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For a monetary and financial system that serves people and protects our livelihoods.

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FaFin conducts research for a sustainable monetary and financial system. To this end, it brings together people, perspectives, scientific disciplines and organisations, creates transformative learning and experience spaces and develops practical solutions together.

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This section contains updates and interesting facts from FaFin.

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New FaFin project

EU Sustainable Finance Framework

The project on the EU Sustainable Finance Framework aims to ensure ambitious and consistent criteria in the EU sustainable finance framework.
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Joint project of iff and FaFin

Accompanying study on gender lens investing

What is the logic behind the actions of private investors and fund providers with regard to products that can be categorised as gender lens investing (GLI)? How should this be assessed in relation to blended finance? To what extent is GLI already being used in German-speaking countries and what factors can be identified that promote and hinder it?
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FaFin – Fair Finance Lab gGmbH founded

Fair Finance Institute with greater organisational and personal clout and a new look

The Fair Finance Institute (FaFin), which has been working for a fair and sustainable monetary and financial system for many years, has continued to develop and strengthen itself.
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Interdisciplinary research

Realising scientific projects

FaFin conducts research into a sustainable monetary and financial system. To this end, it brings together different perspectives, scientific disciplines and institutions.

Educate comprehensively

Opening up transformative learning and experience spaces

FaFin enables people, organisations and systems for the necessary socio-ecological transformation.

Shaping together

Creating momentum for sustainability

The monetary and financial system requires a variety of changes for a successful socio-ecological transformation. FaFin makes concrete contributions to this.

Initiating networks

Bringing people together

FaFin has a broad network and is itself an initiator of networks. The aim is to implement projects together and support cooperation between different people and organisations.

Promoting dialogue

Giving space to professional debates

FaFin organises its own events to promote professional exchange on a sustainable monetary and financial system and offers leaders space for open discourse.

Dealing with challenges

Thinking and acting systemically

FaFin pursues a comprehensive approach that goes far beyond traditional sustainable finance topics and combines issues such as climate, monetary and financial policy.

Projects

What we work on

FaFin realises a wide range of projects, information on which can be found here.

Projects that were or are still being worked on under Markus Duscha’s freelance work and not at FaFin gGmbH (more under History) are labelled accordingly.

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EU Sustainable Finance Framework

Ensuring Consistency and Ambition

The project on the EU Sustainable Finance Framework aims to ensure ambitious and consistent criteria in the EU sustainable finance framework. Its instruments (e.g. EU Taxonomy, CSRD, SFDR, etc.) need to be ambitious to include economic sectors that meet ambitious environmental requirements
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Turnaround money II

Rethinking municipal finances (workshop series)

Against the backdrop of current developments in the field of sustainable finance, the project aims to develop concrete, innovative and structural solutions in a series of workshops together with relevant stakeholders.
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EU Sustainable Finance Regulation

Selected human rights indicators

The overall aim of the research project was to develop concepts and exemplary indicators for the standardised measurement of the social sustainability of economic activities and companies.
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Fair Finance
Institute

There is a stable monetary and financial system that naturally integrates social and ecological criteria and has found its way back to its main function: serving the real economy. There is still a lot to do to achieve this.

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Markus Duscha
Founder of the Fair Finance Institute and Managing Partner

The non-profit status as an organisational form was deliberately chosen because in future all companies should be oriented towards the common good. The Fair Finance Institute wants to set an example in this respect.

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Walter Kern
Partner and Authorised Representive

A monetary and financial system that actively promotes socio-ecological transformation needs new ideas and technologies, social innovations and future-oriented concepts. The Fair Finance Institute contributes to this.

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Gesa Vögele
Managing Partner

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The Fair Finance Institute sends out a newsletter (in German) three to five times a year containing information on its own projects and activities as well as on generally interesting and relevant topics relating to sustainability and the financial system.

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