Alongside top-class consultancy services, dialog with and commitment to society, sport and science is important to us. Learning to recognize and understand the problems of people with a disability, Nepalese children, or drug addicts means dealing with completely new situations and developing greater sensitivity towards others. This is exciting as well as enriching – for both sides.
ESPRiT Consulting: Initiative Day of Care The Day of Care is an initiative that was started up by ESPRiT Consulting in 2002. The Day of Care takes place every two years and involves the Management and IT Consulting Firm in taking on various challenging tasks in the local community. The desire to set up this initiative resulted from the Munich consulting firm’s strong commitment to work in the community. The aim is to promote community projects by offering not only financial support, but also support in the form of personal commitment and active participation by ESPRiT employees. The employees have chosen to participate in the projects instead of organizing a company outing.The 4th Day of Care was held under the motto of integration. On 5 July nearly 250 consultants played soccer in mixed teams together with young people of various national and cultural descents, cooked international dishes and arranged a job application training. The goal of this event was to overcome barriers on both sides and to diminish prejudices and fear of contact, as well as creating a common feeling of success and to experience mutual recognition – irrespective of the participants’ situation in life and their cultural background. With the application training consultants, supported by the ESPRiT HR Team gave the teenagers advice in terms of their CVs and simulated a job interview.In the long term ESPRiT is going to support the project of the internet editorial office of buntkicktgut where kids play “reporters” and thus learn how to work in the journalistic field. ESPRiT will be active in the sense that the company is going to offer workshops for professional writing. In addition PR representatives will be working as mentors for the kids in order to help them write their articles. The main purpose of this project is to strengthen the kids´ self-esteem and make them feel better about working for buntkicktgut. participants of Day of Care after the award ceremony press commentaries for download more impressions of the Day of Care On July 22, 2006, one of the hottest days of the summer, the sweat was pouring off the brows of all those involved in the renovation of the Gauting Girls’ Home. More than 50 ESPRiT employees tore down meters of wood paneling from the walls of this Caritas youth facility for therapeutic care. The corridors were completely redecorated, the garden was weeded and cleared of undergrowth, a new barbecue area was constructed, and a herb garden was planted with spices for the home’s kitchen. With the slogan “Measuring with a yardstick not calculating with a laptop”, the ESPRiT employees lived up to their reputation as representatives of a top-quality consulting team. In less than six hours, our team had completed all the tasks that had been left undone for years due to a lack of public funding. At lunchtime some doubts were still being expressed about the feasibility of getting all jobs done in one day. But in the end they got the job done. Thanks to the entire ESPRiT team, from interns to board members, the girls’ home looks as good as new. At the end, Caritas and ESPRiT employees celebrated their achievement with a barbecue and live music. ESPRiT has a green thumb – one team of the ESPRiT employees was taking care of planting the herbs for the kitchen of the girls´ asylum in Gauting. press commentaries for download The sun shone brightly for last Saturday’s Day of Care 2004. “Give it a go and be a winner!” was the rallying cry for this “It’s a Knockout” style event with competitors with disabilities playing alongside competitors without disabilities. The event was organized by the consulting firm ESPRiT Consulting in cooperation with Caritas Munich and took place at the Salesianum in the Munich district of Haidhausen. As well as the main event, which attracted 120 enthusiastic participants and around 200 spectators, there was an extensive program of sideshows to entertain the kids, including a bouncy castle, face painting, and a clown show. The proceeds of this charity event will go to help children and young people cared for by Caritas Munich. active integration - Frank Hartman, ESPRiT Consultant, while mastering the wheelchair course at the Day of Care 2004 press release Day of Care 2004 In August 2002 this led to an unusual works outing for the ESPRiT employees: Instead of going canoeing, rafting or trekking as normal, the consultants built a children’s playground at the Caritas Addiction Clinic Fasanenhof in Munich. ESPRiT partners Wolfram Finck und Stephan Marchner at the Day of Care 2002 press commentaries for download For more information please visit www.day-of-care.net
ESPRiT Consulting: Initiative Day of Care The Day of Care is an initiative that was started up by ESPRiT Consulting in 2002. The Day of Care takes place every two years and involves the Management and IT Consulting Firm in taking on various challenging tasks in the local community. The desire to set up this initiative resulted from the Munich consulting firm’s strong commitment to work in the community. The aim is to promote community projects by offering not only financial support, but also support in the form of personal commitment and active participation by ESPRiT employees. The employees have chosen to participate in the projects instead of organizing a company outing.The 4th Day of Care was held under the motto of integration. On 5 July nearly 250 consultants played soccer in mixed teams together with young people of various national and cultural descents, cooked international dishes and arranged a job application training. The goal of this event was to overcome barriers on both sides and to diminish prejudices and fear of contact, as well as creating a common feeling of success and to experience mutual recognition – irrespective of the participants’ situation in life and their cultural background. With the application training consultants, supported by the ESPRiT HR Team gave the teenagers advice in terms of their CVs and simulated a job interview.In the long term ESPRiT is going to support the project of the internet editorial office of buntkicktgut where kids play “reporters” and thus learn how to work in the journalistic field. ESPRiT will be active in the sense that the company is going to offer workshops for professional writing. In addition PR representatives will be working as mentors for the kids in order to help them write their articles. The main purpose of this project is to strengthen the kids´ self-esteem and make them feel better about working for buntkicktgut.
