It is the aim of the Funding of Art and Design section to promote and deepen the understanding of and support for the needs and goals of the University with partners, friends and sponsors. In doing so it seeks to establish and cultivate a strategic and integrative relationship management for the University.

The section for the Funding of Art and Design provides advice relating to donations, sponsoring and the Deutschlandstipendium grant, as well as to all questions on the funding and support of the University. This is offered to sponsors, firms, private individuals or foundations, artists, designers, scientists, students or members of the University executive.

• Fundraising – Securing the acquiring of additional (non-state) funding and resources in accordance with the strategic aims of the University

• Network development – Activating, cultivating and incorporating potential sponsors as disseminators, ambassadors, door-openers and contributors as well as other stakeholders

• Public relations – with individuals and stakeholders from the worlds of politics, business and culture, city and state, as well as the media

Adrienne von Hochberg, born 1969 in Solingen, studied history and political science in Heidelberg and Berlin. After her studies she worked as a freelance editor for numerous film production companies and the NDR. In 2015, she established the coordination office of the Network Women with Format in Science and Business as co-founder at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In this context she developed the concept of the career conference KURSWECHSEL for (post-)doctoral students in order to make career paths outside the university visible. Due to the nationwide and interdisciplinary response, KURSWECHSEL 2018 took place for the second time. Since November 2018 she has been in charge of the area of Funding of Art & Design at the HfG.