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.

Hartmut Spieß on the field
23.11.2021

Pioneer in plant breeding: Federal Cross of Merit for Dr Hartmut Spieß

At the end of October 2021, Dr Hartmut Spieß received the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. Minister of State Priska Hinz presented the award at a ceremony in Wiesbaden. In her address, she paid tribute to his pioneering work for organic agriculture, especially in the field of seed health and breeding.

Young people in the field
16.11.2021

Dietary Transformation made easy: Tiny Farms Academy

Tiny Farms is the name of a Berlin start-up which aims to produce and market organic vegetables by way of a growing network of micro-farms. In line with this, the founders are, with the support of SAGST, developing a one-year training course, which efficiently prepares prospective managers of such small businesses for their tasks.

DWS team at recording party (before Corona)
09.11.2021

Educating and forming Bonds of Friendship in times of the Coronavirus

The Diesterweg Scholarship (DWS) Darmstadt perceives itself as an educational project for the whole family. It has already for eight years been accompanying schoolchildren during the transition to secondary schools, also assisting their parents, as well as their siblings. This Fall, the DWS has started a new round. In the interview those responsible look back on a special fourth round in times of the coronavirus, and provide insight into the course of the family scholarship.  ...

Dr. Katrin Grüber
02.11.2021

Everyone wants to be heard: New Investigation designed to strengthen the Rights of People having a high Requirement for Support in everyday Life

In a project set up for two years, the Berlin-based Institute for Humanity, Ethics and Science (IMEW) has focused on men and women with complex cognitive and/or physical limitations and investigated to what extent the needs of these people in everyday life are being given consideration. In the interview, Dr. Katrin Grüber, Head of the IMEW, talks about the principal findings that have come to light from the investigation, published in May 2021.

Children's hands painted with smileys
29.10.2021

Empowered Children, sensitized Adults: Protection from sexualized Violence for Girls and Boys with Impairments

Children and young people need safe havens, where they can feel at home as well as develop in a protected and healthy way. The association Violetta e. V. is committed to the cause of children being raised free of physical harm and discrimination. The specialist counseling center has, for over 30 years, been dedicated to protecting minors and young adults from sexualized violence. In that respect, in the context of a three-year project it is placing a particular focus on impaired boys and girls.  ...