participants of Day of Care after the award ceremony
press commentaries for download
more impressions of the Day of Care
On July 22, 2006, one of the hottest days of the summer, the sweat was pouring off the brows of all those involved in the renovation of the Gauting Girls’ Home. More than 50 ESPRiT employees tore down meters of wood paneling from the walls of this Caritas youth facility for therapeutic care. The corridors were completely redecorated, the garden was weeded and cleared of undergrowth, a new barbecue area was constructed, and a herb garden was planted with spices for the home’s kitchen. With the slogan “Measuring with a yardstick not calculating with a laptop”, the ESPRiT employees lived up to their reputation as representatives of a top-quality consulting team. In less than six hours, our team had completed all the tasks that had been left undone for years due to a lack of public funding. At lunchtime some doubts were still being expressed about the feasibility of getting all jobs done in one day. But in the end they got the job done. Thanks to the entire ESPRiT team, from interns to board members, the girls’ home looks as good as new. At the end, Caritas and ESPRiT employees celebrated their achievement with a barbecue and live music.
ESPRiT has a green thumb – one team of the ESPRiT employees was taking care of planting the herbs for the kitchen of the girls´ asylum in Gauting.
The sun shone brightly for last Saturday’s Day of Care 2004. “Give it a go and be a winner!” was the rallying cry for this “It’s a Knockout” style event with competitors with disabilities playing alongside competitors without disabilities. The event was organized by the consulting firm ESPRiT Consulting in cooperation with Caritas Munich and took place at the Salesianum in the Munich district of Haidhausen. As well as the main event, which attracted 120 enthusiastic participants and around 200 spectators, there was an extensive program of sideshows to entertain the kids, including a bouncy castle, face painting, and a clown show. The proceeds of this charity event will go to help children and young people cared for by Caritas Munich.
active integration - Frank Hartman, ESPRiT Consultant, while mastering the wheelchair course at the Day of Care 2004
press release Day of Care 2004
In August 2002 this led to an unusual works outing for the ESPRiT employees: Instead of going canoeing, rafting or trekking as normal, the consultants built a children’s playground at the Caritas Addiction Clinic Fasanenhof in Munich.
