Promoting science, technology, and environmental protection

Those who advocate sustainable development are obliged to invest in the human capacity for innovation. Accordingly, we support universities and research institutes all over the world.

The Daimler and Benz Foundation — for people and the environment. In order to address important research issues concerning the interrelationships between human beings, the environment, and technology, the Daimler and Benz Foundation supports interdisciplinary scientific projects in this area. To mark the 125th anniversary of the automobile, Daimler increased the foundation’s endowment by €88 million to €125 million.
www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de

Stifterverband: Daimler is one of the founding members of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany). This is the largest private foundation of its kind in Germany. The association provides over €120 million in sponsorship funding each year.
www.stifterverband.org

Daimler Foundation strengthens Germany as a center of scientific research. Back in 1975 we transferred a working-capital fund to the Stifterverband in order to establish the Daimler Foundation. Since that time, the earnings from this fund have been used to promote science and technology and support up-and-coming young scientists.

Supporting the environment worldwide. We believe it is our responsibility to preserve the diversity of habitats, species, and genes for future generations. Since 1998 Daimler has therefore been supporting the Global Nature Fund (GNF), whose worldwide Living Lakes project pursues the goal of protecting and renaturing lakes, wetlands, and other bodies of water. In this connection we joined the GNF in the summer of 2011 to organize a nature-oriented family camp on Lake Constance for the first time ever.
www.globalnature.org

Environmental education for children. On the occasion of World Environment Day in June 2011, Mercedes-Benz do Brasil made a targeted appeal to the upcoming generation. At performances of the play “Planeta Mercedes-Benz — Our Sustainable World” at one of the company’s truck production plants in Brazil, approximately 7,000 children were reminded of how important it is to deal respectfully with nature.