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.

04.07.2017

Ceremonial Foundation Stone Laid in the Juchowo Village Project: Workshop for Persons with Disabilities “Crowns our Previous Efforts”

Visitors who meet one of the individuals who have been working at Juchowo for some time immediately witness the wholesome effects of this environment. Take Szymon, for example, who works in the herb garden and buys juices and syrup from the farm as gifts for family and friends.

A farmer in rubber boots and with tangled arms on the back is walking over a field in the morning sun, surrounded by fog
03.07.2017

40 Years of Research and Plant Breeding: SAGST Congratulates Dottenfelderhof Farm on its Anniversary

On July 1, around 150 people, including guests from the Czech Republic and Switzerland, celebrated the 40th anniversary of the “FDZ” (research and plant breeding at Dottenfelderhof Farm) in Bad Vilbel. The Software AG Foundation congratulates Dr. Harmut Spieß and his colleagues on their success.

Group photo of the Diesterweg families
21.04.2017

Because Education relies on the Family: Second Round of the Diesterweg Scholarship Comes to a Successful Close

Increasing educational opportunities, helping children and parents, and supporting life and learning as a family: these are the goals of the Diesterweg Scholarship Darmstadt. The second round of the scholarship finishes on April 22 with a closing celebration in the Muckerhaus.

Four people sitting at a table with teaching material, talking to each other
22.03.2017

Peer-to-peer: Model Project Offers Counselling from and for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities

It's more than a law of physics that “like attracts like”: countless scientific studies have demonstrated that people are more likely to trust and cooperate with those who are most like them. This principle forms the basis of peer counselling.

Group photo in front of Alanus University at the farewell of Marcelo da Veiga
17.03.2017

More Time for Teaching and Research: Founding Chancellor of Alanus University Steps Down after 15 Successful Years

At the end of March, Marcelo da Veiga will voluntarily end his term as Chancellor of Alanus University in order to dedicate himself more fully to his academic work at the Institute for Philosophical and Aesthetic Education. As the founding Chancellor, da Veiga spent a successful 15-year term steering the future of the institition.