Our responsibility
Our path to ensuring corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Responsibility and sustainability are the basis of our corporate behaviour and are reflected as important guiding values in our business activities and our corporate culture.
Dirk Kretzschmar, Managing Director TÜV Informationstechnik
Our clients are at the centre of everything we do
We enable them to focus on their core business by reliably protecting their ICT systems.
Our employees are the key to our success
ICT security is part of their DNA. We promote the sustainable development of their expertise and advocate a better work-life balance.
Our culture of innovation points to the future
We assert ourselves on the market through agility, curiosity in progress and a high willingness to change.
Our diversity opens up new opportunities
We cooperate globally with selected partners and pool important expertise.
Our sustainability opens up paths into the future
We pay particular attention to the economic, ecological and social impact of our decisions and actions.
Our integrity is the basis of all our actions
As a neutral body, we always maintain our independence.
In the 2024 Progress Report, the TÜV NORD GROUP presents its efforts and successes in the areas of responsibility and sustainability and shows which measures have been taken to make a positive contribution to the environment and society. The focus is particularly on the changes and highlights of 2024 and the achievement of the CR roadmap targets.
Our topics in the "Company" field of action
The integration of Controllable Local Systems (CLS) into the German smart meter system is an important prerequisite for the energy transition & digitalisation of the energy industry. TÜVIT is developing the necessary secure specifications for the BSI.
With the increasing use of AI technologies, the risks of faulty AI systems, data misuse & cyber attacks are also increasing. We protect people from possible negative effects in the form of AI tests & certifications.
Ensuring software quality is an important building block for sustainable economic growth in the digital world. With the Code Score Matrix, we offer a fully digitalised testing process that reduces the impact on employees and the environment.
Our topics in the "People" field of action
TÜVIT promotes IT education at schools with IT2School. With IT2School, pupils take a look behind the scenes of the digital world and learn the basics of information and communication technology and artificial intelligence.
We train primarily high-performing and ambitious employees to become experts in their field within the framework of specialised career paths, thus enabling them to pursue a career even without personnel responsibility.
TÜVIT is a member of the Bochum Association for the Promotion of IT Security and Computer Science. The aim of the association is to pool the strengths of Bochum's IT ecosystem, facilitate the exchange between science and industry and provide sustainable support for research and teaching.
Our topics in the "Environment" field of action
We prioritise digital meetings, avoid domestic flights and create incentives for the BahnCard100 and environmentally friendly company cars. There are 40 electric charging points available at our Essen site. We offset necessary air travel by making compensation payments in favour of suitable climate protection projects.
At the end of 2021, TÜVIT moved into new offices in the TÜV NORD Technology Park in Essen, which are supplied with green electricity and climate-friendly district heating. We are also reducing energy consumption per employee by increasingly introducing shared desk models and combining them with the offer of location-flexible working.
Since 2022, employees from the IT department of the TÜV NORD GROUP have been refurbishing decommissioned laptops
by removing functional parts and reusing them as spare parts. In this way, we reduce the amount of harmful chemicals and metals disposed of.