ESPRiT partners Wolfram Finck und Stephan Marchner at the Day of Care 2002
For more information please visit www.day-of-care.net
Nepal Aid “Beilngries” Nepal Aid Beilngries was established in 1990 as a charitable private initiative to offer support those in need in Nepal. The goal of this organization is to provide humanitarian aid in the most direct way possible, without any administrative red tape. The guiding principle for all the organization’s activities is “helping people to help themselves”. ESPRiT provides particular support for the most prominent facility run by Nepal Aid Beilngries: The Shaligram orphanage in Lhubhu, around 12 km southeast of Katmandu. This orphanage provides a home for up to 35 girls and boys. They get all the love and security they need, as well as practical support in the form of schooling and vocational training. This approach fits well with the approach of consulting firm ESPRiT, as ESPRiT also focuses on training and further education.To be specific, the money donated by ESPRiT is used to cover the daily requirements of the orphanage. Examples of some of the good uses of the money are the procurement of a water tank, a biogas system, and a photovoltaic system, the financing of a new well, and the construction of greenhouses that contribute to sustaining the home. The goal is to make the children’s home self-sufficient.With a view to the current politically-unstable situation in Nepal, ESPRiT feels that it is particularly important to maintain its commitment to work in the community. This year much of the infrastructure in the area around the orphanage was damaged by extremely strong monsoon rains, so there is an ongoing requirement for aid and support. Nepal Aid Beilngries provides ESPRiT with plenty of feedback: For example, they make presentations at various company meetings, so that ESPRiT employees can keep track of exactly what happens to their money. more information about the Nepal Aid ESPRiT engagement on the charity label we care
Nepal Aid “Beilngries”
Nepal Aid Beilngries was established in 1990 as a charitable private initiative to offer support those in need in Nepal. The goal of this organization is to provide humanitarian aid in the most direct way possible, without any administrative red tape. The guiding principle for all the organization’s activities is “helping people to help themselves”. ESPRiT provides particular support for the most prominent facility run by Nepal Aid Beilngries: The Shaligram orphanage in Lhubhu, around 12 km southeast of Katmandu. This orphanage provides a home for up to 35 girls and boys. They get all the love and security they need, as well as practical support in the form of schooling and vocational training. This approach fits well with the approach of consulting firm ESPRiT, as ESPRiT also focuses on training and further education.To be specific, the money donated by ESPRiT is used to cover the daily requirements of the orphanage. Examples of some of the good uses of the money are the procurement of a water tank, a biogas system, and a photovoltaic system, the financing of a new well, and the construction of greenhouses that contribute to sustaining the home. The goal is to make the children’s home self-sufficient.With a view to the current politically-unstable situation in Nepal, ESPRiT feels that it is particularly important to maintain its commitment to work in the community. This year much of the infrastructure in the area around the orphanage was damaged by extremely strong monsoon rains, so there is an ongoing requirement for aid and support. Nepal Aid Beilngries provides ESPRiT with plenty of feedback: For example, they make presentations at various company meetings, so that ESPRiT employees can keep track of exactly what happens to their money.
more information about the Nepal Aid
ESPRiT engagement on the charity label we care
Initiative: “Art for kids – we are helping!”
In the spring of 2007, a group of enterprising students at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim founded the university initiative “Art for kids – we are helping!” within the framework of a seminar project. As ESPRiT Consulting strongly values support for children and young people, the consulting firm decided to actively support this initiative.
After six months of planning, the time had finally come for action: On 22 November, the six business administration students hosted the charity event “Art for kids – we are helping!” at the Lokschuppen Exhibition Center in Rosenheim. The goal of the event was to raise money for children from socially-deprived areas in Rosenheim as well as kids from the home “Schöne Aussicht”. A program of events had a colorful array of highlights, and was led by the radio presenter Michael Praetorius. Close to 170 guests from the art world, politics, and business attended the event. They were treated to a variety show that included musical accompaniment, with classical music, a local a cappella band, and Latin rhythms, as well as a state-of-the-art fashion show and a revue performance by a Bavarian comedian. In addition, representatives from the projects that benefited from the proceeds of the evening went on stage to give a personal presentation of their projects. Furthermore, the students organized a tombola, and auctioned off artworks that had been provided free of charge by the artists.Ronny Kübrich, one of the responsible students, comments: “We are delighted about the absolutely positive response we have received. We have really learnt a lot, and it has been fun to see that we can really make things happen. That’s why we want to establish this initiative as a long-term project at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim. We would like to take this opportunity to thank ESPRiT and all of our other sponsors.”
ESPRiT has been impressed by this project because it combines two socially-important aspects: Firstly, it gives better prospects to socially-disadvantaged children in Rosenheim, and secondly, the students from the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim have taken on responsibility for themselves, and have learnt in practice how such a huge event is organized.
For more information about the initiative “Art for kids – we are helping” and some impressions of the event itself, please go to the website of the project.
