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.
Sergi Loughney, Chief Corporate Reputation and Communications Officer at Abertis and director of the Abertis Foundation, and Javier Martos, director of the Spanish UNICEF Committee, travelled to Buenos Aires (Argentina) to give a joint speech on the public-private child road safety partnership.
On 12th and 13th June, the International Child Road Safety Forum (FISEVI 2018), promoted by the Gonzalo Rodríguez Foundation in Uruguay, brought together national and international specialist, government authorities, educators, researchers, private businesses and NGOs to promote specific solutions from different areas of action to improve the management of child mobility worldwide.
The speech reminded the mixed audience that road traffic accidents are the main cause of death among school-age children. To reduce this world scourge, Abertis and UNICEF have launched a programme that will, among other activities, take doctors from the Guttmann Institute to Jamaica and the Brazil to give training and advisory sessions to local physicians. The aim is to help them implement more effective clinical-healthcare protocols in the treatment of spinal cord injuries caused by road traffic accidents.
The partnership between Abertis and UNICEF, which was announced in 2017, involves an annual investment of one million dollars over three years. It is the first global corporate contribution to the UNICEF programmes to prevent child injuries from road traffic accidents.
This is not the only international partnership in which Abertis is involved. The Group also also forms part of the “Connected Citizens” programme of the driving app Waze in seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, Italy and Puerto Rico). The fact that the employees of the Abertis Group’s toll roads share data means that improvements can be made for the road safety of drivers. Focusing on a more local scale, between 2015 and 2017 the mortality ratio on Abertis toll roads in Spain dropped by 22%, whereas the accident rate was down 9%.
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.
