opinions and interests.

The funds of the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility should be spent on two objectives – kickstart the European economy and make it more resilient to future crises. However, there can be a trade-off between rapid recovery from...

How widespread is populism one year before the 2021 federal elections? And how has the corona crisis shaped public opinion? Our analysis shows that populist attitudes have become much less pronounced and widespread, above all in...

A new study assesses which areas of the EU’s economic engagement with China are safe from being drawn into discussions about sensitive sectors, critical infrastructure or national security.

The megatrend report “The coronavirus transformation” examines central changes to the megatrends of  globalization and digitalization as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. It also illuminates interactions between these...

Every two years, the Globalization Report examines how well individual countries have benefited from the progressing globalization since 1990. The influence of changes of the respective degree of globalization on the real gross...

In 2011, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched the model project, “Kein Kind zurücklassen! Kommunen in NRW beugen vor” (“Leave no child behind! Municipalities in North...

Our 2020 Globalization Report measures the gains from increasing international integration in 45 industrialized and emerging countries.

On September 7 2020, Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, joined an online conversation hosted by Open Society Foundations, King Baudouin Foundation, European Movement International and Bertelsmann...

The Globalization Report 2020 shows that advancing globalization has increased material prosperity at the macroeconomic level, in particular in industrialized countries, between 1990 and 2018.