DOW has established an Endowed Professorship for Sustainability and Global Ethics at HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The commitment of the company, which is one of the world’s leading chemical companies, is in line with the company’s principle to take its responsibility in the society and to strengthen the aspect of sustainability in Central Germany.

HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management is the oldest business school in Germany. HHL offers excellent study facilities for a general management training program of the highest academic standard with an exemplary focus on ethical aspects of management.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek, economist and economic ethicist, chairs since September 2004 the endowment Professorship for Sustainability and Global Ethics. He is also a Member of the Management Board of the Wittenberg- Center for Global Ethics.

This Endowed Professorship is also funded by DOW Chemical.

At the moment this position is vacant because of the former holder, Prof. Doris Fuchs, Ph.D.,  accepted a call from Stuttgart University. A call for the position will soon be published.

Vattenfall Europe AG, in collaboration with the Stifterverband and the Wittenberg Center, established a Chair for Energy Management and Sustainability at the University of Leipzig. This marks an important innovative contribution of the company to East Germany in the scientific processing of the basic resource, energy. The Chair would consider economical, ecological, social aspects as well as the moral dimension of sustainability.

The Chair shall be embedded in the building and broadening of a competence centre for Sustainability in Central Germany. It should serve an important purpose in study disciplines, universities and cross state boarder cooperation on issues of sustainability.

Application process for this endowment chair is presently under way.

The Dieter-Schwarz-Foundation, following an initiative of the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics and through the Stifterverband (founder association for German science), established this Chair at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. This professorship was instituted at the 500 anniversary of the University.

The Chair is occupied by economic ethician Prof. Dr. Ingo Pies. He is member of the Wittenberg Center and was between 2003 to 2005 Board Member and Academic Director of the Center.