About us

The exponentially growing world population is strictly related to the increasing shortage of natural resources. In our capitalist system, potential hardships and conflicts over wealth distribution can only be avoided through economic growth and prosperity. As factors of production, land, labour, energy and capital  are gaining more and more significance. There is a growing need for them to be utilised more effectively and efficiently on a global scale, that is, in an intelligent way.

Taking into account the depleting resources, sustainable economic growth is only possible through effective innovations in all areas (such as climate, agriculture, technology, energy, logistics, manufacturing, communications, education) and with a reasonable ethical, ecological and economic approach. Innovation is thus the single most effective way  to economic growth.

However, the life cycle of products and thus the lifespan of innovations are shortened by the rapid growth of progress and imitative competition. As a result, there is a continuous pressure to innovate in all possible areas of businesses such as markets, products, technologies, methods and procedures, structures and processes. Innovation activity and innovation capacity are therefore key factors for the survival of companies in the ongoing competition, and they also guarantee sustainable social prosperity.

Effective and meaningful innovations can only be achieved by competent individuals and their cooperation. Cooperation within and beyond corporate boundaries (i.e. customers, partners and suppliers) is becoming more and more international, and most often it takes place virtually on a global scale. Team members often come from various countries and belong to completely different cultures. These diversely engaged teams often create their own, culturally distinct innovations, which are then exported to other countries with different cultures.

The overall educational system on the globe is facing the challenge of making and keeping people fit for the emerging knowledge community, which does not only involve a particular intellectual elite or individuals at a young age,  but it expands to the global population on the whole! This process does not simply mean the conveyance and accumulation of inert knowledge, but rather the provision of a framework in which competencies can be developed. In a time of rapidly increasing changes, it is through competence alone that people can become capable of active and self-determined participation in public life.

Fair access to education for everyone and a paradigm shift from qualifications to competence building – these are the most important requirements to respond to by means of innovative educational concepts worldwide. These constitute a social duty and an obligation that every one of us can actively contribute to! This is also the purpose for which the KOMUNIKI PROJECT was established.

About the KOMUNIKI PROJECT:

Knowledge Cloud Capacity Building

In collaboration with leading academic scholars, KOMUNIKI developed the concept of a Web 2.0-based learning system: the Social Web Academy. The specially adapted Web 2.0 functions, combined with competence building training courses, enable the formation of online intercultural learning groups worldwide, and support the overall effects and learning processes necessary for competence building. For the first time ever, this innovative learning system allows competence development and knowledge transfer free of time and space restrictions in a largely online-based environment, the Social Web Academy. Participants’ individual learning speed and style are also taken into account, which enhances learning efficiency. This is a revolutionary concept: the Social Web Academy becomes a wordlwide centralised, holistic organisational and communicational platform for broad knowledge transfer that enables ongoing training and competence development.

As a non-profit organisation, KOMUNIKI pursues purely academic goals:  the KOMUNIKI PROJECT aims to allow people around the globe access to world-class education – and at affordable fees for everyone.

Our training courses and online services are designed to help our members communicate more successfully in their respective cultural environments and resolve their international / intercultural tasks or conflicts more easily. The costs of implementing and operating the global Social Web Academy amount to several millions of euros. These are enormous sums of money that cannot and should not even be provided by one investor only!

How This Should Function? The Idea is Simple:

1. The enormous costs, such as for the further development of the online portal and its new online training courses, are to be funded entirely by sponsors and through crowd financing. Training course moderation is mainly performed by voluntary online tutors from international universities.
2. We offer our members highest quality training and many other benefits in exchange for a small membership fee, which is even less than the price of a single reference book! The fees collected from our numerous members make it possible for every one of them to have lifelong access to these benefits.
3. The entire revenue will be invested in the KOMUNIKI PROJECT. KOMUNIKI is a non-profit organisation. It has no investors, nor is there a distribution of profits. The KOMUNIKI PROJECT belongs entirely to its members!
4. Our sponsors are our members and companies that are actively involved and, to the best of their possibilities, take their share of (corporate) social responsibility and shape KOMUNIKI.

What Will Happen Next?

For the completion and launch of the platform and its first basic training courses two million euros are needed. The search for sponsors was already started on 29 April 2012. We welcome every single donation as it brings us closer to our goals.

As a registered non-profit organisation, KOMUNIKI is exempted from corporation and trade tax. Membership fees and donations are fully tax deductible as special expenses. KOMUNIKI is authorised to issue donation receipts for membership fees and donations by means of officially prescribed forms (§ 50 par.1 of the Income Tax Implementation Regulations).

KOMUNIKI is a start-up company. The non-profit KOMUNIKI Foundation GUG was founded in March 2012 and has its headquarters in Aachen, Germany.

KOMUNIKI is supported by active members and businesses of our society, that is, by individuals who are procative within their capabilities, recognize the importance of their social responsibility, and shape KOMUNIKI. We call this mutual corporate social responsibility.

Become an active member yourself! Shape KOMUNIKI with us and help us provide excellent education for as many people as possible wordlwide .

Learn more about our planned training courses:

America Training

(planned)

North America

Practice, amongst other things: typical situations in negotiating with business partners from Canada and the United States as well as the solving of conflicts. Learn about practical strategies for a more conducive cooperation...

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America Training

(planned)

Latin America

Joie de vivre and prospects of growth in Latin America! Here you practice, amongst other things, the culture-adequate communication with market participants from Brazil, Peru or Chile. Learn to know and use the culture-specific map of this region...

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Orient Training

(planned)

Middle East

Shareholder from the Middle East or project manager in Dubai. Here you prepare yourself in a targeted manner, amongst other things, for the cooperation and learn to assess in better detail the culture-specific values, codes of conduct and prevalent behaviour!...

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Asia Training

(planned)

East Asia

Practice, amongst other things, how to speedily arrive at “real” consensus in Japan and how you build personal networks in China in a sustained way. Learn about culture-specific listening techniques and the typical etiquette of private and business contexts...

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