Inwent: 2000 to today

Inwent begins activities in its preliminary form of organisation with head offices in Bonn. Dr. Ulrich Popp is the Chief Executive Director, Dr. Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius and Bernd Schleich are Managing Directors.

9 September 2003

Inwent issues its mission statement with a focus on the individual: "We promote skills for people looking to shape their own futures. International cooperation in knowledge and education provides the basis, promoting knowledge from and for the individual."

November 2003

Inwent Chief Executive Director Dr. Ulrich Popp and Cao Sanming, acting president of the National Association of Judges in China sign a note of understanding.

29 March 2004

The Inwent Supervisory Board is created. It comprises representatives from the German parliament, the federal states, the company, business organisations and some federal ministries.
Inwent boards

24 July 2004

Inwent’s parliamentary exchange programme has been opening doors for young people from Germany and the USA for 20 years.

26 August 2004

Inwent and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) extend their partnership.

17 September 2004

The alumni portal goes online, connecting former programme participants with each other and Inwent.

7 January 2005

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development commissions Inwent to coordinate financial assistance from Germany for Tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.

1 March 2005

The "Ch@t der Welten" (Ch@t between Worlds) is selected as a decade project for the UN "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development".

22 April 2005

The ASA programme’s European youth project, GLEN, is selected by the Council of Europe.

March 2006

The move for employees from Cologne and Bonn into the new Inwent headquarters in the former offices of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is complete.

7 September 2006

Advanced training advances careers: A study of Inwent’s Asia-Pacific Programme shows that placement or training abroad has a positive effect on career development 90 percent of the time.

19 January 2007

Inwent kicks off the German-South African joint project “let’s stay friends” for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Inwent’s Service Agency Communities in One World is coordinating the involvement of experts from those German cities that hosted the cup in 2006.

13 February 2007

Online courses for HIV and AIDS prevention in Africa and Asia are awarded second place in the “eureleA 2007” e-learning prize.

27 February 2007

German chancellor Dr Angela Merkel holds the opening keynote at the international "Women’s Economic Empowerment as Smart Economics" conference organised by Inwent’s Development Policy Forum.

8 May 2007

New energy for Africa: Inwent and the Energiebau Solarstromsysteme firm receive the Roy Family award in 2007 from Harvard University. This award honoured a public-private partnership project to provide rural regions in Africa with electricity from renewable energy sources.

May 2007

After an initial memorandum of understanding in 2003, representatives from Inwent and the World Bank Institute sign a joint cooperation programme. Inwent is the second partner with whom the World Bank Institute has agreed to such a close partnership.

8 June 2007

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who first had contact with Inwent 1969 and attended our International Education Centre Feldafing, comes to our headquarters Bonn to join in a discussion on the fringes of the G8 summit.

22 October 2007

Under the patronage of German President Dr. Horst Köhler Inwent’s International Institute for Journalism organises a research trip for African journalists through Germany and to Brussels.

11-14 November 2007

The first Inwent alumni conference on the African continent takes place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

3 December 2007

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Information and Advising Centre (IBS) has been providing information about professional training and continuing educational programmes abroad for 20 years.

19 May 2008

Inwent signs a memorandum of understanding with the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).