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Joan Maria Garcia Girona (BASF vice president & head of business centre South Africa & sub-Sahara).

Creator Space™ programme

will take place in India, China, USA, South America, Spain and Germany. The SA anniversary programme The South African anniversary programme sees a number of highly interactive events being hosted throughout the region involving scientists, customers, business partners and employees. Again, the focus will be on the three strategic global topics of energy, food and urban living. Events will range from employee jamming sessions which will challenge staff across all levels to come up with innovative solutions to societal issues, to participation in leading national science festivals and competitions.

BASF’s global and local anniversary programme is envisaged as a virtual labo- ratory – the ‘Creator Space™ programme’, in which it will try out new ways of working together over the next year and beyond – within BASF and with other stake- holders i.e. customers, scientists, and other communities. The three anniversary topics posted focus on urban living, energy, and food. These ideas and solutions from the virtual discussions are then fed back into other collaborative and co-creative anniversary activities such as Creator Space Tour, which

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Petra Bezuidenhout (BASF head of communications), Prof. Werner Olivier (NMMU) & Laurent Tainturier (BASF senior vice president EUE-CIS, Middle East & Africa).

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