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A group of people stand in an orchard next to an information board and look at the camera together.

06/16/2025

Audi Environmental Foundation supports the Preservation of Orchard Meadows in Neckarsulm

The orchards in Neckarsulm are being protected in the project “Preserving and shaping orchards together” (Steg:Geo). Audi Environmental Foundation, Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences, the city and trainees are thus promoting regional biodiversity.

Man wearing a safety vest stands in a workshop presenting a cylindrical filter system on an orange box.

06/05/2025

Next Milestone Achieved: The URBANFILTER Sustainability Hub

With the establishment of the URBANFILTER SUSTAINABILITY HUB, a big step is being taken towards practice. The aim of the HUB is to gain further experience from the use of the various prototypes of the URBANFILTER and to make it available to users, such as municipalities. With an open-source approach, this exchange platform promotes the dissemination and optimization of innovative filter solutions for road drains.

09/13/2024

Audi Environmental Foundation and Litro de Luz bring solar lighting to remote villages in Brazil

The Audi Environmental Foundation and Audi do Brasil have been supporting the NGO Litro de Luz Brasil since 2022, which aims to give people in remote areas without electricity access to solar lighting.

Audi Environmental Foundation stand at the Greentech Festival 2024

07/23/2024

Review Greentech Festival 2024 in Berlin

For the fifth time, the Audi Environmental Foundation was part of the Greentech Festival in Berlin and presented its current Greenovation projects.

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we4bee – Digitally Networked Beehives

The bee research by we4bee and supported by the Audi Environmental Foundation has collected billions of individual data points so far. The first scientific findings are now available.

Two young people install a solar-powered listening station in the form of a nesting box in a meadow.

06/17/2025

The “Horchboxes”: Smart technology recognizes bird calls

In collaboration with the LBV, Audi apprentices developed so-called “Horchboxes”. These AI-based recording devices for bird calls are intended to help document changes in biodiversity in various regions.

People unloading solar modules from covered boats on the banks of a river, partly hidden by leaves in the foreground.

06/16/2025

Solar power for biodiversity monitoring in the Peruvian rainforest

Solar systems for a e-DNA research project in Peru ensure a sustainable energy supply for research and forest ranger stations.

06/15/2023

"Restore our Bays": Coastal restoration in the U.S.A.

The Audi Environmental Foundation recently launched the "Restore our Bays" initiative to support and promote coastal restoration in the United States of America. As part of this project, two non-profit organizations, Save The Bay and The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, are supported with financial support from the Audi Environmental Foundation and volunteer work by Audi of America employees.

04/14/2022

Completion of the feasibility study CO2-regio

The Audi Foundation for the Environment provided financial support for a study on the subject of rebuilding and protecting peatland, the "CO,-regio" feasibility study, which developed a catalog of measures designed to show farmers with land in peatland areas economically attractive, alternative uses.

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Audi Environmental Foundation supports the Preservation of Orchard Meadows in Neckarsulm

Next Milestone Achieved: The URBANFILTER Sustainability Hub

Audi Environmental Foundation and Litro de Luz bring solar lighting to remote villages in Brazil

Review Greentech Festival 2024 in Berlin

we4bee – Digitally Networked Beehives

Biodiversity and ecosystems

The “Horchboxes”: Smart technology recognizes bird calls

Solar power for biodiversity monitoring in the Peruvian rainforest

"Restore our Bays": Coastal restoration in the U.S.A.

Completion of the feasibility study CO2-regio

"Restore our Bays": Coastal restoration in the U.S.A.

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