IZRD e.V.

What IZRD e.V. does

IZRD e.V. (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Radikalisierungsprävention und Demokratieförderung e.V., or Interdisciplinary Centre for the Prevention of Radicalisation and Promotion of Democracy) is a registered German non-profit association (eingetragener Verein) headquartered in Berlin-Lichtenberg at Normannenstraße 1-2, founded in July 2022. It delivers counselling, training, qualification programmes, networking, and policy publications aimed at preventing religiously motivated extremism, transnational extremism, conspiracy narratives, and group-focused enmity. Core offerings include the Veritas counselling centre (Beratungsstelle Veritas) for affected individuals and families; the dist[ex] federal infrastructure project for disengagement and exit work; the NetzHelden 60+ digital literacy programme; the AFETS school-based antifeminism curriculum (ERASMUS+); the WelEx qualification for worldview and extremism commissioners; the SIT training series for psychotherapists; a multi-year Kinderschutz & Extremismus course for Berlin school professionals; and a methodological counselling handbook with an English translation.

The underlying technology stack is standard NGO infrastructure rather than proprietary technology: Microsoft 365 for office collaboration (via Microsoft's Non-Profit Programme), Brevo for email newsletters, reteach for training delivery, Hetzner for web hosting, Sophos and Action1 for endpoint and patch security, and Cloudflare (Project Galileo) for DDoS protection. Freifunk Berlin provides on-premises WiFi. There is no disclosed AI/ML capability, no proprietary platform, and no software-as-a-service product.

The business model is non-commercial: IZRD is funded entirely by tax-deductible donations and public grants from federal programmes including 'Demokratie leben!', the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF), and ERASMUS+. All counselling, training, and educational services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries. The customer base spans affected individuals, family members, educators, school social workers, psychotherapists, and adults aged 60+. Distribution combines in-person delivery at the Berlin office with digital formats including online courses, webinars, virtual expert lectures, and self-study e-learning modules, at national scope within Germany and selective EU reach through ERASMUS+.

Name

IZRD e.V.

Legal name

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Radikalisierungsprävention und Demokratieförderung e.V.

Website

https://izrd.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IZRD e.V. is a Berlin-based non-profit association founded in 2022 that delivers free counselling, training, and policy publications to prevent religiously motivated extremism, conspiracy narratives, and group-focused enmity, serving affected individuals, educators, psychotherapists, and adults aged 60+ across Germany.

Ownership category

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Product category

Extremism Prevention and Democracy Promotion

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Individual and Family Services (6241), Educational Support Services (6117)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAJAIAC

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs & Supports

Education/K–12 / Primary & Secondary Education/K–12 Student Health, Safety & Wellbeing Services (Counseling, Mental Health, SEL, Safeguarding)

SECONDARYEDAKAMAE

Behavioral Health & MTSS/RTI Tiered SEL Supports

Education/Special Education & Learning Support Services/Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) & Mental Health Supports (School-Based)

Keywords

• Radicalisation prevention services
• Extremism counselling
• Democracy promotion training
• Disengagement and exit work
• Civil society education

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Funding: As a non-profit association (gemeinnütziger Verein), IZRD operates primarily through donations and public funding from government programs such as 'Demokratie leben!', Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF), and the ERASMUS+ programme. Donations are tax-deductible.

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Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

IZRD e.V. operates as a non-profit interdisciplinary centre providing counselling, professional training, qualification courses, networking events, and evidence-based publications focused on the prevention of religiously motivated extremism, transnational extremism, conspiracy narratives, and group-focused enmity. Its portfolio includes the Veritas counselling centre in Berlin, the federal dist[ex] disengagement and exit work infrastructure, training courses for educators and psychotherapists, digital literacy programmes for older adults, and methodological handbooks for the prevention field. All services are offered free of charge to beneficiaries and funded through public grants and tax-deductible donations.

Product overview

IZRD e.V. operates as an interdisciplinary prevention and democracy promotion organization rather than a traditional technology product company. The organization offers a portfolio of counselling services, training programs, and educational resources focused on radicalization prevention and democracy promotion. The core offerings include: the Veritas counselling centre providing direct support for those affected by conspiracy narratives and extremism; the dist[ex] federal infrastructure project coordinating nationwide disengagement and exit work; NetzHelden 60+ training for digital literacy among older adults; AFETS school training on antifeminism; the methodological counselling handbook; WelEx qualification for extremism officers; SIT training for psychotherapists; and the child protection training course. These services are primarily educational, counselling, and networking offerings rather than software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Veritas: Beratungsstelle Veritas - counselling centre in Berlin
• dist[ex]
• NetzHelden 60+
• AFETS
• WelEx
• SIT - Stark in Therapie und Weltanschauungsfragen

