Berlin-based tech policy think tank; confirmed via this research round to still be active (not defunct, correcting an earlier assumption) — currently publishes under interface-eu.org.
Funding — concentration risk
Principal funders identified: Stiftung Mercator, the Zeiss foundation network, and the Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office) — a mix of private-foundation and government-ministry money, structurally similar to Bertelsmann Stiftung’s foundation-embedded model in that independence-from-funder questions could plausibly be raised. No specific criticism to that effect was found in this research round — absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.
Strategic relevance to SINE
Another data point in the “small European tech-policy think tank funded by a concentrated set of foundation/government grants” category — worth watching for any future public criticism of funder independence, and a reminder that SINE’s own funder concentration (currently unknown/ undisclosed publicly, per the website-crawl dossier’s finding of no public funders list) is worth clarifying internally before it becomes an external question.
Sources
sources/research/2026-08-05-competitor-tech-for-good-ngos.md
(Stiftung Neue Verantwortung section; live web research, 2026-08-05).