BORUSSIA DORTMUNDGmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Dortmund The episode poignantly demonstrates Borussia been suspended for a year due to the COVID-19 Dortmund's commitment to important social issues pandemic. by championing projects that promote a remembrance culture and historical and political In addition to being a socially responsible club, education. This also includes the club's active role Borussia Dortmund also takes its environmental in the "Changing the Chants" project, which is funded responsibility seriously. With this in mind, the club by the European Union. Over the past two years, formed additional cross-disciplinary project groups Borussia Dortmund has worked with Feyenoord that will increasingly tackle the issues related to the Rotterdam, Fare Network and the Anne Frank use of resources in match operations and mobility. In House to devise and strengthen strategies that cooperation with Dortmund's municipal utilities football clubs can use to educate fans about authority (DSW21), BVB is expanding its KombiTicket anti-Semitic behaviour in stadiums. Changing the combined match/transport ticket for both individual Chants revolves around two separate educational matches and season tickets. They will now cover the programmes for football fans run by Borussia entire state of North Rhine-Westphalia, thereby Dortmund and Feyenoord. The project's closing increasing the use of public transport and helping to meeting is planned for September 2021. cut CO2 emissions. The tickets had previously only been valid within the VRR transport authority region. This year will see BVB restart the historical and Borussia Dortmund is also helping make employees' political educational trips that it has run for fans daily commute more environmentally friendly by since 2008 and for employees since 2011. They had offering the chance to lease a bicycle via BVB on a subsidised basis. 52
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