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Our responsibility as a good corporate citizen
In 2006, we underscored our role as a responsible and socially committed company with a number of activities in the fields of education and research, environment and nature, health care and social needs, and sports and culture. In keeping with our goal of being a good corporate citizen, we further developed the contents of some of our main projects while expanding others to additional countries and also launching new initiatives. In this context, we pay heed to the balanced use of funding both in a thematic and a regional respect.
Health projects: New focus on family planning
The promotion at Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany, of family planning programs in developing countries is a new focus of our social activities. Bayer is thus continuing a 45-year-old tradition at Schering with programs in more than 125 countries. By supplying hormonal contraceptive systems at cost price, we offered family planning options and a choice of contraceptive methods to many needy people in developing countries again in 2006. In cooperation with multilateral, state and private organizations worldwide, we provided about 60 million cycles of oral contraceptives and roughly ten million units of one- and three-month injectable contraceptives and organized accompanying information campaigns.
Foundations: Promoting science and social well-being
Carl Duisberg established the first Bayer foundation for medical students in 1923. In the decades that followed, a broadly based foundation culture developed under the Bayer name that concentrated on supporting education and science on the one hand and disabled athletes on the other. Bayer has now pooled and expanded its traditional foundation activities with the establishment of two new organizations, the Bayer Science & Education Foundation and the Bayer Cares Foundation.
Both foundations orient their philanthropic activities around the Bayer Mission Statement “Bayer: Science For A Better Life” and underscore Bayer’s self-image as a good corporate citizen. The Bayer Science & Education Foundation mainly aims to support talented schoolchildren, ambitious students and outstanding scientists. Personal commitment and specialist excellence are regarded as central criteria for selection. Activities that qualify for support could include such endeavors as school programs at our production sites, innovative projects initiated by students and scientific symposia. Bayer makes available an additional foundation budget of €10 million for school projects. The Otto Bayer Prize and the Hansen Family Award continue to be presented in recognition of outstanding research achievements in the fields of science and medicine. The Hermann Strenger Foundation sponsors foreign assignments by trainees.
The Bayer Cares Foundation aims to help improve living conditions at our sites and solve central social problems. A key role here is played by the sponsoring of voluntary commitment in the local communities surrounding our sites. Our newly established Corporate Volunteering Program provides funding and advice to employees looking to become involved in local charitable projects. A special area of focus involves support for retired Bayer employees who would like to contribute their expertise to international development efforts or to the provision of science education at institutes of learning. The Bayer Cares Foundation also provides donations to quickly help those placed in a position of need following natural disasters, for example. Bayer’s traditional support for disabled sports will continue to be maintained in the future by the Herbert Grünewald Foundation. Bayer has recently consolidated its commitment to amateur and youth sports. In 2006, some 50,000 people were members of 27 company societies and 50 sports clubs. These receive funding of €14 million every year.
Both foundations orient their philanthropic activities around the Bayer Mission Statement “Bayer: Science For A Better Life” and underscore Bayer’s self-image as a good corporate citizen. The Bayer Science & Education Foundation mainly aims to support talented schoolchildren, ambitious students and outstanding scientists. Personal commitment and specialist excellence are regarded as central criteria for selection. Activities that qualify for support could include such endeavors as school programs at our production sites, innovative projects initiated by students and scientific symposia. Bayer makes available an additional foundation budget of €10 million for school projects. The Otto Bayer Prize and the Hansen Family Award continue to be presented in recognition of outstanding research achievements in the fields of science and medicine. The Hermann Strenger Foundation sponsors foreign assignments by trainees.
The Bayer Cares Foundation aims to help improve living conditions at our sites and solve central social problems. A key role here is played by the sponsoring of voluntary commitment in the local communities surrounding our sites. Our newly established Corporate Volunteering Program provides funding and advice to employees looking to become involved in local charitable projects. A special area of focus involves support for retired Bayer employees who would like to contribute their expertise to international development efforts or to the provision of science education at institutes of learning. The Bayer Cares Foundation also provides donations to quickly help those placed in a position of need following natural disasters, for example. Bayer’s traditional support for disabled sports will continue to be maintained in the future by the Herbert Grünewald Foundation. Bayer has recently consolidated its commitment to amateur and youth sports. In 2006, some 50,000 people were members of 27 company societies and 50 sports clubs. These receive funding of €14 million every year.
Education projects: Worldwide network set up
Our Making Science Make Sense program (MSMS) was initiated more than ten years ago to encourage interest in the natural sciences among U.S. school students. More than 1,200 Bayer employees now support scientific education in these countries by regularly volunteering their time to help teach at elementary schools. In 2006, Bayer was awarded the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership by the U.S. President for this initiative, the first non-U.S. company to receive this prize. In the meantime, this educational initiative has been extended to Bayer sites in France, Ireland, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Bayer signed an agreement in 2006 with Tongji University in Shanghai, China, to fund a Chair for Sustainable Development. Bayer will support this initiative with material and financial funding totaling US$ 1 million for an initial period of five years.
As partner to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Bayer supported the organization of a global youth environmental conference in August 2006 in Malaysia, providing personnel, material and financial resources. Furthermore, the company provided funding to help develop the structures for the United Nations’ global youth environmental activities through the establishment of additional regional networks for young environmentalists in Asia and the organization of the first ever youth environmental conferences in Latin America and Africa. The Young Environmental Envoy Program, which in 2006 saw Bayer again invite about 50 young people from Asia, Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe to attend a week-long study trip to Germany, was expanded to include Malaysia, Vietnam and Turkey – increasing to 17 the number of participating countries. The company spent a total of €1 million last year on activities organized in the context of its successful partnership with UNEP.
Together with National Geographic, the world’s biggest charitable scientific organization, we last year supported nine research projects aimed at drinking water conservation from the jointly funded €250,000 Global Exploration Fund. This scientific collaboration is unique, as Bayer is the first private-sector partner with which National Geographic has entered into a theme-related partnership outside of its home country, the United States.
Bayer signed an agreement in 2006 with Tongji University in Shanghai, China, to fund a Chair for Sustainable Development. Bayer will support this initiative with material and financial funding totaling US$ 1 million for an initial period of five years.
As partner to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Bayer supported the organization of a global youth environmental conference in August 2006 in Malaysia, providing personnel, material and financial resources. Furthermore, the company provided funding to help develop the structures for the United Nations’ global youth environmental activities through the establishment of additional regional networks for young environmentalists in Asia and the organization of the first ever youth environmental conferences in Latin America and Africa. The Young Environmental Envoy Program, which in 2006 saw Bayer again invite about 50 young people from Asia, Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe to attend a week-long study trip to Germany, was expanded to include Malaysia, Vietnam and Turkey – increasing to 17 the number of participating countries. The company spent a total of €1 million last year on activities organized in the context of its successful partnership with UNEP.
Together with National Geographic, the world’s biggest charitable scientific organization, we last year supported nine research projects aimed at drinking water conservation from the jointly funded €250,000 Global Exploration Fund. This scientific collaboration is unique, as Bayer is the first private-sector partner with which National Geographic has entered into a theme-related partnership outside of its home country, the United States.
Realignment of foundation management
| The new Bayer Foundations | |
| Bayer Science & Education Foundation | Bayer Cares Foundation |
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| Awarding of scholarships | Disaster aid |
| Scientific awards | Voluntary citizen involvement |
| School programs | Corporate volunteering |
| University chairs | CSR projects |
| Scientific symposia | |
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