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.
As youngsters, we rarely think that the worst thing about getting old is loneliness. This is a harsh reality for many elderly people -especially women- who daren’t leave their homes. Getting into a left on their own, going downstairs, crossing the street... These are all architectural barriers and impossible walls to cross.
In 2014, the management at the Casal de la Gent Gran (Senior Citizens’ Centre) in the district of Trinitat Vella in Barcelona realised as such. The Catalan Department for Labour, Social Affairs and Family, the Catalan Down Syndrome Foundation (FCSD) and the Abertis Foundation all came up with a pilot experience that became a great success.
Two intellectually disabled youngsters received training by the FCSD so that they could accompany the beneficiaries of the programme at the Centre. This enables the elderly to come out of isolation and relate with others in the same situation while being provided with access to a wide variety of activities and workshops to fill their days with entertainment: leisure, training, artistic, sports, and craft activities and an insight into new technologies… The youngsters appointed by the Abertis Foundation are incorporated into work, thus boosting their self-confidence. The work of the Cooperants de la Gent Gran (Senior Citizen Assistants) is supervised by professionals from the FCSD.
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.
