In accordance with Fraunhofer’s guiding principles, we consider it our mission to make our business operations more sustainable. Engagement with the topics of economic security, social justice and ecological balance as the classical pillars of sustainability enables us to shape the future of our institute with foresight and responsibility. In cooperation and dialogue with employees and other Fraunhofer institutes in the Fraunhofer Sustainability Network, we are reflecting on a variety of topics and generating new ideas to improve internal processes and research in view of sustainable development. The preparation of our second sustainability report in 2014 served as a means to record the status quo, and to identify and plan improvements.