Go on the journey of your life
Are you young and curious about life? Do you want to discover the world in your own way? Do you have clear travel ideas, but not enough cash? Then you’re in the same boat as many of our scholarship holders, whose wishes we have helped fulfil. Because no matter who you are or what drives you, our foundation will help you plan your at least 4 week long research trip.
Every year we award approximately 60 new scholarships to young people so that they can gain new impressions and deepen their interests and talents outside of the mainstream. Where you want to go and what you want to research is up to you!
Start the journey of your life!
New chairman of the board at zis
New journeys began in 2022 - also in the ranks of the zis Foundation.
In a festive handover of the baton at the 2022 March Meeting, Rüdiger von Fritsch took over the chairmanship of the board from long-time chairman Dr Bernhard Bueb.
First of all, the zis board members expressed their deep-felt gratitude for Dr Bernhard Bueb's long-standing commitment. He had presided over the zis Foundation since 2005 and was been instrumental in its establishment. He showed his deep commitment to zis not only through mediating between different committees of the organization, and curiosity towards the scholarship holders, but also through very successful fundraising. The zis committees presented Dr Bernhard Bueb with a certificate typical of zis to thank him for his decades of commitment and to appoint him as honorary chairman.
The new Chair Rüdiger von Fritsch himself looks back on two successful zis journeys: in 1972 he received the Jean Walter Award for his trip to Cyprus, and in 1974 and 1975 he explored New Zealand on a second project. Subsequently, von Fritsch remained loyal to the zis Foundation as a jury member and was involved in the founding of the first association that sponsored zis. Von Fritsch contributed his zis experience in intercultural and international communication to his profession in the Foreign Service, including his time as the German Ambassador to Poland and to Russia. We are very pleased and consider it zis-luck to welcome Rüdiger von Fritsch as Chairman of the Board.
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