The projects we support
are our windows onto the world.

The projects we support
are our windows onto 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.

Fowering chive
25.03.2019

Fertile Research: Study on Goethean Morphology

From what grounds do the different organs of a flower develop - and what does Goethe have to do with it? A research project on the morphology of rose plants reveals remarkable similarities between modern biology and Goethe's ideas regarding the nature of plants.

Hands of a young woman holding the hand of an older woman
12.03.2019

Attentive, Complementary, and Inclusive: Palliative Care for Individuals with Disabilities

With demographic change and the post-war baby boom generation heading into the last phase of life, death is becoming a more relevant topic for a large portion of society. Yet for many, confronting one’s own death is still a taboo. This is especially true for individuals with disabilities. The European Senior Academy (ESA) – with the support of the Software AG Foundation (SAGST) – aims to break this societal silence with its palliative care concept for individual care institutions.

08.03.2019

ZAZ: The Vision Becomes Reality – Celebratory Opening of Workshop for People with Disabilities in Juchowo Village

“It takes a village” is a saying that comes to mind when one reflects on the development of curative therapy in Juchowo Village, which has now found its high point in the celebratory opening of the “ZAZ” (an acronym for Zakład Aktywności Zawodowej).

A man and a young child looking at a storybook, but you can only see the book and their hands
12.02.2019

Help in a Difficult Time: Children’s Hospice in South Hessen

When someone approaches the end of life, it can be an extremely difficult time for affected family and friends. This is especially true in the case of a terminally ill child. The ambulant children’s hospice and family support service in South Hessen cares for families in this very difficult situation and also offers assistance for daily life with a critically ill or terminally ill child.

Workspace where adults and pupils are repairing things
28.01.2019

A New Handbook for Repair Workshops in Schools

Repairing instead of throwing away: students at the Rudolf Steiner School in Munich-Schwabing are learning to do just that in the school’s repair workshop. The organizers’ experiences with the project are collected in a newly-released book, Reparieren macht Schule.