Hannover Re already maintains long-standing partnerships with various areas of society in the role of sponsor. Particularly close to our heart is support for research and learning as well as for music and art.

Research and learning

The reinsurance of catastrophe risks forms part of Hannover Re’s core business. In order to correctly assess risks, a constant transfer of knowledge between business and research – which enables Hannover Re to apply the very latest insights – is of crucial importance. In this context the company supports the highly renowned Geo Research Center in Potsdam, an institution that engages in the systematic investigation and early detection of earthquakes.

Since 2009 Hannover Re has also supported the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) project initiated by the OECD with financial backing of altogether EUR 1 million. The model, which is scheduled to be developed by 2013, is intended among other things to help local authorities in earthquake-exposed zones to draw up more efficient contingency plans and, if disaster strikes, to facilitate the more rapid delivery of aid.

Dialogue with universities is another cornerstone of our support for research and learning. Among other things, Hannover Re sponsors an endowed professorship in actuarial science at the University of Hannover.

Music and art

E+S Rück, our subsidiary with responsibility for the German market, organises so-called examination concerts in cooperation with the University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover. Since the first concert was held back in 1998, we have assisted three or four of the university’s “master students” each year as they seek to embark on their career as soloists, while at the same time offering our clients a musical highlight.

Hannover Re also supports the Kestnergesellschaft, an art association whose roots in Hannover go back to 1916, through its participation in the latter’s partner programme: in its role as a “kestnerpartner” the company is able to promote the society’s work on a continuous and lasting basis.