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17. August 2023 ·

Social Partnerships

International youth gathering in Austria

Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein invited 30 young people from 12 countries to Europaburg Forchtenstein in Styria.

In the second week of August, everything at Forchtenstein Castle in Neumarkt, Styria, revolved around Europe’s future for the fourth time: a total of 30 young people aged between 14 and 17 years – from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Serbia – worked together to sketch a picture of Europe in the future. This dialogue week, entitled EYFON VIG YouthDays, was made possible by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, the main shareholder of Austria’s largest international insurance group, Vienna Insurance Group (VIG).

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11. May 2023 ·

Ringturm Wrapping

"Wandering icebergs" in the heart of Vienna

Commissioned by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, this year’s artistic covering of the Ringturm brings a touch of seaside flair to the Danube Canal – while also subtly drawing attention to the problem of climate change.

An initiative of Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, the Ringturm will be transformed this summer into what at first glance looks like an idyllic summertime scene showing bathers on a sandy beach. But the clouds in the background and the sharp silhouettes that jump out from Slovenian artist Vanja Bućan’s design hint at a change on the horizon. They reference the icebergs that give the work its name and are intended to turn the spotlight on climate change and its devastating consequences. “It’s particularly satisfying if we can also use art as a means of raising awareness of important topical issues such as climate change. And that is exactly what we are doing this year with Wandering Icebergs by Slovenian artist Vanja Bućan, whose work on the banks of the Danube Canal will give the people of Vienna a taste of summer, sea and sunshine,” as Robert Lasshofer, Chairman of the Managing Board of Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, the main shareholder of Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), explained. The Group entered the Slovenian insurance market with the Wiener Städtische zavarovalnica podružnica brand in 2004.

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26. September 2022 ·

General

Günter Geyer receives high-level Slovakian honour

The Slovak Republic’s prestigious Golden Biatec Award goes to Günter Geyer, insurance company manager and pioneer of the expansion of Austrian businesses to Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s.

On Monday 26 September, Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein Supervisory Board Chairman Günter Geyer was presented with the Golden Biatec Award at a ceremony held on the 20th floor of the Ringturm. Upper Austrian-born Geyer joins a select list of internationally renowned recipients of the award that includes former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, former French President Jacques Chirac, US economist Jeffrey Sachs, James D. Wolfensohn, previously President of the World Bank, futurist John Naisbitt, and ex-VW boss Ferdinand Piëch.

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10. May 2022 ·

Ringturm Wrapping

Ringturm covering 2022 sends out signal of optimism and togetherness

This year, Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer will transform the Ringturm in Vienna into a larger-than-life artwork called With each other – sending out a powerful message of hope after two years shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Entitled ‘With each other’, the 4,000 square metre artwork is made up of a total of 30 printed netting sheets, each around 3m wide and up to 63m long. Diagonally intersecting stripes in a spectrum of bright, cheerful colours trace a path across the facade of the buildings on the Ringstrasse boulevard, overlooking the Danube Canal, in Vienna city centre. Created especially for the wrapping of the Ringturm, the artwork’s origins go back to an elaborate system of geometric and chromatic elements devised by Dóra Maurer some 30 years ago, which she has continued to develop in the intervening years.

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3. December 2021 ·

Social Partnerships

10 Years of Social Active Day

10th anniversary: supporting good causes – from Austria to Georgia

Over the past decade, thousands of employees in 22 countries have given a total of 300,000 hours of their time to help people in need.

5 December is International Volunteer Day. Introduced in 1985, this special day focuses on promoting and honouring commitment to voluntary activities worldwide. Every year, employees at the Vienna Insurance Group – Austria’s largest international insurance group – can spend one working day volunteering in support of good causes. Titled Social Active Day, this unique initiative was launched in 2011 – in the middle of the economic and financial crisis – by VIG’s main shareholder, Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein.

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Alexandra Mühlbachler

Sponsoring

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Romy Schrammel

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