SUSTAINABILITY

At our IT training centre, we regularly offer training and further education opportunities for employees. Together with the Bremen Employment Office, we run retraining programmes to train future computer scientists. New employees go through a special training lab that prepares them for the world of work and enables them to develop and improve their skills.
In addition to our training programmes, we have created exchange platforms that promote knowledge sharing within the company and support the personal and professional development of our employees.

We support various programmes for children, such as Tandem Power, Code Week, Future Day and school internships. We supervise bachelor's theses, are involved with Avanja, give lectures on specialist topics, take on teaching assignments and participate in panel discussions.

Getting children and young people excited about IT – that's what Code Week, which takes place every year during the autumn holidays, is all about. We organise Code Week together with the Körber Foundation and other companies in Bremen. Our goal is to introduce boys and girls to the digital world in a playful way. To this end, we offer various workshops to get them interested in hacking and programming.

Women in IT! We are involved in Avanja, an initiative of the industry association bremen digitalmedia. The aim of the initiative is to get more women working in IT professions. Avanja shows companies how to address the shortage of skilled workers and specifically target women. We fully support this project because mixed teams are more successful and innovative. For example, we took part in the ‘Avanja Recruiting Challenge’ to optimise our recruiting processes and improve our approach to women and female graduates.

A new approach to career guidance: The Tandem Power project aims to motivate young people to pursue careers in IT and counteract the shortage of skilled workers. The idea is that up to 25 school pupils and representatives from a company spend two days getting to know each other. Workshops are held to give an insight into different careers. The project also aims to dispel typical IT clichés. We are part of the project to support the promotion of young talent and counteract the shortage of skilled workers.

We specifically use energy-efficient technologies in our data centres and offices to optimise our energy consumption and minimise the use of non-renewable energy sources.

In addition, we purchase green electricity from certified sources, thereby actively reducing our carbon footprint and supporting the use of clean energy.

Furthermore, we raise awareness among our employees about the conscious use of energy and promote energy-efficient behaviour within our company.

As a company, we have signed the Diversity Charter and embrace a corporate culture that respects and values diversity and offers equal opportunities to all employees, regardless of gender, origin or background.

To promote diversity, we implement various measures for inclusion and participation. These include our Diversity Day activities, such as the change of perspective. We also take part in the Diversity Challenge of the Diversity Charter and promote women in IT professions through our participation in the Avanja initiative in Bremen. We promote barrier-free workplaces and participation in the ‘Inklupreneur’ project. ‘Inklupreneur’ helps to reduce inequalities by supporting people from different backgrounds and with different abilities to find a successful place in the world of work.

We consistently separate waste, have switched from plastic bottles to reusable glass bottles, and aim to be a paperless office. By reducing paper consumption and using digital document management systems, we minimise our ecological footprint and contribute to the protection of forests and habitats.

We also reduce our electronic waste by extending the life cycle of our products and giving hardware a second life. By refurbishing and donating used equipment to social institutions or recycling it, we help to reduce waste and conserve resources.

We optimise heating control, implement energy-saving measures and reduce CO2 emissions in our business activities.