| Purposes and Projects of the ZKS-Foundation

The Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation supports, encourages and develops top research in the fields of engineering and environmental sciences as well as of all medieval disciplines including medieval studies.
The ZKS-Foundation realizes its aim principally by subsidizing research projects, by granting subsidies and scholarships to researchers and academics of any nationality that devote themselves to fore-mentioned fields of research.
The Foundation also proceeds by granting prizes or other rewards for new and important research work in both domains. The ZKS-Foundation can also make donations to universities of all countries for their needs in research equipment as well as support conferences and other scientific meetings.
The ZKS-Foundation is managed by a Foundation Council which consists of five members one of whom is the Founder; the other four members being two representatives of the Université de Genève, Geneva, and another two of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. The Foundation Board has all necessary decisional powers to ensure the realization of the Foundation's purposes. It can, nevertheless, call on external specialists. As any other foundation, the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation is subject to the control by the Swiss Federal Office of Foundations’ Supervision.