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Society and communities
We highly value the relationships we have forged with communities across Europe.
UniCredit Foundation
UniCredit & University
Partnership
UniCredit Foundation
Our mission: to contribute to the development of the communities in which we operate
UniCredit Foundation was established in 2003 with the aim of contributing to developing solidarity and philanthropy in the communities and territories where our Group operates, helping build their capacity by transferring financial resources and management skills.
Primary focus:
1. To serve as a center of expertise for philanthropic activities, offering advice and organizing activities for Group companies and their customers.
2. Supporting social inclusion: within its operational scope, UniCredit Foundation works to foster processes associated with social cohesion through social entrepreneurship, which is considered an effective tool for producing and delivering socially useful goods and services.
Most recently, the foundation has launched social inclusion projects in Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Hungary.
Initiatives for UniCredit employees
UniCredit Foundation promotes a culture of volunteering and giving to the community, which has inspired dedicated efforts from many of UniCredit's 160,000 employees.
Since 2003, UniCredit Foundation has organized an annual gift-matching program to augment donations made by groups of UniCredit employees to nonprofit organizations.
In 2011, we launched Your Choice, Your Project, an initiative in which employees vote for the national-level projects they believe are the most deserving of their support.
For more information on UniCredit Foundation's activities and projects, visit the www.unicreditfoundation.org website
UniCredit Universities
Established in 2009, the UniCredit & Universities Foundation supports studies and research in the fields of economics and finance through the provision of annual scholarships, fellowships and awards. In addition, the foundation organizes a range of academic initiatives for talented young European scholars - activities that distinguishes UniCredit & Universities from other such foundations. Through its support to academia and research, the foundation reflects the remarkable geographic and cultural diversity of UniCredit and its values.
The foundation primarily operates in three main areas:
Support for studies
Each year, UniCredit & Universities offers numerous scholarships in economics, banking and finance to enable the best students to pursue a master's degree or Ph.D. abroad. In 2011, the foundation also began offering grants to undergraduates, both for study programs and internships abroad.
Support for research
The foundation promotes several initiatives to support research by young European economists through annual competitions for research fellowships and grants.
These initiatives aim to encourage promising talents to return home to Europe while recognizing superior academic research and Ph.D. dissertations.
Other initiatives
UniCredit & Universities Foundation works with major European universities to organize workshops that serve as platforms for researchers and the members of its Scientific Committee to share their expertise with academic communities within UniCredit countries.
In July 2012, UniCredit & Universities signed a collaboration agreement with the Marco Fanno Association of Research Fellows. In this agreement, UniCredit & Universities pledged to continue the long and prestigious tradition of supporting the best students through payment of grants named after this illustrious economist.
To find out more about the activities and projects of UniCredit & Universities, visit its website:
www.unicreditanduniversities.eu/index.php/home.html
Further contact information:
UniCredit & Universities
Knight of Labor Ugo Foscolo Foundation
Piazza Gae Aulenti
UniCredit Tower - Torre A
20154 Milano, Italy
Tel. +39 02 8862 4339
email: unicreditanduniversities@unicredit.eu
Partnerships
Since 1998, we have supported the initiatives of the Sodalitas Foundation, which connect companies and nonprofit organizations together for the purpose of improving social cohesion across Italy.
Sodalitas works closely with companies to develop projects in Italy that promote corporate sustainability. It also helps nonprofit organizations develop stronger managerial capacities, supports the consolidation of relationships between academia and the business sector, and promotes partnerships among companies, nonprofit groups and educational and other institutions.
For more information, please visit www.sodalitas.it/
UniCredit is proud to be a partner of the Italian Forum for Sustainable Finance.
This nonprofit association's stated mission is to promote the culture of social responsibility in the practice of financial investments in Italy.
The London Benchmarking Group (LBG) is the internationally recognized standard for measuring corporate community investment.
More than 300 companies around the world use LBG's framework to measure, manage and report on the value and the achievements of the contributions they make.
For more information, please visit www.lbg-online.net/
UniCredit is pleased to be affiliated with the Politeia Research Center, a nonprofit organization based in Milan.
Founded in 1983, the center aims to promote research and public discussion on issues concerning the relationship between ethics and public choices. The center's research programs include political and moral theory, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, environmental ethics, bioethics, computer ethics, and science policy and law.
Since 2004, POLITEIA has organized the Forum on Business Ethics and CSR in a Global Economy in collaboration with the University of Milan and a Committee of several Italian companies and organizations.
The aim of the Forum is to give managers and experts in business ethics and CSR an opportunity to discuss emerging ethical issues in the global economic system.
The United Nations Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment and anti-corruption.
As a multi stakeholder initiative, it engages businesses, trade unions, civil society organizations, academia, international organizations and governments.
UniCredit is proud to endorse these principles and takes an active part in the initiative.
For more information, please visit https://www.unglobalcompact.org/
UniCredit is proud to be a member of Valore D, the first association of large companies formed in Italy to support female representation in top positions at major Italian companies. Its membership currently comprises 63 domestic and multinational companies.
For more information, please visit www.valored.it/en/