Corporate Social Responsibility

FERI attaches great importance to the topic of education (deeper insights = better education). Therefore, our social commitment is particularly focused on SDG 4 "Quality Education". We are convinced that many other aspects of sustainable social stability and development are positively influenced via qualitative and targeted education.

As part of FERI4Education, we cooperate with schools in Bad Homburg to spark students' interest in careers and courses of study related to sustainability during career information days and workshops.

We support Kinderschutzbund Kreisverband Hochtaunus (KSB) since our 2021 Christmas donation. Equal education for children is particularly important to us and this is exactly what Kristina Odak and her team are committed to every day. In spring 2022, we supported KSB through our internal #FERIhilft campaign to set up an education center that helps refugee children and mothers from Ukraine getting off to a good start in Bad Homburg.

In addition to financial support, we are also active ourselves. For example, we read together with the KSB after-school children on the annual nationwide reading aloud day (Bundesweiter Vorlesetag). 

At FERI, helping the affected people from/in Ukraine is very close to our hearts. Inspired by suggestions from our colleagues, we supported various aid campaigns over the course of the year.

The projects selected were as diverse as our locations. But financial help is not enough for our colleagues - they often became active there themselves.

Together with our parent company, we offset our CO2 emissions through selected climate protection projects run by the ClimatePartner organization. These not only plant trees in regional forests, but also work to protect forests and species in the Peruvian Amazonas region, for example through environmental education for the local population. 

Thanks to this commitment, we are a climate-neutral company within the Group. 

We put great importance to using clean energy for our daily work and are constantly looking for new ways to further reduce our environmental footprint. For example, we have been sourcing green electricity for all our sites since 2019 and offer our employees a wide range of e-vehicles (cars and e-bikes) to make the journey to work and to customers as emission-free as possible. At the in-house e-pumps at our headquarters in Bad Homburg, these - but also the private e-vehicles of FERI employees - can be charged during working hours so that they can be mobile at all times. 

Since 2020, we have had little striped subtenants in our front garden in Bad Homburg - the FERI bees. What originally served to protect the bee population and thus promote biodiversity quickly developed into a personal matter of the heart for us. The FERI bees are now an integral part of our sustainability concept and additionally delight us several times a year with their "liquid gold". They also find the nectar for this on our green roof areas.