Abertis, with culture worldwide
23 September 2019
The Abertis Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Plan establishes the involvement of the Group in the communities where it carries out its business.
The Abertis Group acted as host once again at the 2nd Road Planet meeting held in Barcelona on 9th April. The meeting was organised by Prisma Publicaciones (Planeta group), in collaboration with Ponle Freno (Atresmedia), and acted as a reference for companies and institutions committed to road safety. On this occasion, the meeting focused on the risk factors for the accident rate.
The director of the Abertis Foundation began the welcome speeches by thanking all those present for their attendance. Sergi Loughney referred to the activities undertaken by our Group to reduce the accident rate and thoroughly explained two of them: he gave a preview of the El Apagón (#SumaTuLuz) (The blackout) campaign and spoke of the agreement between Abertis, the Guttmann Institute and Unicef to lower death rates worldwide among children on their way to school.
Another of the experts from our Group to take part in the meeting was the general director for the subsidiary Autopistas, Anna Bonet. She spoke of the goal of Zero Victims sought by the operator and referred to the research and analysis work performed by the company’s Road Safety Centre.
The four main risk factors in accident rates are distraction, drowsiness and tiredness, unsuitable speed, and the use of drugs and alcohol before driving. In total, there were 1,067 fatal accidents on inter-urban roads in 2017, which accounts for 3% more deaths (1,200) than the previous year. Despite these undesirable figures, Spain is the fifth lowest country in the European Union in terms of fatal accidents, as expert Pere Navarro explained, with a ratio of (only) 39 victims for every million inhabitants, below members such as Germany, France or Finland. Our country is also the most highly valued for its inter-urban road networks.
23 September 2019
The Abertis Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Plan establishes the involvement of the Group in the communities where it carries out its business.
23 September 2019
The exhibition “Miró: la experiencia de mirar” (Miró: the experience of looking)was held at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 25th November 2017 to 25th February 2018.
23 September 2019
In the previous summary we indicated that the artist Joan Miró maintained a close link with the avant-garde scene in Paris from his youth until a ripe old age. The exhibition sponsored by Abertis at the Grand Palais enabled the Catalan painter to return to the French capital.
23 September 2019
In February 1917, Europe was immersed in the 1st World War. Pablo Picasso was 36 years old then, but was already a great artist who had started the Cubism revolution.
