• Maintaining nature long-term
    as the livelihood
    of future generations.

  • Education is unimaginable
    without interpersonal encounter.

  • Strengthening children and youth
    in their individuality
    and development potential.

  • Putting personal encounters
    front and center.

  • Valuing human beings
    in all their dimensions.

  • Maintaining nature long-term
    as the livelihood
    of future generations.

  • Education is unimaginable
    without interpersonal encounter.

  • Strengthening children and youth
    in their individuality
    and development potential.

  • Putting personal encounters
    front and center.

  • Valuing human beings
    in all their dimensions.

THE SOFTWARE AG FOUNDATION

The Software AG Foundation (SAGST) is an independent charitable foundation under German civil law with headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. We are not a corporate foundation; rather, the foundation is the principal shareholder in the Software AG company, also located in the research town of Darmstadt. The founder of both, the company and the foundation, is Dr. h. c. Peter Schnell, who in the 1990s transferred all company shares to the foundation.

Since its founding, SAGST has been using the profits on around 1.4 billion euros in foundation assets to support projects organized by independent charitable organizations that directly and exclusively serve the common good. SAGST supports initiatives not only in the areas of Education, Children and Youth, Assistance for the Elderly and Individuals with Disabilitiese but also in Anthroposophical Medicine as well as scientific and practically-oriented projects in Nature and Agriculture. Our funding focuses on Germany and Europe. Together with the MAHLE FOUNDATION we are also involved in Brazil.

In total, we co-enable an average of about 250 projects per year that create healing social impulses for the (further) development of people and society. SAGST ranks among the largest foundations in Germany, measured both in terms of assets and total grant making to further its goals. 

SHOWCASE

Mugs with inscription from Café L'ink
29.05.2023

New Café L’ink brings Inclusion to Großsachsenheim

 

With its inclusive cafés, the Ludwigsburg-based association Tragwerk creates meeting places for young people with and without assistance needs, as well as important fields of practice as they transition from school to the working world. The new location in Großsachsenheim extends this offer to the district of Ludwigsburg.

 

PROJECT GALLERY

  • Mugs with inscription from Café L'ink
    29.05.2023

    New Café L’ink brings Inclusion to Großsachsenheim

    With its inclusive cafés, the Ludwigsburg-based association Tragwerk creates meeting places for young people with and without assistance needs, as well as important fields of practice as they transition from school to the working world. The new location in Großsachsenheim extends this offer to the district of Ludwigsburg.

  • MitgestalterInnen auf der Anthropoi Jahrestagung 2022
    22.05.2023

    Better together: Shaping Inclusion

    For many decades anthroposophic institutions have been places where people with and without assistance needs live, learn and work together. The broad-based project “in guter Gesellschaft – Inklusion leben” (in good company – living inclusion) of the German association of anthroposophic social service providers – Anthropoi Bundesverband – aims to further develop this inclusive approach and open it up even more to the surrounding community.

  • Fertile ground
    11.04.2023

    Lobby for healthy Soil

    Not only is fertile soil the basis for healthy nutrition, but it is also an important factor in counteracting global warming. Projects such as Bodenfruchtbarkeitsfonds (Soil Fertility Fund) or the “Soil Ambassadors” allow Bio-Stiftung Schweiz (Swiss Organic Foundation) to provide farmers with support to improve the quality of their farmland.

  • Close relationship between two trainees and a young man in need of assistance
    27.03.2023

    Practical and realistic: Curative Education Proseminar at Münzinghof

    The Münzinghof anthroposophic community near Nuremberg has been offering practice-oriented specialist training for future curative education nurses for more than ten years. The proseminar established within this framework will now be opened up to participants from other institutions.

  • Phillipp Gelitz at his desk
    20.03.2023

    Building academic Bridges

    Plenty of time for free play as well as experiential spaces for body, soul and spirit: Early childhood Waldorf education aims to accompany young children gently and promote their development holistically. How do professionals and parents characterise this unique educational approach? Philipp Gelitz pursued this question as part of his doctorate, which he recently completed as the fourth scholarship recipient of the Waldorf Education Graduate Programme at Alanus University.

  • Brown rooster and light hens
    23.01.2023

    A Future for Hens and Roosters

    22 January 2023 was the second-ever “Day of the Dual-Use Chicken” and a great opportunity for SAGST to draw attention to the pioneering work of one of its funding recipients: Ökologische Tierzucht gGmbH (ÖTZ) has been committed to chicken breeds where hens and roosters are once again of equal value since it was founded in 2015.