Sustainability

Through our collaboration with AfB, Europe’s largest non-profit IT company, our old and faulty laptops, smartphones and other devices are dismantled and recycled in accordance with the highest ecological and ethical standards. This creates new resources in Europe. The overhauled and reusable IT devices are sold by AfB with a warranty of up to three years. The refurbished IT hardware they offer in this way means access to laptops and mobile phones with all the benefits of a warranty, even for those who cannot afford to purchase new equipment. So disposing of our IT equipment in an environmentally friendly way has a positive impact more widely than just in ecological terms: It enables us to also make a contribution to society and at the same time secure jobs.

Péter Horváth founded a non-profit foundation in 2002 and transferred his shares in the Horváth Group thereto. The foundation engages in the fields of science, culture and understanding between nations.

In science, it predominantly supports projects and themes in the field of business economics. Two examples out of many are the annual awarding of the Green Controlling Prize as well as the Péter Horváth Dissertation Prize. The foundation runs the non-profit IPRI Research Institute together with the University of Ulm.

In culture, projects as well as the activities and training of creative individuals are supported, with a focus on young artists.
 
In the field of understanding between nations, ties with Hungary are of special concern to the foundation. The Center for Family Business was established by the foundation in collaboration with the Family Enterprise Foundation at Corvinus University, among other things.

The foundation makes its funding decisions according to its statutes, fully independently from the Horváth Group. Projects are primarily financed from the profit shares of the Horváth Group.
 

JOBLINGE

At JOBLINGE, the economy, the state and private individuals work together to support young, disadvantaged people, with the objective of helping them to access real job opportunities and achieve long-term integration into the labor market and society. By providing tailored qualification, voluntary mentoring, and support during training, the initiative achieves far above-average success, with over 70% of participating young people making the leap into professional life.

As part of our collaboration with Joblinge Stuttgart, one example of our work is collaborating on ways to improve performance management, engaging with questions such as: How can planning be even more efficient, how can the management of the organization be simplified for managers and the Supervisory Board, and how can processes be faster and automated? For this purpose, the job candidates and our interdisciplinary project teams have spent several months developing solutions in various workshops, and have tried them out and implemented them directly in practice at the sites.

TAFEL

Saving food and helping people. Our employees regularly support the Tafel at our office locations. We provide support from setting up, unloading and sorting the food to distributing it and the final dismantling of the space.

The great demand for helpers shows us how important this commitment is and how many people depend on the help. In addition to financial donations, the time and active commitment is an indispensable component.

For many years we have been working closely with the organization Friends of Uthingo e.V., which was founded by our former colleague Axel Goedecke.

Friends of Uthingo e.V. takes care of abused children in the townships of South Africa. Every day, children who have been victims of sexual or physical violence seek refuge in the safe house run by the Uthingo organization near Durban. They receive medical and psychological care there – and, crucially, find a place where they can feel safe and secure.

However, not all children can be reintegrated into their families, and this South-Africa-based organization does not have the legal or financial means to take care of these children in the long term. This means they face the threat of living on the street – without shelter, education or prospects for their future. Four child safety officers from Operation Uthingo accommodate children in their own name. They currently house around 70 children in their small houses. Friends of Uthingo helps these children by meeting their basic needs, improving their housing situation, and enabling them to attend school and receive education. Horváth has also been able to play a part, for instance by making urgently needed repairs to the houses, financing an industrial oven for the largest house, which accommodates around 30 children, and culinary and housekeeping courses, after-school classes and school uniforms.

Thanks to one of our colleagues from Vienna, we have come into contact with Rosemarie Wagner from "Light of Love", a non-profit association that finances educational projects in northern India. Together with Rosi, we decided to support Premjyoti, a private school for disabled children in Varanasi, northern India. Set up by an Indian couple in 1998, Premjyoti was founded with the intention of facilitating the education of disabled children.

These children are very often rejected by their parents due to their disability, and do not have access to a normal education. The school currently has around 450 students, of whom around 1/4 have a significant disability. Together with Light of Love we have supported the school in various projects such as funding teacher salaries, school and winter clothing, the building of a ramp for disabled students, and drilling to support the school’s water supply, as well as enabling the supply of classroom disinfectants and masks during the coronavirus pandemic.