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AUDI AG has also been supporting internal and external women’s networks for many years. On
their career pathway to management, female employees are supported as part of a mentoring
program. In addition to optimizing the basic framework for making working and family life
compatible, the Company is planning other supporting measures.
PROPORTION OF WOMEN AT AUDI AG
% 2011 2010
Apprentices 24.2 24.0
Industrial apprentices 21.3 20.9
Clerical trainees 75.8 76.5
Management 9.1 9.3
Senior Management 3.7 3.9
Top Management 2.6 0.0
AUDI IN SOCIETY
Employee and corporate donations
Over 99 percent of the Audi workforce contributed to the Christmas fundraising campaign in the
2011 fiscal year. The total amount raised by the employees, and topped up by the Company,
reached the new record sum of EUR 800,000. As every year, the fundraising campaign led by the
employees’ elected representatives is to help charities and organizations in the home regions of
the Company locations.
Audi employees and the Company collected a total of EUR 1.3 million for the victims of the natural
disaster in Japan and supported the call for donations by the VW Group Works Council for famine
relief in East Africa.
The “Spare Cents” campaign – where many employees donate the remaining cents after the
decimal point on their monthly payslip – also raised around EUR 225,000 for street children
projects run by “terre des hommes.”
Research partnerships
122 research students are currently preparing their doctoral theses within the Audi Group on
topics spanning technology, economics, the humanities and the social sciences. Around 70 percent
of doctoral theses are prepared in tandem with one of the Company’s partner universities. In
2011, over 80 percent of research students were given permanent positions by the Audi Group
after completing their doctoral theses.
The doctoral students meeting “Pro Motion,” where doctoral students present the current status
of their research work, took place for the seventh time in 2011; this acts as a vital forum for
specialist discussions among doctoral students, employees and members of management.
The Audi Group again facilitated exchanges between the world of research, schools and the public
in 2011. AUDI AG organized another series of lectures (INI. and HIN. seminar) last year under
the banner of “Hands-On University,” where lecturers from partner universities presented the
latest findings from their research. Ingolstadt hosted the 50th INI. seminar in the past fiscal
year. Together with the partners Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Tech-
nical University of Munich, the University of Stuttgart and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT), the Company also offered advanced events (INI. and HIN.JUGEND.KOLLEG) to introduce
school students from eighth grade upward to the world of science and technology. A total of
over 2,000 school students and adults attended the “Hands-On University” events in 2011.
The partnership set up in 2010 with the prestigious Tongji University of Shanghai in China took
effect last year and was further extended. The “Audi Tongji Joint Lab” embarked upon projects in
the areas of marketing, electric mobility, design and IT.