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.

Visitors while their visit at the workspace
16.01.2017

Donation Drive in South Hessen: Echo Helps to Strengthen Civil Engagement

With its project “Echo helps!” Echo Media has been supporting social projects in the area since 2005: every year it carries out an ambitious donation drive, which is followed up by extensive reporting. Reader donations and media coverage provide needed assistance for the beneficiary organizations - and not just financially.

View on the Luftikus Children's House terrace and the valley surrounding
21.12.2016

Luftikus Children's House – A Breath of Air for Artificially Respirated Children and their Families

Bare walls, grey linoleum floors, neon lighting – the intensive care station is not the kind of place where children and adolescents can develop in age-appropriate ways. Yet some children have to spend a majority of their lives in such an environment because they rely on constant mechanical respiration. The Luftikus organization was founded with this situation in mind – with the goal of creating a very special living arrangement for artificially-respirated children.

Teenager carrying parts of the wooden sculpture, woven in a basket like manner
20.12.2016

Encounters at Oberfeld Farm - Publications and Projects from Oberfeld

The Hofgut Oberfeld farm is enjoying a great deal of popularity. Whether for living and working, purchasing the farm's products, or relaxation: people from Darmstadt and the surrounding region are very fond of coming here. It's a lively place for an encounter - with agriculture as the common ground.

Yawning girl
29.11.2016

The Yawning Society: Lecture Series on the Causes and Consequences of Sleep Disorders

Restful sleep is important for mental and physical well-being. But for more and more people in Germany, this is only a dream.

Inga Güther, managing director Ökologische Tierzucht holding a white chicken on her arms
16.11.2016

Breeding the Future: Natural Food Retailers and Consumers for the “Eco Chicken of Tomorrow”

At the beginning of the year, Ökologische Tierzucht gGmbH (ÖTZ), a non-profit initiative for organic animal breeding, asked natural food retailers and consumers to support an initiative for more independent poultry breeding - with one cent for each organic egg.