RAG_Stiftung_Logo_small RAG-STIFTUNG Our roots lie in the coal mining industry. Accordingly, we bear responsibility for financing the perpetual obligations that the German hard coal mining industry has left behind, and we are generating the funds that are needed to fulfil these obligations. In addition, we promote projects in the areas of education, science and culture in order to support the transformation of the former mining regions. Learn more about the RAG-Stiftung PERPETUAL OBLIGATIONS The RAG-Stiftung is taking on the huge responsibility of financing the perpetual obligations for an unlimited period of time. These measures include pit water management, polder measures and groundwater purification. All of them have one thing in common: the water that has to be regulated, partly underground and partly above ground, even after the discontinuation of mining activities. PIT WATER MANAGEMENT RAG AG is responsible for pit water management in the former hard coal mining regions. At the bottom of a former mineshaft hundreds of metres under the surface, the pit water is collected and transported to the surface by powerful pumps and pipes, then channelled into watercourses. The pumping system is designed redundantly. In case of a malfunction, each pump can be quickly replaced by another. The new pit water concept of RAG for the post-mining era will in the medium term require only six central pit water drainage stations in the Ruhr region. POLDER MEASURES GROUND WATER PURIFICATION Perpetual Obligations SUPPORT The duties that are firmly established in the RAG-Stiftung’s articles of association include not only financing the perpetual obligations but also supporting education, science and culture. Through its support activities, the RAG-Stiftung fulfils its responsibility toward the former mining regions in many different ways. It generates significant momentum and makes a crucial contribution to the future development of the Ruhr and Saar regions and Ibbenbüren. EDUCATION The mine locations along the Ruhr and Saar regions and in Ibbenbüren also used to be significant training centres, especially in recent years. They enabled teenagers with limited opportunities to enter the trainee and job markets. The RAG-Stiftung has continued this positive tradition of the mining industry down to the present day by making education and training a focus of its funding activities. Today the emphasis is on the foundation’s own support projects in the former mining regions. SCIENCE CULTURE Our Support CONTACT LEGAL NOTICE DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT IMPRINT We use cookies in order to make the operation of this website possible (technical cookies) and to analyse it. If you click on “Yes, I agree”, you give your consent to the use of all cookies. If you click on “Refuse unnecessary cookies” then only technical cookies will be used. You can individually adjust your cookie settings by clicking on “Change user settings”. Alternatively, you can decide not to permit certain cookies. Blocking certain cookies can, however, lead to an impaired user experience on our website. Please read our Cookie guidelines in order to learn more about the use of cookies on our website. For legal reasons the content of our Investor Relations sub-page should not be available to visitors with their primary residence outside Germany (in particular, in the USA). This is ensured by the Investor Relations cookie, which enables the page access after you have input your postcode and an appropriate location Yes, I agree Refuse unnecessary cookies Change user settings