• The projects we support
    are our windows onto the world.

  • [Translate to English:] Die von uns geförderten Projekte sind
    unsere Fenster in die Welt.

  • The projects we support
    are our windows onto the world.

  • [Translate to English:] Die von uns geförderten Projekte sind
    unsere Fenster in die Welt.

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.

Youths with microphone and camera working on a media project for school
31.03.2014

“We've got to turn Waldorf schools on their heads” – Self-directed Learning at Waldorf Schools

Since 2005, a practical research project titled “Self-directed Learning in Waldorf Schools” has been carried out by developmental facilitator Michael Harslem and Dirk Randoll, Professor for Empirical Social Research at Alanus University for Arts and Social Sciences near Bonn. They recently published a book that presents the theoretical foundations for self-directed learning (SDL) as well as over 40 practical projects developed in Waldorf schools.

Pupils in front of the entrance of the new Waldorf school in Rosia
31.03.2014

“Giving Children a Strong Start in Life” – Construction of a Waldorf Kindergarten for Roma Children in Romania

About two million of the over 20 million inhabitants of Romania are Roma; more members of this minority group live there than in any other country. The Roma there fight against discrimination and structural disadvantages. Many live literally on the edges of society. For over one million Roma children, these conditions do not offer them a good start in life.

Youths in white clothing performing on a stage
06.01.2014

TheaterTotal – Moving People to the Core

What's really needed in our society, and what can one individual contribute? 18 years ago, actress Barbara Wollrath-Kramer asked herself these very questions - and found a very unique answer when she founded the project TheaterTotal in Bochum.

The House and sunny terrace of Kinderhaus AtemReich
10.12.2013

AtemReich: A Children's Home for Seriously Ill Children in Munich

The AtemReich children's home is a care facility for children and teens with serious breathing difficulties who need intensive care or artificial respiration. (AtemReich means “breath-rich”). The residents are up to 18 years of age. AtemReich offers children a family-like home where they are cared for by a team of trained doctors, caregivers, educators, and therapists. Emergency care is optimally secured by a 24-hour hotline to an adjacent children's hospital, the Dritter Orden Clinic.

Visitors in front of one building at the village project
10.12.2013

The Juchowo Village Project – Diverse Activities in Agriculture

In the diverse cultural landscape of Western Pomerania in north-west Poland, the village project Juchowo-Radacz-Kądzielnia was organized in 2001 by the Stanisław Karlowski Foundation. There, a number of families from Central and Western Europe, with a great deal of pioneer spirit and competence, worked together with Polish workers to build a farm which operates according to the principles of biodynamic farming.