The charitable Institute for Social Banking of Witten, Germany, offers training and research on socially and ecologically oriented banking or "ethical banking". It was founded in 2006 by 12 ethical banking and finance institutions with the aim to deepen education for socially oriented banking and finance employees. The Institute for Social Banking also addresses the broader public to inform about the possibility of an alternative banking and finance system.
The main projects of the Institute for Social Banking are a Certificate Course in Social Banking and an annual Summer School on the topic. Furthermore, the Institute offers seminars to bankers, students and other interested people and is currently developing a curriculum on Social Banking in co-operation with the Alanus University.
Currently, the Institute for Social Banking consists of 15 member institutions.