The Auticon GmbH (proper spelling: Auticon ) is an IT - service company , founded in 2011 in Berlin . It is considered the first company in Germany to exclusively use people in the autism spectrum as IT consultants. In this context, the company sees itself as belonging to the social enterprise . The main areas of activity are: Testing & Quality Management, Transformation & Migration, Data & Business Intelligence, Security & Deep Web Analysis, Compliance & Reporting. Dirk Müller-Remus and Kurt Schöffer were the managing directors until mid-2016. Since then Kurt Schöffer has been the sole managing director and the company's headquarters are in Munich .
The company currently employs around 200 people, more than 150 of whom are in the autism spectrum (as of February 2019). In addition to the previous main branch in Berlin and the new main branch in Munich, Auticon has other locations in the metropolitan areas of Düsseldorf , Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart and Hamburg and, since the beginning of 2016, in England (London) and France (Paris).
The company was founded in November 2011 by Dirk Müller-Remus, himself the father of an autistic child, with the support of the Munich-based Ananda Social Venture Fund. Comparable companies abroad, in particular the Belgian company Passwerk, served as a model .
concept
The company uses specific skills and characteristics that many people on the autism spectrum have as strengths in working on suitable tasks. This includes strong logical thinking, a good understanding of details and the ability to concentrate on long-term work. The aptitude of such people lies primarily in quality assurance, especially for testing and optimizing software. The company employs integration assistants (called job coaches ) whose tasks are to act as the interface between the autistic employees and the customers and to support them in workplace design and communication. After being employed as a consultant, remuneration is based on market conditions. Part-time employment is possible and supported.
The concept is recognized beyond the region.
Awards
2012: KfW Founder's Champion Award, State Winner Berlin.
2013: German IQ Prize for the recruitment of highly gifted people among the first IT consultants and for Müller-Remus' contribution to “changing the image of autistic people as people with supposed weaknesses through a positive view”.
2014: Deichmann sponsorship award for integration for the use of autistic people, which represents added value and leads to measurably better work results in the teams. "An approach that is entirely in line with the sponsorship award and therefore convinced the jury," said Heinrich Deichmann, explaining the decision.
2015: New Work Award from XING : The award uses online voting to honor companies that organize work in an innovative way and are thus role models for other companies.
2015: The Germany - Land of Ideas initiative , together with Deutsche Bank, honors projects that provide solutions to the challenges of digital change.
2015: The founder of auticon GmbH, Dirk Müller-Remus, was awarded the special prize of the 2015 German Founder Prize.
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