einleitung
<br>The FES is the educational and scientific party foundation the Social Democratic Party. It operates in the formal framework political education financed by the federal state. So it gets the by far greatest part of its funding in significant part out of the coffers of the federal parliament and the states. It aims to the renewal of social democracy and creation of social and economic justice, the social dimension of globalization, the intensification of the dialogue between the state and trade unions and the promotion of political participation and civic cohesion. It awards scholarships for students and graduates, and organizes public events publishes books, studies and analyses. By staff and financial backing it is the largest political foundation in Germany as well as by far the largest of the FEPS network. Connected to the SPD it is but organisationally independent and has the legal form of a registered association.
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Its operations are overseen by a board of 11 people, final decisions and the election of the board are down to the general assembly of now 132 people (effective 2015/05). Members of the association are coopted resp. approved by the general assembly itself to safeguard the stability of the political orientation.
There are five main departments
* political operations and advice (with the subdivisions: political academy, political dialogue & social and economic policy)
* international cooperation (with the subdivisions: international development cooperation & international dialogue)
* scientific work (with the subdivisions: scholarships & archive of the social democracy)
* administration
The subdivision social and economic policy organizes eight working groups and the managerial circle of the FES (Managerkreis der FES).
The working groups are on:
* labour, work and qualification
* health policy and old-age security
* trade unions
* sustainable structure policy
* migration and integration
* consumers and small firm sector
* mobility and urban development + tax policy
* economic and financial policy + foreign trade
topics_anmerkungen
The listing of topics the FES works on can be thought as exhaustive.