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Youth Program TANNER
The TANNER Youth Program: From childhood to maturity
TANNER, Freudenberg’s international youth program, was launched in 1999. The first participants, children of Freudenberg associates all over the world, have now already started out on their careers.
Many of the young people who took part in the youth program are now benefiting from their TANNER experience in training posts or their first jobs; aged 14 – 20, they traveled on their own to a Freudenberg site, encountering new people and lifestyles, making contacts and finding their way around in a foreign language. Today’s international world of work calls for all these skills.
The success of the TANNER program is not just confirmed by the figures: over 600 young people have now spent a few weeks with the family of another Freudenberg associate in a different country and enjoyed the experience of a foreign culture. The participants, their parents and hosts experience a stronger identification with the worldwide Freudenberg community. Friendships are made and a great personal effort goes into continuing these contacts well beyond the end of the stay – across national borders, professional levels, corporate departments and companies. A close-knit network of TANNER contacts around the world provides professional support for this special form of international cooperation in the Freudenberg Group.