The projects we support are
our windows to the world.

The projects we support are
our windows to the world.

What We Support

Project Insights

The goal of our public relations work is to make our current activities and exemplary projects more visible. That’s why the people and initiatives that we support take center stage, both in our print publications and on our website. Lighthouse projects both large and small are given a special place.

Here, we provide short updates that reveal current happenings among our projects. In addition, we present in-depth reports and interviews that create a vivid picture of the initiatives that our foundation is privileged to enable and support.

To make this possible, our public relations team visits many of the projects together with the responsible project managers and gets to know the organizations and people on location.

We hope that these reports, in text and image, help to orient engaged individuals regarding possible support from the Software AG Foundation (SAGST) – and encourage them to tread new paths.

Advice with laptop and telephone
21.10.2020

Digital Coaching to get through the Crisis – Smart Hero Award for “Straßenkinder e. V.”

Lots to celebrate at Berlin’s “Straßenkinder” association: its “Digital Coaching – Not Only in Times of Crisis” project was awarded a special coronavirus-related prize at the 2020 Smart Hero Awards in late September. The “Digital Chancen” Foundation and Facebook give their Smart Hero Awards to projects in several categories that use social media for good causes. The special prizes worth € 7,500 each also honour outstanding commitment in our coronavirus era this year.  ...

Children harvesting apples
19.10.2020

Experiencing Biodiversity hands-on: UN Award for the Schwalbennest Kindergarten Farm

Feeding cows, building an insect hotel or tilling your own vegetable patch: at the Schwalbennest (Swallow’s Nest) kindergarten farm on Lake Constance, there’s never a dull moment. The activity-based educational programme that is close to nature has now received an award as part of the UN Decade of Biological Diversity.

Employee and teenager in the café
16.10.2020

There for each other in Erkrath

Strengthening children, encouraging adolescents and supporting families: that is the aim of the “füreinander” association founded in Erkrath in 2012. In the borough of Sandheide, which is considered a socially deprived area, the initiative campaigns with full-time and volunteer workers for disadvantaged children and young people. The “MOSAIK” youth club and the “cube” café have been created as places with a familiar environment.

Children play in the sandpit of the garden
14.10.2020

Growing in Solidarity: Sustainable environmental Education at Binzen Farm Kindergarten

A learning and experiential field for the senses that is close to nature: in the southern Baden municipality of Binzen, “Die Gartenkinder” (= The Farm Kindergarten Children) sow, reap and process food with their own hands. The Farm Kindergarten, of the same name, cooperates closely with a local Demeter market garden, and in that way lays the foundation for sustainable environmental education.

Father and daughter do homework
07.10.2020

Making sure that the first Day of School is easy: “familY” is good for Parents and Children

The “familY“ program of the educational organization “EDUCATION Y” focuses on families as the key component of the educational system. This is why it assists parents in providing support to their children as they proceed from kindergarten to elementary school – which is a key prerequisite for continued success in learning. Since 2017 the International Family Center in Frankfurt am Main (Internationales Familienzentrum) has seen positive results with that, too.