Lennart-Bernadotte-Stiftung

Foundation purposes

• Promotion of international ethos and the sciences, particularly by making contacts between older and younger scientists on an international level, especially by promoting the board of trustees for the “Kuratorium für die Tagungen der Nobelpreisträger in Lindau e.V.” conferences of the noble prize winners in Lindau.
• Promotion of landscape management on the basis of the “Green charter of Mainau” issued on 20 April 1961 at the fifth Mainau round table discussion, particularly the promotion of the German Council for Landscape Management and the “Deutsche Gartenbau-Gesellschaft 1822 e.V.”
• Promotion of “Europäisches KulturForum Mainau e.V.”, which is under the patronage of the European council in Strasbourg, and which promotes and moderates culture in international Lake Constance
• In the area of “Pro Integration”, promotion of the association “Gärtnern für Alle e.V.”, which introduces young people with learning difficulties to horticultural but also other professions, and in the specialist area of “Green School” with school gardens, green classrooms, international Mainau Youth Games, teacher seminars and other gardening-related courses to show young people and adults the way to nature education.

The foundation tasks are primarily fulfilled by financial support from the relevant institutions. Finally, the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation awards the “Lennart Bernadotte prize for landscape management” annually, endowed with €5,000, for excellent dissertations at German universities in the area of landscape management, and the “Sonja-Bernadotte medal” for horticulture, endowed with €1,000, for particularly good dissertations in the area of garden culture.