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• Cooperative project to train more than 600 young women from five countries in Africa in ICT, coding, leadership and communications skills, in the context of the African Girls Can Code Initiative
• Siemens to make €780,000 available in the form of hardware, IT training materials and technical assistance to enhance young girls’ access to jobs and employment opportunities
• UN Women Liaison Office to African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to coordinate activities under the umbrella of „African Girls Can Code Initiative“

Siemens AG and UN Women Germany committed to jointly support the implementation of the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI), an Africa continental program which aims to provide comprehensive training in information and communication technology (ICT) as well as coding and leadership skills to girls and young women in Africa. In this connection, the partners emphasized the vital role education plays in addressing gender inequalities and accelerating the empowerment of women and girls. The project’s target group comprises young women aged 17 to 25 from Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Within two years, as many as 625 young women will benefit from the partnership; all offerings are free of charge for the participants. By 2023, Siemens will initially provide €500,000 for this cause and will support two-week, full-time coding camps in the five countries with digital literacy, programming as well as personal development skills. Specifically, the coding camps will cover topics such as robotics, the Internet of Things, animation, 3D printing, gender equality and women’s empowerment, leadership, and communications. 

• Hydrogen generation plant with electrical capacity of 8.75 megawatts opened in Wunsiedel
• Facility to generate 1,350 tons of hydrogen a year and cut CO2 emissions by about 13,500 tons
• Opening attended by Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder and Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius
• Siemens is technology and financing partner

In Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, one of Germany’s largest green hydrogen generation plants has been planned digitally and commissioned by Siemens, demonstrating the key role hydrogen can play in Germany’s energy future. Around one year after the official groundbreaking ceremony, Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder, Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius and Siemens Financial Services CEO Veronika Bienert handed over the plant to the operating company WUN H2, represented by Managing Directors Thilo Rießner and Philipp Matthes.

• Siemens empowers world premiere of the Opera Namibia project Chief Hijangua in Windhoek
• Opera staged by a multinational team of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa

On September 9, 2022, an ensemble of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa presented at the National Theatre of Namibia the premier performance of Namibia’s very first opera in the country’s capital, Windhoek. Chief Hijangua is a celebration of a bilingual and intercultural exchange on the dramatic history that Namibia and Germany shared during colonial times and is sung in Otjiherero – one of Namibia’s national languages – and German. 

• The global charitable organization Siemens Caring Hands will provide $250,000 to Unlimited Tomorrow Global Initiative to secure prostheses for victims in Ukraine
• Siemens software is used for the personalized development and 3D printing of prostheses, enabling delivery directly to victims in the Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has produced numerous amputation victims. In total, more than 10,000 prostheses are needed in the country. To help those affected who have lost one or more limbs, Unlimited Tomorrow Global Initiative (UTGI) has launched a fundraising initiative in partnership with Singularity Group to deliver 100 of its personalized TrueLimb prostheses to Ukraine. Siemens Caring Hands is contributing to the initiative through an initial $250,000 donation, which will cover the costs for 25 victims.

• More than 1,300 apprentices and university students in work-study programs begin careers at Siemens locations across Germany in 2022
• Focus on personalized skill development
• Training program for digital-transformation qualifications expanded again
• Siemens invests €160 million a year in training programs

This year, as in 2021, more than 1,300 apprentices and university students in work-study programs will begin their work lives at Siemens locations across Germany. These traineeships include 800 positions at Siemens AG, 190 at Siemens Mobility, and 130 at Siemens Healthineers. In addition, 200 trainees from the company’s external partners are also beginning training programs offered by Siemens Professional Education. More than half of the overall number of traineeships are in work-study programs for university students. Siemens has one of the private sector’s largest and most innovative job training programs worldwide and invests €160 million a year in this area.

• New leadership appointments effective October 1, 2022
• Jenny Bofinger, currently head of Sustainability, will join the board of the newly formed International Sustainability Standards Board

Siemens AG today announced new leadership appointments in its Sustainability and Investor Relations departments, effective October 1. Eva Riesenhuber (49), currently head of Investor Relations, will assume the role of global head of Sustainability and Eva Scherer (38), currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Rail Infrastructure and Software Business Units at Siemens Mobility, is appointed head of Investor Relations.