HHU’s Endowment Portfolio
At HHU, we strive to achieve excellence in research and provide students with an outstanding education. The Citizens’ University at HHU offers you a variety of ways to provide support. Setting up your own dependent foundation or arranging an endowment to the University Foundation is a long-term investment in the future of science and the promotion of young talents.
Becoming an HHU donor creates a win-win situation: You ensure that your foundation remains true to its purpose after your death in line with your wishes. The University generates funds to enable a quick and flexible response to new challenges in science, research and teaching. Various legal forms are available to realise and ensure the future viability of your idea:
- You can increase the foundation capital via an endowment.
- You can define a specific purpose for your support by establishing an endowment fund, which bears the name you choose.
- By contributing to the HHU University Foundation, you are investing in important future research projects. The University Foundation is recognised as a charitable organisation.
By making a bequest to HHU in your will, you can define exactly how your estate should be used
1. Endowment contribution
- Recommended up to €100,000
- No administrative costs
- Funding of research or teaching
- Significant tax benefits
- Long-term and sustainable
- For example: small estates, anniversaries
2. Donations to the endowment fund
- Recommended above €100,000
- Low administrative costs
- The fund bears the name you choose
- Significant tax benefits
- Long-term and sustainable
- You choose whether to support research or teaching
- Aligned to the purpose of the University Foundation (support for research or teaching)
- For example: larger estates, special purposes (research areas, prizes, tributes)
3. Own foundation at HHU
- Recommended above €500,000
- Dependent foundation at HHU
- Low administrative costs
- Agreement on subsequent incorporation into the University Foundation possible,
- e.g. after 10 or 20 years, or after your death
- Sustainable support beyond your lifetime
- For example: definition of an academic focus or strengthening of a university profile area
- HHU offers tailored solutions for each individual case on the basis of a non-binding, comprehensive consultation without any preconceived views as to the outcome