This is our corporate mission statement. To live up to our motto and promote team building across all company locations, we have introduced two new CSR projects to the VIVAVIS community in 2022.
But what does CSR actually mean? CSR, or “Corporate Social Responsibility”, refers to a company’s responsibility for its social environment and to the voluntary contribution a company makes to a sustainable development. This includes social, ecological and economic aspects. Our two CSR projects are intended to fulfill our social responsibility in an ecological and sustainable manner, and to promote common interests and team spirit within our company.
VIVAVIS bee smart
Bees pollinate ca. 80% of all cultivated and wild plants; therefore they are indispensable for our ecosystems and must need our protection. With our VIVAVIS bee smart project, our aim is not only to nurture and protect bees, but also to establish a joint project to promote cooperation and communication across all company departments and locations. With this purpose in mind, we have set up beehives at our Ettlingen headquarters and have made them “smart” with the help of VIVAVIS technology. Our goal is to use the smart technologies from VIVAVIS AG not only in our different fields of business but also to ensure the well-being of our bees. By working together in this project, colleagues get to know each other better and create something new together. In fact, there is a link between the bees’ and the human socio-economic system. Or – as Aristotle aptly put it – : “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”.
Project insight VIVAVIS bee smart
We are currently in the implementation phase of VIVAVIS bee smart at our Ettlingen site. In summer 2022, three bee colonies found a new, species-appropriate home on our roof terrace in Ettlingen. Our various project teams regularly look after the well-being of the bees and are currently in the planning phase of how we can integrate smart technologies into our beehives in a meaningful way. Next year, we are particularly looking forward to harvesting our own honey for the first time.
VIVAVIS Garden
The VIVAVIS Garden Project is intended to complement the VIVAVIS bee smart project. The object of this project is working together to create a greener working environment, to put our generous green spaces at our sites to good use, and to create a place for our employees to relax and enhance productivity and well-being. The project offers ideal space for horticultural creativity – from flowering meadows to herb beds and a kitchen garden. Like our bee project, the VIVAVIS Garden Project is the basis for the utilisation of VIVAVIS products in a creative new context. This includes, for instance, analyses of weather and environmental conditions (precipitation, hours of sunshine, temperature and nitrate content in the soil), control of an irrigation system, or plant cultivation in the shape of a digital hydroculture – there are no limits to our creativity.
Project insight VIVAVIS Garden
We actively started the implementation in spring 2022 on the VIVAVIS company premises in Ettlingen. After careful planning, some things have already been implemented, such as the planting of various types of flowers and trees and the purchase of several thousand-flower trees. These will be cultivated over the next few years to provide the VIVAVIS bees with a source of food in the future. In this respect, the two projects VIVAVIS bee smart and VIVAVIS garden “fertilize” each other. For 2023, the planting of columnar fruit and the planting of diverse herb varieties as well as the technical implementation of hydroponics are currently on the agenda.
