Especially in developing and emerging countries the shortage of electrical power supply keeps large parts of the population from overcoming their poverty.

Without access to a power supply to light their huts and houses, charge batteries, or run electrical devices such as phones, radios, TVs, or fans, rural low income communities have no access to the simplest requirements for connecting to the “world”, taking up employment, or acquiring knowledge.

Only a limited number of economists predicted the imminent crash of international financial markets, and retrospective analyses of the causes were in part contradictory.

Knowledge in the fields of social science and the humanities including economic history, scientific theory, and ethics turns into a marginal phenomenon of academia.

Since 2014 the Canopus Foundation has been a shareholder of the Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform (HVGP) gGmbH in Berlin; since 2015 it has been supporting the Cusanus University in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany.

Towards this end the Canopus Foundation provides additional technical expertise, management skills and market intelligence where needed.

Ashoka (non-profit organization), Elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization, Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform (HVGP)gGmbH, Cusanus University.