Budget defended: facts and fiction once again wins the contract for the framework agreement with the BMWE
facts and fiction defends the budget of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The agency secures the framework agreement for event and conference management for another three years with an option to extend. Its responsibilities include the conception, planning, and implementation of a wide variety of national event formats for the BMWE.
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The BMWE brings together stakeholders from politics, business, science, and society at its events. The focus is on topics such as innovation, digitalization, competitiveness, small and medium-sized enterprises, and sustainable growth. facts and fiction will continue to support the ministry in translating these complex topics into lively formats—from specialist conferences and dialogue forums to public events.
Over the past four years, facts and fiction has worked with the BMWE to organize numerous specialist events such as symposiums, conferences, and congresses, as well as citizen-oriented formats for the general public. Highlights of recent years include several Digital Summits, the G7 Ministerial Meeting, three editions of the Industry Conference, the National Maritime Conference, the Democracy Festival, and the Open House. The first events to be held as part of the ongoing collaboration in 2025 are participation in German Unity Day in Saarbrücken and Foreign Trade Day in Berlin in October, as well as the Annual Regional Policy Conference in Chemnitz in November.
Digitalgipfel 2024 (Copyright: J. Konrad Schmidt)
says Sven Wolgram, managing partner of facts and fiction.
Demokratiefest 2024 (Copyright:: J. Konrad Schmidt)
The BMWE is one of three federal ministries currently served by facts and fiction. In addition to the Ministry of Economics, the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) are also among its clients. The agency has been working in Berlin since 2009 for ministries, institutions, and associations, developing a wide variety of formats for them in the context of political discourse.
About facts and fiction
facts and fiction is an interdisciplinary creative agency with more than 70 permanent employees in Cologne and Berlin. The agency was founded in Cologne in 1992. facts and fiction conceives, designs, and implements innovative analog and digital projects in the fields of art, culture, business, and science. The focus is on museums and exhibitions, expo pavilions, events, exhibits, and digital solutions for participatory and individualized experiences.
facts and fiction has developed the pavilions for Germany, Austria, and the EU for the World Expo in Japan, which will take place in Osaka from April to October 2025. The agency has 25 years of Expo experience and, with Japan, will have implemented a total of 13 country participations. Major projects already completed in the field of public museums and exhibitions include the Mining Museum in Bochum and the Berlin Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. The agency is currently working on the design of the Zeppelin Tribune and Zeppelin Field learning and meeting place in Nuremberg, a permanent exhibition for the Natural History Museum in Basel, and the permanent exhibition of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, among other projects. In Berlin, facts and fiction is active in the field of political communication: the agency develops a wide variety of analog, hybrid, and digital event formats and exhibitions in the context of political discourse for ministries, institutions, and associations. In 2024, it was able to defend the budget of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN).
facts and fiction has implemented more than 700 projects in 50 countries and has already received numerous awards for its work, including the BIE Award, the iF Communication Award, the ADC Competition, the Galaxy Award, and the Red Dot Award.