Education and Research

At Bayer, the sponsorship of school education is based on three pillars: The Bayer Science & Education Foundation supports innovative school projects in the natural sciences and encourages young people to study by granting scholarships. In specially equipped school laboratories, the “Baylabs”, Bayer enables children and young people to conduct exciting experiments on their own under professional guidance. In addition, the company sponsors the “Jugend forscht” (in German) youth science competition and is also a partner to the Biology and Chemistry Olympiad. An international initiative for the sponsorship of school education is the “Making Science Make Sense” program, which was introduced in the United States in 1995. 1,200 Bayer employees now visit schools regularly on a volunteer basis to demonstrate to the children just how exciting natural sciences can be. Because of its tremendous success in the United States, similar projects have been introduced in Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the United Kingdom