420,700 Euro to UNICEF

Commitment

Würth takes social responsibility

PROPERTY ENTAILS OBLIGATIONS.

This extremely short sentence taken from the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany acts as a tremendous driving force within the Würth Group. Because Article 14 (2) continues:

ITS USE SHALL ALSO SERVE THE PUBLIC GOOD.

As a family business, Würth takes social responsibility based on this deep-rooted conviction. Würth is committed to a vibrant cultural landscape at the regional, national, and international level, rises to social challenges, facilitates education designed to meet the needs of the future, and recognizes individuals who improve how we all live together.

Arts & culture

Society

Education

are taught at the Freie Schule Anne-Sophie schools

— also learning how to use digital media.

Würth Foundation

are taught at the Freie Schule Anne-Sophie schools — also learning how to use digital media. Würth Foundation

1,000

students

Rethinking education and teaching

Education to meet the needs of the future is not only crucial for each and every one of us. Education forms the basis for a fair society, for the future prosperity of every country, and for our democracies.
This is why the Würth Group is committed to forward-looking school practices that are effective, offer equal opportunities, and focus on the well-being of children and young people. Würth also helps to prepare young people for an active life, and one that they choose for themselves, by promoting university teaching and research into early childhood development.

Künzelsau & Berlin

Freie Schule Anne-Sophie schools | Stiftung Würth

Freie Schule Anne-Sophie schools Künzelsau & Berlin

Bettina Würth founded the independent school Freie Schule Anne-Sophie in Künzelsau in 2006. Its sister school opened in Berlin in 2011. Both schools are state-accredited and offer education from primary school (grade one) to high school graduation for more than 1,000 students. The Würth Foundation is the supporting organization behind the schools. The focus in Berlin is on bilingual education in German and English. Freie Schule Anne-Sophie in Künzelsau has been a “Global Ethics School” since 2018.

Besides the concept of target- and performance-based learning in an actively shaped learning environment, the main focus lies on acquiring independent learning skills and developing social skills. Appreciation, mindfulness, willingness to learn, and confidence are the four basic attitudes of Freie Schule Anne-Sophie.

„Every child should leave the school as a winner. “

This is how Bettina Würth explained her motivation for setting up the school.

Collaborative and digital learning: For students at the Freie Schule Anne-Sophie schools, this is a matter of course from the very first day of school.

Stuttgart

Würth Foundation

"Scora" school project to combat racism and anti-semitism - Yes, we care!

From 2022 to 2025, the Würth Foundation will be supporting the SCORA international school project to combat racism and anti-Semitism (Schools Opposing Racism and Anti-Semitism). SCORA was launched in the Stuttgart administrative district and has since been expanded to cover all of Baden-Württemberg. It aims to bring together students from Baden-Württemberg and Israel. The patron is the president of the federal state parliament, Muhterem Aras.

Künzelsau

Würth Foundation

Promoting research and teaching

The Würth Foundation is the supporting organization for the Foundation for the Promotion of Reinhold-Würth-Hochschule of Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences in Künzelsau. The Künzelsau campus is home to the Faculty of Engineering and Business at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences with around 1,500 students. It offers ten hands-on bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.

10

years have already been spent by Professor Renée Lampe, who holds the Markus Würth Endowed Professorship at the Technical University of Munich, developing new findings on early childhood brain damage.

Bremervörde

Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG

"Mach was!" (Do something!) Trades competition

The Findorff-Realschule school from Bremervörde won the “MACH WAS!” trades competition with an illuminated bench seat covered by a photovoltaic system that can also be used to charge smartphones. The first Carmen Würth Prize sponsored by the Würth Foundation was awarded to the Helen-Keller-Schule school in Wiehl, a special school for intellectual development. The Innovation Prize was won by the Gesamtschule Duisburg-Mitte school.

The “MACH WAS!” competition is an initiative by Würth under the patronage of the Aktion Modernes Handwerk e. V. trades association and aims to get young people interested in the trades. Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG spends more than EUR 500,000 a year on the competition.

At the awards ceremony, Jasmin Sackmann, head of the initiative (left), and Norbert Heckmann, Chairman of the Management of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG (right), celebrated with the young people.

Künzelsau

Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG

Würth Bike Park is opened

Clear the way! On 11 November 2022, the Würth Bike Park was opened in Künzelsau, a circuit featuring waves, steep curves, and jumps for bikes, scooters, and skates. Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG was the main source of support behind the park’s completion.

Through the steep curve and over the hill Professionals, but also recreational athletes, children, and young people, now train their motor skills on the track.

920

square meters of asphalt to let off steam on wheels can be found at the new pump track.

Baden-Württemberg

Würth Foundation

Competence Center for Economic Education

Established on the initiative of Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth under the umbrella of the Würth Foundation, the Baden-Württemberg Competence Center for Economic Education has been promoting entrepreneurial thinking and action among school students since 2005. The Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Youth, and Sports of Baden-Württemberg is a partner of the initiative. The activities of the Competence Center include the Würth Education Prize, the federal state prize for graduates of secondary technical schools, the management symposium, and the company placement program for teaching staff, as well as the “HANDWERKSTATT” (TRADES WORKSHOP).

What effect does having economics as a separate subject actually have? In 2022, a long-term study conducted by the University of Koblenz-Landau involving 10,727 students—the most comprehensive survey on economic education performed in Germany to date, supported by the Competence Center—proved that the subject of economics in vocational training and higher education, introduced in Baden-Württemberg in 2016, plays a key role in boosting economic literacy among young people in the federal state.

Presentation of the study “Economics as a separate school subject”
From left to right: Stefanie Hagenmüller, Helmut M. Jahn, Johannes Schmalzl, Maria Würth, and Harald Unkelbach from the Würth Foundation, Dr. Luis Oberrauch, Junior Professor Dr. Tim Kaiser, and Mira Eberle from the University of Koblenz-Landau, as well as Volker Schebesta, member of the federal state parliament and State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports for Baden-Württemberg

Künzelsau

Würth Foundation

Back in 1987, Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold and Carmen Würth established the Würth Foundation

As a civil law foundation based in Künzelsau, Germany, it promotes charitable and benevolent purposes.

The Würth Foundation promotes a wide range of projects in the fields of art and culture, education and training, research and science, and integration and inclusion. Its activities focus on the Heilbronn-Franconia region.

Johannes Schmalzl, former managing director of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) for the Stuttgart Region and, prior to that, long-standing district president, took over as Chairman of the Board of the Würth Foundation on 1 November 2022. He took over the reins from Harald Unkelbach, who had been a member of the Board of the Würth Foundation since 2010 and stepped down at his own request.