HHU’s Endowment Portfolio
At HHU, we strive for excellence in research and an outstanding academic education for our students. There are many ways to get involved with the HHU Civic University. The establishment of a dependent foundation or an endowment to the university foundation is a long-term investment in the future of science and the promotion of young talent.
Endowing at HHU generates a win-win situation: you ensure that the purpose of your endowment will continue to have an effect in your favour after your death. The university generates free funds to be able to react quickly and flexibly to new challenges in science, research and teaching. There are various legal forms to realise your ideas and ensure the future viability of your idea:
- With an endowment, you increase the foundation's capital.
- By setting up an endowment fund, you can define a funding purpose. The endowment fund bears the name of your choice.
- By investing in the HHU University Foundation, you are investing in important scientific projects of the future. The University Foundation is recognised as a non-profit organisation.
- In a testamentary disposition in favour of HHU, you can specify exactly how your assets are to be used.
1. Zustiftung
- 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. Eigene Stiftung an der 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