Social Responsibility

The Haniel Foundation is engaged in numerous ways at the University St.Gallen in order to support HSG students with a diverse and practice-orientated education.

Engagement of the Haniel Foundation at the University of St.Gallen
Since 2003, the Haniel Foundation has continued to support the University of St.Gallen through the Haniel Seminars: an annual series of courses within the contextual studies program. Students get the chance to work together with renowned specialists on subject matter specific to the yearly topic - issues such as Aesthetics and Entrepreneurship, New Movements of Entrepreneurship or Affects and Emotions constitute some of the Haniel Seminar topics. In 2010 the Haniel Foundation began cooperation with the Coaching Program at the HSG in order to give students the possibility to constructively reflect upon their life and career while studying at the Assessment and Bachelor level. Furthermore, the Haniel Foundation is engaged in a cooperative program with the Wittenberg-Centre for global ethics and the University of St.Gallen called "Sustainability and Entrepreneurship", within which research, teaching and innovation are given support.

Founding
The Haniel Foundation was established in 1988 by Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH in Duisburg-Ruhrort. The founding company has been the property of the Haniel family for more than 250 years, Haniel being one of the major founding entrepreneurial families in the Ruhr area. In accordance with the founding company’s self-image, the Haniel Foundation pursues the aim of promoting achievement and the courage to make entrepreneurial decisions in a socially responsible manner. Thus it lives up to the social engagement of the company founders and to the guidelines of the "respectable salesman". The Haniel Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Duisburg. Its capital has risen to around 45 million euros.

Goals
The Haniel Foundation supports people who have the courage and vision to want to find a new way of working and to shape the future on a sustainable basis. In concrete terms this means:

• strengthening entrepreneurs' commitment to public welfare,
• positively shaping the entrepreneurial image in society,
• supporting the training and further education of young leaders on a national and international scale.

The following guidelines are the basis of the foundations work :

- Inspiring innovation
- Communicating global vision
- Creating networks
- Offering inspiration