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Group Management Report Corporate Governance Environment, Safety, and Corporate Social Responsibility Consolidated Financial Statements 73 Corporate Social Responsibility We assume corporate social responsibility in various ways. At the center of our involvement is the promotion of educational and science projects near our sites. With these mea- sures, we intend to arouse the enthusiasm of children and youth, in particular, for natural sciences, mathematics, and computer science. The continuity of our commitment is important to us. Therefore, we promote many projects over a longer period of time. This applies especially to the “House of Junior Researchers” in Wesel. With this project, we enable pre- and ele- mentary-school children to acquire their first scientific know- ledge. In 2015, we also continued the so-called educational coaching in Wesel, which serves to individually promote children with a migration background or children who are socially disadvantaged. Continuity also applies to the scholarships we offered to students in Germany and abroad once again in 2015. In addition, we sponsor the Germany-wide youth startups online competition “Jugend gründet,” awarding a special prize in the field of chemistry. In 2015, it went to a team of students from Baden-Württemberg. The prize consisted of a several-day trip to BYK USA in Wallingford, where the prizewinners visited one of our largest additives research and production sites. In 2015, ALTANA sent an employee from China and a high-school teacher from Wesel on an Antarctic expedition organized by the British polar researcher Robert Swan and his initiative “2041.” They returned as sustainability ambassa- dors who promote improved climate protection and sustain- able action at ALTANA, in schools and beyond. In light of current events, we made donations for human- itarian aid in 2015. First, we asked our employees to do- nate money following the earthquake in Nepal in April, in cooperation with the “Aktion Deutschland Hilft” coalition, and we doubled the sum collected to € 50,250. The money was used to implement various aid measures in schools and education in the Himalayan community of Ghangphedi. In addition, we allocated € 250,000 for special German courses for refugees offered by the Malteser Hilfsdienst across Germany.


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