Applications for “Berthold Beitz School Trips to Berlin” are still possible until March 27, 2026
School classes in Essen can apply for the ‘Berthold Beitz Student Trips to Berlin’ for the 2026/2027 school year until 27 March 2026. For the third consecutive year, the Krupp Foundation, together with the City of Essen and in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin, is offering the ‘Berthold Beitz School Trips to Berlin’ programme.
The trip to Berlin enables pupils to visit the Jewish Museum Berlin and as well as other sites of remembrance of the Nazi dictatorshipin in the context of German-Jewish understanding. The Krupp Foundation is supporting the three-year programme with €300,000. Ten school classes can travel to Berlin each year.
The program honors the life and work of Berthold Beitz (1913–2013), the long-time chair of the Krupp Foundation, who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish people during the Second World War and was recognized at Yad Vashem as a “Righteous Among the Nations.” German-Jewish understanding remains one of the most important priorities of the Foundation’s work to this day.
Young people are particularly exposed to disinformation through manipulative communication in the digital sphere; this poses risks for their understanding of democracy as well as for the development of moral courage. The program is intended to help sharpen historical judgment—in line with the necessity of engaging with the past in order to shape the future.
Applications for the 2026/2027 school year may be submitted by 27 March 2026 via email to: wettbewerb@schulen.essen.de