Simple because it matters.
Together for a sustainable future
Engagement
As a company acutely aware of its social responsibility, we want to make tangible contributions to resolving problems in society. We do this by helping people in a number of countries, working with a wide range of issues.
Our special focus: We aim to manage the challenges of climate change that already has a tangible impact on our business. Together with our parent company Munich Re, we support selected projects protecting the climate and achieving lasting effects across borders. With others projects, too, we work towards improving people’s situation in a sustainable way and support them in taking over responsibility for themselves and their environment.
Whether ERGO companies or their staff lobby for the integration of disabled persons, support human beings in acute emergencies or organise access to health care – we aim to achieve lasting effects. This also applies to the ERGO Foundation “Youth & Future” whose staff help disadvantaged young people with their career start. This focus on sustainability corresponds with our long-term business model and its promises for the future.
Doing good together
Commitment of our employees
The non-profit association "ergo: we help" of employees and agents in Germany supports national and international projects to help people in need.
- "ergo: wir helfen"
- Corporate Volunteering Programme
- "ergo: wir helfen"
- Corporate Volunteering Programme
Help where help is needed: ”ergo: wir helfen e. V.”
The independent charitable association "ergo: wir helfen" (ergo:we help) came into being on our employees' initiative. Around 3,500 ERGO employees, retired members of our workforce and sales partners are members of the association, which bases its work on the principle that if a lot of people put a little in, a lot of others can get something out. As in all our social and community involvement, the association puts children at the centre of its activities, focusing on youngsters in need of support and care.
A boost from the job engine
Opening up new perspectives: ERGO Foundation
The Hamburg-based foundation focuses on preparing disadvantaged young people for working life. With low threshold counseling, they receive support in discovering their potential and developing professional perspectives, in order to successfully start their professional career.
Vocational counseling
Together, the foundation employees and the young adults explore individual strengths, interests and abilities, and discuss possible occupational fields. The employees help find vocational training positions, advanced courses or job opportunities. The young people can also rely on their support in drafting application documents and preparing for job interviews or recruitment tests.
The foundation offers its vocational counseling in cooperation with several youth centres at their respective locations. Open consultation hours ensure easy access; in addition, the youths can arrange individual appointments outside these hours. The consultation process is backed up by a specifically designed online platform. Here, the young people can manage their application documents on their own and contact the foundation staff.
The counseling is voluntary, free of charge and without time restriction.
Additional offers
Multi-day workshops addressing students of 9th or 10th grade support them in their vocational orientation and in reflecting their personal ideas of future jobs. Company visits and the event series “Job of the month” introducing job profiles provide them with vivid and realistic insights in the working world.
Insights into our work
Contact
ERGO Stiftung „Jugend & Zukunft“
Überseering 45
22297 Hamburg
Germany
Tel +49 40 6376-4703
stiftung@ergo.de