ESPRiT Sponsoring: cyclist with a handicap
At first Yvonne Marzinke only cycled with her mountain bike for fun but at the competition “World games of mountain biking 2004” in Austria the Bavarian state team noticed her great talent. With more professional training she became more and more successful: 2006 and 2007 she won the World Games of Mountainbiking, placed second and third place at the German championship, placed eighth at the UCI world championships in Bordeaux, France in both street and track races. Her biggest success so far was the third place at the UCI Para Pan American Games in Columbia in 2007. “Finding sponsors in cycling has become a lot more difficult. But especially in paralympic sports we depend very much on external funding as there are very few official funds. This is why I work 40 hours a week in spite of my tough training schedule. I am very pleased that ESPRiT has decided to sponsor me and I will continue to my very best in performing well in my races to come” explains Yvonne Marzinke. The programme for 2008 was ambitious: The biggest goal was the qualification for the Paralympics in Beijing, China. However, due to intransparent decisions and in spite of outstanding results she was not nominated. For 2009 she is planning on qualifying for the world championships in Seville, Spain. ESPRiT wishes her the best of luck for all her future accomplishments.
Sponsoring the TSG Usingen soccer team
ESPRiT Consulting has a special commitment to kids and young people. Increasingly, German sports clubs are losing members. Modern media have a strong influence on today’s society, and less and less young people engage in physical exercise. That’s why ESPRiT supports local club sports and has sponsored the under-sevens team of TSG Usingen, near Frankfurt/Main, by providing them with a set of soccer jerseys.
This squad of five- and six-year-olds has been training together for over a year, and has already shown some considerable successes: In the summer, they came first in three different tournaments. Since the beginning of the season, the little players have been asking where their team is in the table, but unfortunately there is no league table for this age group yet.
Introducing the team:
more information on the website of the TSG Usingen
press commentary about the TSG Usingen
news about the TSG Usingen
ESPRiT in Company Race/ Girls run for breast cancer research
ESPRiT Consulting has been taking an active part in the Munich Company Race for the last few years. Around 24,000 participants from various Munich companies participate in the run, and have the opportunity to prove their fitness over the 6.75 km course in the Munich Olympic Park. There were 24 runners in ESPRiT jerseys in the last race, which took place in July 2007.
It was at this event that the female participants in the team came up with the idea of combining their own sporting activity with a good cause and the social commitment of the company. Another Munich-based event, the Avon Women’s Race Against Breast Cancer, was the perfect opportunity. On the last weekend of the Oktoberfest, the eight ESPRiT girls found the motivation to run the five kilometer course through the English Gardens. ESPRiT Consulting paid both the starting fee and a charitable donation of 500 euro for the entire running team. This money goes 100 percent to projects run by the Bavarian Cancer Society. This organization is concerned with the prevention of breast cancer, and also provides direct, unbureaucratic support for women affected by the disease.
more information about the Munich company race
more information about the Avon Women’s Race
news about the Avon Women’s Race
eCh.ch ESPRiT Consulting supports the standardization initiative eCh.ch. The Swiss association is a platform for the promotion of eGovernment standards. By establishing and coordinating appropriate standards, eCH makes electronic communication between government authorities easier. Communication between the authorities and private individuals, companies, organizations, and training and research establishments is also made more straightforward. In addition, eCH encourages the adoption of international standards and seeks to cooperate with other national and international organizations that are working towards standardization. ESPRiT Consulting was involved from the beginning and leads the specialist group “Process Inventory”. This group has the following goals: the most complete overview possible of processes relevant to eGovernment, which can be referred to for the prioritisation of eCH work, strategy formation, and security considerations comparison with inventories (experience) from other countries highlighting of the most important dependencies between the processes and of core entities proposals for documentation guidelines clustering of processes The specialist group “Process Inventory” is chaired by Lars Erdmann, an ESPRiT Consulting Partner with responsibility for technology issues.
eCh.ch
ESPRiT Consulting supports the standardization initiative eCh.ch. The Swiss association is a platform for the promotion of eGovernment standards. By establishing and coordinating appropriate standards, eCH makes electronic communication between government authorities easier. Communication between the authorities and private individuals, companies, organizations, and training and research establishments is also made more straightforward. In addition, eCH encourages the adoption of international standards and seeks to cooperate with other national and international organizations that are working towards standardization.
ESPRiT Consulting was involved from the beginning and leads the specialist group “Process Inventory”. This group has the following goals:
The specialist group “Process Inventory” is chaired by Lars Erdmann, an ESPRiT Consulting Partner with responsibility for technology issues.
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