Monheim, Germany
January 26, 2009
Bayer CropScience
and the North Carolina State
University (NCSU) formed a historic partnership. Pascal
Housset, Head of the Business Operations unit Environmental
Science at Bayer CropScience, presented Dr. Johnny Wynne, NCSU’s
dean of the College Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), with a
$1 million endowment to establish a Chair of Sustainable
Development at the NCSU. When Housset addresses NCSU’s
sustainability symposium, entitled “Stewards of the Future:
Research for Global Sustainability Tomorrow”, NCSU’s burgeoning
new sustainability programs.
“We are honored to have Bayer as a partner in our research
efforts to find solutions to the complex problems that issues
like global climate change, population growth, and food and
water shortages present,” said Wynne. “Under Pascal Housset’s
leadership, Environmental Science has discovered new and
innovative ways to marry business and the environment, to the
benefit of both.”
Vital to the sustainability culture that Housset has worked hard
to cultivate at Environment Science is the notion that
partnership – in this case with academia – is critical to
success. “We cannot achieve our goals alone. That is why the
research expertise of North Carolina State makes the university
an ideal partner,” Housset said. “It is within our power to
achieve great success for our company while effecting critical
change that will benefit society as a whole. It is simply
essential to protect the world in which we live and work.
Together with the university, we will take great strides in that
direction.”
Engaging in partnerships with results that go far beyond its
campus borders is nothing new for NCSU. “It (partnering) is an
important part of who we are,” Wynne said. “Here at NCSU we have
a long history of partnerships in the public and private
sector.” Those partnerships have produced more than 70 start-up
companies and a NCSU portfolio consisting of more than 600
patents. NCSU partnership activities also include 61
corporations and government agencies that employ more than 1,500
employees who work alongside NCSU researchers.
The sustainability culture that Environmental Science shares
with NCSU is reflected throughout the company internally and
externally through various business practices that include the
development of new products dedicated to reducing carbon in the
Earth’s atmosphere by promoting plant health. “As the world
becomes more conscious of the climate change crisis, demand for
products that meet the dual needs of business and the
environment increases,” Housset said. “Events such as the NCSU
symposium provide a wonderful opportunity to enlist the help of
the academic and research communities to support those dual
objectives. All of us at Environmental Science are excited about
this new chapter in our partnership with NCSU.”
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the
fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer
CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of
about EUR 5.8 billion (2007), is one of the world’s leading
innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop
protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant
biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of
products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable
agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer
Crop¬Science has a global workforce of about 17,800 and is
represented in more than 120 countries.
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