“Unfortunately, the past weeks have shown that life in peace and freedom in Europe cannot be taken for granted,” says Markus Duesmann, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG. “Millions continue to fear for their lives and their future, and hundreds of thousands have had to flee to neighboring European countries. The people coming to us from Ukraine need our solidarity now.” Audi has now dedicated to making a further € 750,000 in donations to Ukraine help tasks at its Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm websites. The cash is meant to profit regional help organizations, together with the Red Cross, Caritas, Diakonie, the Workers’ Samaritan Federation, and the meals banks which might be offering aid in these areas.
Audi took a stand instantly after the battle broke out on February 24: along with the opposite manufacturers in the Volkswagen Group, it supported speedy on-site help and donated € 1 million, € 750,000 of which went to UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe. Audi Hungaria allotted € 250,000 for regional help tasks in Hungary. International Audi areas have additionally been very keen to assist. Audi Brussels is giving € 100,000 to the Belgian Red Cross, which operates reception facilities for refugees. Lamborghini donated € 500,000 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Additional materials and financial donations are at present being deliberate.
Uninterrupted willingness to assist
At the identical time, quite a few help tasks for refugees from Ukraine are underway in the Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm areas. In the spirit of being a very good neighbor, Audi is supporting these engagements by offering automobiles to Malteser International and Johanniter Unfall Hilfe. Donations additionally went to the spherical desk that runs a logistics middle in Ingolstadt in cooperation with the Audi staff’ initiative “Audi Employees Helping Ukraine;” the Albert Schweitzer Children’s Village in Waldenburg close to Neckarsulm, which helps Ukrainian ladies and kids in disaster conditions; and the Familienzentrum Schillerstrasse in Heilbronn, which organizes language lessons and neighborhood facilities for refugee kids and their mother and father. Some of these donations have been permitted as half of the “Team Spirit Initiative,” which enabled Audi staff to marketing campaign for donation recipients. In addition, many staff labored on volunteer projects.
Open home days on the Audi plant for younger refugees
Audi is additionally working for people from Ukraine with respect to schooling. The schooling middle in Ingolstadt is at present providing open home days for refugees between the ages of 13 and 17. Similar to a scholar internship, this enables these adolescents to get acquainted with vocational coaching at Audi and uncover new skills. They make their very own showpieces like aluminum sensible cellphone instances or personalised key chains. Additionally, they will see what it’s like to suit tires, set up headlights, or service an engine and conduct sensible workouts on 3D printers, CNC machines, laser chopping instruments, or the froth milling machine. It’s an trade that overcomes linguistic and private boundaries and does invaluable integration work. Additional open home weeks are being deliberate for that purpose.
Digital artwork public sale for UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe
A spectacular digital occasion is taking place proper now: At the Audi sales space on the Online Marketing Rockstars Event (OMR) in Hamburg, the corporate with the 4 rings offered an AI-driven sculpture created by Eylul Alici and Ferdi Alici with their Ouchhh studio. The focus is on the people: all OMR guests actively contribute to the event of the paintings with their particular person actions, interactions with one another, and experiences. Works by Ouchhh had beforehand been exhibited around the globe and obtained a number of awards, together with the German Design Award. At the Audi Event Space, emotional aesthetics merged with expertise: the always altering set up developed by means of synthetic intelligence expertise that utilized guests’ motion information. The artists positioned moments of the OMR and progress itself on the middle of their work. The digital paintings is being auctioned off in the shape of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) in cooperation with Timeless Investments and Brandneo. Interested patrons can put themselves down on a whitelist from May 18 to May 27. All the proceeds will go to UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe e.V. in support of Ukraine. You can discover extra data here.
