ESG

Since the company's founding, Babbel has believed strongly in a commitment to ESG principles. We have incorporated this belief not just in our product, but in the way we engage with our learners and the communities around us. This is in the DNA of Babbel.

From our founders to our current management team, we believe ESG principles play a significant role in building a strong company.

ESG highlights are shown below, with further detail in our 2021 ESG Report.

FY21 ESG Report

Environmental Initiatives

In addition to long-standing initiatives, such as 100% reliance on renewable energy in our Berlin office, we have implemented new green initiatives in both of our offices.

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Social Contribution

Social good is at the heart of what we do, providing accessible language learning opportunities across the globe. This works for our learners as well as for us internally. Babbel employs people across more than 68 nationalities, with gender equality across levels, including senior management.

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Governance Best Practice

Babbel Group AG has a Supervisory Board that includes founders, long-time advisors and a global selection of Education industry experts. We are gender balanced across the Management Board, the executive board and throughout the company.

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Diversity by Numbers

One of our core values is “Diversity makes us stronger,” and we are working continuously to make Babbel an increasingly diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees.

Social Impact

Babbel operates from the belief that products, and companies, should be developed to solve a real user problem and be rooted in purpose.

With this background, Babbel created free language courses for Ukrainians to learn German, Polish and English. Created with Babbel's high quality standards, the courses offer native Ukrainian speakers the opportunity to learn for free with Babbel’s award-winning app.

As of today, more than 300,000 Ukrainian speakers have learned with Babbel's free language courses.

Our business directly addresses two of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

UN SDGs

As a language-learning company, there is a clear connection between our products, our purpose and SDG 4. Additionally, many of our social impact initiatives focus on education access and equity.

As a company, we are committed to working towards a more equitable product and workplace, with initiatives promoting gender equality through our salary benchmarking and 50/50 gender parity throughout the company, diversity and equity initiatives in content creation. This is how we are advancing SDG 10.