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Employee Networks

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) offer employees the opportunity to network with colleagues with similar interests, backgrounds or fields of activity and to jointly expand their knowledge and skills. Exchanging ideas with colleagues at network meetings is a first step to enrich your personal and professional development.

Join the employee networks early on – for an open and respectful working atmosphere and your personal development here in BASF.

Women in BASF

Women in BASF (WIB) is an employee resource group open to all employees. WIB Ludwigshafen was founded in 2010 and is one of the first and biggest resource groups within BASF SE. Women in BASF as well as further community-specific women networks (find out more below) seek to achieve equal career opportunities for all employees. To this end, WIB can support BASF with recruiting, developing and retaining female employees, establishing a new leadership culture, and consolidating BASF’s role in the market.

Women in BASF (WIB)

As an employee network, Women in BASF (WIB) is open to all employees. WIB Ludwigshafen was founded in 2010 and is one of the first and largest interest groups within BASF. Networks for women strive for equal career opportunities for all employees. To this purpose, WIB supports the recruitment, development and retention of women in the company, contributes to a new management culture in discussions and events and advocates BASF as an attractive employer.

We offer the following networks:

• Women in BASF (WIB)

• Women in Digital (WiDi)

• Women in Research (WIR)

• Women in Tech Business (WIT)

• Women in Production (WIP)

Men's Network

The Men's Network aims to create awareness for the specific needs and perspectives of men in all phases and steps of their career. Flexible work arrangements and part-time options for men are one of various topics of the network.

LGBT+Friends

The BASF Employee Resource Group LGBT+Friends Ludwigshafen was founded in 2012. This network of employees deals, for example, with the interests, issues and concerns of homosexual, bisexual and transgender employees. The LGBT+Friends Community offers a forum for networking and exchanging experiences and is open to all interested employees.

June is global Pride Month, when people around the world show their support for the LGBTI movement in many ways. BASF also raises the rainbow flag, a symbol of the movement. We support numerous employee resource groups focusing on LGBTI topics. They offer employees the opportunity to exchange views on LGBTI issues, raise awareness and actively advocate for diversity.

Neurodiversity@Work

The Neurodiversity@Work network advocates for a workplace culture that makes neurodiverse perspectives visible and strengthens them. Its focus is on exchange, information, and mutual support. The group creates space for connection, raises awareness, and drives tangible changes in the work environment so that individual strengths can be contributed and fully developed.