What we do

The Progressive Zentrum is an independent thinktank, founded in 2007 as a non-for profit initiative. In other countries thinktanks have long established a dynamic market for ideas and have become key players in public debates. Like all industrialised countries, Germany will need to find answers to the challenges triggered by the rapid socio-economic, cultural, technological and ecological transformations of the 21st century. Thus it can only benefit from a lively conglomerate of innovative institutions catering to the need for modernisation.

The Progressive Zentrum aims to:

• pursue a political agenda that promotes progressive politics and reform in Germany;

• shape a new understanding of progress – a new progressive narrative for a modern dynamic society, a just economy and a modern state of the 21st century;

• analyse future problems and develop progressive, scientifically based solutions;

• link discussions in Germany to international debates through bringing together key actors from academia, the media, business and politics;

• provide a platform for an international exchange of ideas in particular for the next generation of progressive thinkers, researchers and policymakers.