Today’s challenges require fresh approaches and new solutions. Through creative freedom and individualized teaching, the young talents at the Hessen State University of Art and Design (HfG) in Offenbach are trained to solve complex problems. Even during their studies they captivate audiences with their creative ideas and with their professional work ethic leave their mark in the fields of art, media and design.

One of the university's main tasks is to provide the over 650 students and close to 40 professors with excellent working conditions. 

Help enable important leeway

• For the university to develop it is essential that it exploit special opportunities, such as testing new approaches or inviting inspiring minds to Offenbach.
• HfG aspires to attract role models and unconventional thinkers in their respective disciplines to Offenbach through a teaching assignment.
• Further establishing the excellent global reputation of HfG Offenbach requires the provision of special materials and the swift availability of the most innovative technical equipment on a state-of-the-art campus.
• The inspiration students gain from interesting encounters, travel and cooperation agreements worldwide is of exceptional importance to and indeed shapes their careers.
• Students can often only embark fully on their education or their degree thesis if they temporarily have no financial worries. We aspire to make it possible for disadvantaged exceptional talents to study with us.

Without any obligation on your part we would be glad discuss with you interesting funding projects and the opportunities available for you to play an effective role.

If you are planning to support the university as a private individual, company or foundation, are thinking about setting up a foundation or making a donation in support of the university, please contact us confidentially under the contact details listed above. 

We are keen to consider with you where your support can unfold the greatest potential for the university, but primarily first and foremost also about which of our areas of study interests you most. 

As a patron of HfG Offenbach you will disc9over at first hand how young people work with and on their creativity, and how they evolve, thereby releasing fresh impetus. You, your family or your company can experience these development processes in the studios and workshops.

Society and business benefit in various disciplines and think tanks from working with our students and graduates. 

Stephanie Koopmann studied International Cultural Management at the ISW Business School in Freiburg and laid the foundations for her career path at the Metropolitan Opera (NYC, USA). She subsequently worked for the international management consultants Brakeley Ltd (whose client base includes the Max Planck Society, Hannover Medical School, the Pontifical Swiss Guard Foundation, Global Leadership Foundation, WWF International), the female heirs’ association Pecunia, the filia foundation, and The Frankfurt Zoological Society. In 2009 she founded her own consulting firm advised foundations, associations, public institutions and social investors on their strategic commitment to the non-profit sector. These included: the Elbphilharmonie Foundation, the Berlin Palace–Humboldtforum Foundation, Canopus Foundation, Kronberg Academy Foundation, the University Medical Center in Mainz, Children for a better World, VITA assistance dogs, Wissensfabrik – Unternehmen für Deutschland (the Knowledge Factory – Companies for Germany)

Stephanie Koopmann has been the head of the Funding of Art and Design department at HfG Offenbach since September 2016.​