Yes, we place the highest demands on security and data protection. The software we use to process your online donation is hosted in a German data center. Your sensitive donor data is transmitted exclusively via secure SSL encryption.

Of course! We are happy to receive machine donations from industry. Please feel free to contact us.

By setting up a permanent donation (e.g. 625 Euro per month for a Symbolic Building Block for the project duration of 24 months) or by becoming a multiplier for the ISC Konstanz and reporting about our work.

All you need to do is send an informal message to spenden@isc-konstanz.de or by mail to ISC Konstanz e.V., Rudolf-Diesel-Str. 15, 78467 Konstanz, Germany.

Yes. The software for processing your data is hosted in a German data center according to German data protection laws. Your sensitive donor data is transmitted exclusively via secured SSL lines. This guarantees that the highest standards of security and data protec-tion are met.

We use your data to send you requested information and also to process your donations with the help of service providers. Our service providers also work strictly in accordance with German data protection regulations. Beyond that, we do not pass on your data to third parties.

Feel free to use the online donation form on our website and donate there paypal. Alterna-tively, you can of course transfer money directly to our donation account:
GLS Bank
DE23 4306 0967 7009 9157 00
Intended purpose: Zukunft23-online

(You can scan the QR code directly with your online banking app).

We are not a public institute or university, so we do not receive basic funding from the public sector. However, the big advantage is our independence: we can act quickly and be-nefit from lean structures and uncomplicated decision-making processes. In a sense, we are the “speedboat” in solar energy research – which is why we are able to actually turn our in-dustry-oriented research into production. We also receive public funding to a limited extent – but it is project-related and therefore cannot be used for a new building or for the main-tenance and equipping of buildings.

Our business model is successful and has stood the test of time for 17 years, through all cri-ses. We cannot manage a project as large as the new construction of the ISC research cen-ter on our own, despite the stable foundations – not at the speed that is now necessary in the energy transition. We are investing in the future and in the livelihood of future genera-tions. This is such a large and important project that we need “co-investors” to shoulder it with us.

We are competing with institutes that are publicly funded – including the buildings they use. If we raise our prices too much to make the new research center financially possible, our prices will no longer be competitive with those of our competitors.

The energy turnaround decided by politicians and important for achieving the 1.5 degree target is based on the massive conversion from fossil to sustainable energy sources, which also include solar energy. Photovoltaics, as the world’s cheapest source of energy, is very li-kely to attract more attention from politicians and society in the next few years. In parallel, technology imports from China are coming under increasing criticism for strategic and ethi-cal reasons. Last but not least, the dependence on Russia is leading to a rethinking in Ger-many towards the desire to make its own energy production as self-sufficient as possible.

In Constance, prices are generally rather high. However, it makes a lot of sense and is very efficient to build the new research center directly on the existing site. This way, the ISC avoids an interruption of operations, which would probably cause more costs and reduce the necessary project speed.