Products and services

• Beratungsstelle Veritas (Counselling Centre Veritas) A counselling centre based in Berlin providing direct support for individuals and family members affected by religiously motivated extremism, conspiracy narratives, and extremist worldviews, delivered in-person and remotely.
• dist[ex] - Federal Infrastructure for Disengagement and Exit Work A federal-level cooperation consortium within the 'Demokratie leben!' programme developing nationwide infrastructure for disengagement and exit work, coordinating networking, quality development, and policy advocacy across specialist organisations in Germany.
• NetzHelden 60+ A four-module certification training programme for adults aged 60+ on digital literacy and media competence to help them counter conspiracy ideologies and right-extremist narratives in online social spaces, available in-person in Berlin and digitally.
• AFETS - Antifeminismus und toxische Maskulinität in Schulen An ERASMUS+ project developing practical materials and training to help schools recognise and respond to antifeminism and toxic masculinity, targeting teachers, school psychologists, school social workers, and youth work professionals.
• Methodenlehrbuch Beratung (EXTREM. KOMPETENT. BERATEN.) A methodological handbook for counselling practice in the field of religiously motivated extremism, containing over 60 concrete methods and exercises, with English translation available as a free download.
• WelEx - Qualification Course for Worldview and Extremism Commissioners A qualification programme training professionals as worldview and extremism officers to address extremist worldviews and conspiracy narratives in institutional and counselling settings.
• SIT - Stark in Therapie und Weltanschauungsfragen (Training Series on Worldviews and Extremism) A training series for psychotherapists, psychological counsellors, child and adolescent psychotherapists, and psychiatrists on handling extremist and conspiracy-related worldviews in therapeutic practice, including workshops, expert lectures, and conferences.
• Fortbildungskurs Kinderschutz & Extremismus (Training Course: Child Protection and Extremism) A three-year blended learning training course for Berlin school professionals covering 8 modules with 58 hours of instruction, integrating child protection and extremism prevention concepts for teachers, school social workers, and school psychologists.

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Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Violence Prevention Network gGmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Lead coordinator of the dist[ex] consortium (Development of a Federal Infrastructure for Disengagement and Exit Work), a cooperation within the federal programme 'Demokratie leben!' with an 8-year timeframe. IZRD contributes expertise in cross-phenomenon extremism prevention and systematic exit work.
• BAG Ausstieg zum Einstieg e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Part of the dist[ex] consortium working on nationwide networking and strengthening of disengagement and exit work in Germany.
• Grüner Vogel e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Part of the dist[ex] consortium working on nationwide networking and strengthening of disengagement and exit work in Germany.
• Legato/Vereinigung Pestalozzi gGmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Part of the dist[ex] consortium working on nationwide networking and strengthening of disengagement and exit work in Germany.
• SCENOR e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partner in the ERASMUS+ project AFETS (Antifeminismus und toxische Maskulinität in Schulen), bringing experience from previous projects GameD and CAYET developing digital tools and qualification formats.
• Violence Prevention Network gGmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership in the NetzHelden 60+ project to strengthen digital literacy and media competence among adults 60+ in dealing with conspiracy ideologies and right-extremist narratives.
• cultures interactive e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Co-editor of the Methodenlehrbuch (Method Handbook) 'EXTREM. KOMPETENT. BERATEN.' for counselling in the context of religiously motivated extremism. Also co-published the English translation 'Extreme. Effective. Counselling.'
• MicrosoftminorOthersProvides Microsoft 365 cloud solutions for internal organisation, secure email communication, and efficient team collaboration through the Microsoft Non-Profit programme.
• Freifunk BerlinminorOthersProvides free WiFi for guests and workshop participants in IZRD's premises, and serves as redundant failover for office internet connectivity.
• Sophos & Action1minorOthersSophos provides professional endpoint protection monitoring systems in real-time and defending against malware, ransomware, and targeted attacks. Action1 provides automated patch management for security updates.
• CloudflareminorOthersThrough Project Galileo, provides enterprise-level security solutions protecting digital infrastructure from DDoS attacks, phishing attempts, and targeted cyberattacks.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Grüner Vogel e.V. Non-profit supporting families affected by right-wing extremism and conspiracy ideology. Direct peer: co-member of the dist[ex] consortium and shares family-counselling and prevention-counselling service lines with IZRD.
• Vereinigung Pestalozzi gGmbH (Legato): Swiss-rooted provider of exit and disengagement work in Germany. Direct peer: co-member of the dist[ex] consortium and operates the same kind of exit-from-extremism counselling services that IZRD coordinates nationally.
• BAG Ausstieg zum Einstieg e.V. Federal working group coordinating exit-work organisations across Germany. Direct peer: co-member of the dist[ex] consortium with IZRD and addresses the same exit-from-extremism practitioner community.
• Violence Prevention Network gGmbH: Berlin-based non-profit providing counselling and exit work for individuals exiting violent extremism. Direct peer: co-leads the dist[ex] consortium with IZRD and shares the same federal prevention mandate, target population, and counselling methodology orientation.
• Hayat Deutschland gGmbH: German non-profit offering counselling and family-based intervention for individuals affected by Islamist radicalisation. Direct peer: serves a closely overlapping beneficiary population with similar counselling, training, and family-outreach service models.
• cultures interactive e.V. Berlin-based association for political education and culture work focused on right-wing extremism prevention with youth. Direct peer: co-developed the Methodenlehrbuch with IZRD and shares the same federal prevention ecosystem and youth/school-facing methodology.
• SCENOR e.V. German non-profit developing educational and digital tools around extremism, gender, and school contexts. Direct peer: ERASMUS+ AFETS project partner with IZRD and shares the school-based prevention and qualification-format portfolio.
• ufuq.de: Berlin-based association for youth, political education and prevention of radicalisation. Direct peer: comparable mandate across school-based prevention, training programmes, and educational materials in the same German federal funding context.

Others

• Demokratie leben! (BMFSFJ federal programme): Federal programme of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs that funds most of Germany's extremism-prevention civil-society organisations. Thematically adjacent: not a competitor but the primary funding ecosystem in which IZRD and most direct peers operate.

Broad incumbents

• Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD): International think tank and programme operator working on polarisation, disinformation, and extremism prevention. Broad incumbent: addresses the same thematic space (conspiracy narratives, extremism prevention, democratic resilience) but at global scale rather than as a direct national service competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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