Sponsorship projects

ALTANA wants to create enthusiasm for natural science and technology in young people. This prompted us to sponsor the ”House of Little Researchers” foundation, which targets children aged three to six with its projects all over Germany. We also cooperate with schools to strengthen the teaching of MINT subjects.

To give an example of successful cooperation, we have been supporting the booster club of the Böhlstrasse Lutheran Primary School since 2007 to help with the purchase of teaching materials for science classes and to build a new science classroom, where children can experiment with water, explore insects and plants, and learn about the planet system.

ALTANA also is a member of the booster club for the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences.  ALTANA CEO Dr. Matthias L. Wolfgruber has taken over the chairmanship of this group and supports the expansion of the international competitiveness of the institution as an economic and scientific location.

We also support ten university students who are pursuing degrees in chemistry at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld for two semesters with a stipend of € 150 per month through the NRW scholarship program.

Cultural sponsorships

To make further contributions to the quality of life at our site in the Lower Rhine region, we have been supporting the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra for many years and officially joined their support organization, Friends of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, in 2009. In addition to a fixed annual contribution of € 20,000, we also support special artistic projects or concert series. Examples include the violin concert series “Great Female Violin Performers,” which we were proud to support with an additional € 15,000 in the 2009 / 2010 concert season as well as the production of “The Carnival of the Animals” in 2010, which we sponsored with a donation of € 10,000. BYK also supports the Prussia Museum in Wesel with an annual donation of € 20,000.

Check-up for charity

In August 2009, our Wesel site hosted a bicycle project offered by the Psychiatric Initiative Xanten (Spix). For two days, the organization offered low-cost bicycle checkups and repair services to our employees.

Employees showing worldwide commitment

ALTANA employees keep showing their compassion when it comes to helping victims of natural disasters or people in need. Many of our employees made donations to benefit the victims of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. ALTANA ended up matching the donations and we were proud to send € 70,000 to a combined German assistance network of charitable organizations.

The employees of BYK also dedicated time to the “Interna¬tional Peace Village” in Oberhausen in 2010 by working to set up a garden with plants and garden tools donated by ALTANA. This commit¬ment will be continued in 2011. The Peace Village is a private initiative that provides therapy for injured and traumatized children from war zones in Afghanistan, Angola, or Sri Lanka.

Social commitment is part of the daily agenda at our sites in other countries as well. The employees of ELANTAS PDG in St. Louis provided impressive evidence of this commit¬ment with their participation in numerous social projects over the past two years, including a blood drive for the Red Cross. They also donated clothing and food to a local soup kitchen, gave financial and material support to the St. Louis North Business Association, and collected donations for the U.S. animal protection group Humane Society.