What is technology education?

For us, technology education means providing young people with the tools to adapt quickly to the challenges of our time in a dynamic digitalized world. It means developing technical solutions to issues such as resource scarcity and energy generation, as well as an awareness of nature, and innovating in ways that benefit everyone/people and the planet. 

Our goal

We believe that technological innovation requires being future-oriented, staying ahead of the curve and working consistently to realise one’s vision as our founder Karl Schlecht has done, both in his business career and in his philanthropy.  

In 2004, KSG endowed a chair for wind energy at the University of Stuttgart, when wind farm construction was still facing significant political and community resistance, and we continue to support technology and social innovation labs in several higher education institutions, schools and extra-curricular programmes.  

Through these programmes, we enable young people to develop their curiosity and skills and promote a spirit of innovation in social and economic spaces. "Made in Germany," we believe, should remain a mark of outstanding technology and excellent engineering. 

Why is technology education important?

Strength in technological innovation means being ahead of the times, creating paths through unexplored terrain. Such a pioneering spirit requires an environment that allows new solutions to emerge through playful and creative approaches.   

Methods such as design thinking and Lego Serious Play are one example - but what is needed above all is practical action and space to put ideas into practice. That is, an environment for putting new ideas into concrete practice using the latest technologies, and a network that  facilitates testing market and economic viability at an early stage of development. 

As Thomas Alva Edison (U.S. inventor and entrepreneur 1847 - 1931) said: "Invention: one percent inspiration - ninety-nine percent perspiration."