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Staff
A total of 570 (2005) in the offices in Bonn and Berlin, the four
academies and thirteen State and regional offices and abroad.
Budget
Approximately 111 million Euro (2005); mainly public funding.
Events
In Germany alone more than 150,000 persons took part in
some 3,000 educational courses, discussion forums and special-subject
conferences in 2005.
International cooperation
Activities in more than 100 countries.
Scholarships
Approximately 1700 students received a scholarship in 2003,
250 of them from abroad. Over 400 new scholarships were awarded
that same year.
Library
Largest specialized library on the German and international labour
movement with over 700,000 volumes.
Archives
Largest collection of documents on the history of the labour movement
in Germany.
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) was founded
in 1925 as a political legacy of Germany's first democratically
elected president, Friedrich Ebert. 
Friedrich Ebert (1871 - 1925), a Social Democrat
from a humble crafts background who had risen to hold the highest
political office in his country, in response to his own painful
experience in political confrontation had proposed the establishment
of a foundation to serve the following aims:
· Furthering political und social education
of individuals from all walks of life in the spirit of democracy
and pluralism,
· Facilitating access to university education and research
for gifted young people by providing scholarships,
· Contributing to international understanding and cooperation.
The Foundation, which was banned by the Nazis
in 1933 and not re-established until 1947, continues today to pursue
these aims in all its extensive activities.
As a private cultural non-profit institution, it
is committed to the ideas and basic values of social democracy.
For more information, see English
Flyer
http://www.fes.de/inhalt/Dokumente_2007/FES SD 2006 GB.pdf
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