FUNDACION EDPInitiatives

EDP SOLIDARITYis an initiative that aims to improve the quality of life and the integration of the most deprived.

The “Points” is a totally free programme rewarding EDP customers with a series of points.

Every year, since 1981, this renowned institution has awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards (now entitled Princess of Asturias Awards).

The Campus welcomes more than 400 young people from all over the world.

The EDP Foundation has sponsored the opening ceremony of the 2015 International Festival of Santander (FIS).

This classical music festival started in 1939 and has become the oldest music festival in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe.

With the collaboration of Cáritas and the Red Cross, the initiative aims to increase the safety, welfare and energy efficiency of the most deprived families.

As is customary, the EDP Foundation sponsored different fun runs in Asturias.

The EDP Foundation has signed agreements with the Universities of the Autonomous Regions of the Principality of Asturias, the Basque Country, Cantabria, Murcia and Madrid, thanks to which 300 students carry out work experience at different EDP work centres.

For the last 17 years, the EDP Foundation has sponsored, the Asturian Sailing Week.

The scholarship is open to individuals and groups of artists from or resident in Spain, with no age limit

The photography exhibition to mark the EFE Agency's 75th anniversary was held at the Gran Vía bilbaína exhibition centre. 

The Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation was established in 2014 to drive major progress in research in the biomedicine field.

Every year the EDP Foundation organises an event to hand out indigenous cherry saplings to young artists who visit their facilities.

This initiative seeks to foster the entrepreneur culture among young upper secondary and vocational training students by means of an e-learning platform.

On Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May, the Kursaal Palace in Donostia-San Sebastian hosted the concert by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, sponsored by the EDP Foundation, and was lit up by the latter's logo.

As is customary, the EDP Foundation sponsored different sports events.

DIPC is an organisation which promotes scientific research and technological development activities in the fields of basic and applied physics.

The Cantabria Forum is an important opportunity for the business community to meet and gain a first-hand insight into the key issues for their businesses.

The purpose of this institution is to organise activities and concerts related to the Opera and, which includes organising an annual opera season.

The Women's Race takes place in 8 cities in Spain and its objective is to raise funds for research on breast cancer.

It is one of the leading orchestras in the Spanish symphony scene.

The Family Race is a recreational event which encompasses basic elements such as sport, health and family.

The purpose of this institution is to organise activities and concerts related to the Opera.

Artium is, as a museum and cultural activities centre, a benchmark for its dissemination and heritage work in the area of contemporary creation, and EDP is an active member of its Board.

For many years now, the EDP Foundation has been working with different environmental associations.

EDPR has a cooperation agreement in place with the Castilla y León Natural Heritage Foundation to organise different initiatives in the environmental field in the autonomous community.

As part of the EDP "Parte de Nosotros Ambiental" ["It’s Up to Us"] global campaign, a environmental volunteering day in Spain was held and 115 volunteers, including employees, family and friends, took part.

The EDP volunteering programme is organised in all the companies of the Group.

SED (Solidarity, Education and Development) is a non-profit Development Non-Governmental Organisation working in Spain, whose fundamental aim is solidarity with the most underprivileged.

Along with other Portuguese entities and companies, EDPR sponsored the Madrid Fado Festival in June. The event paid tribute to the most authentic Portuguese cultural expression, whose III festival was held in the Spanish capital.

Green Education is an EDPR programme which started in 2010 that provides study grants.

Every year, the thermal and hydroelectric power plants play host to a number of primary and secondary schoolchildren.

The nationally and internationally renowned congress was held for the 15th time this year.

FUNSEAN is a non-profit institution whose main objective is to work in the area of environmental and energy sustainability.

Sponsorship of and help with festivals held in the three provinces of the Basque Country to support the Basque School.

It was created in April 1993 under the aegis of its conductor, José Fernández Avello.

Yet again this year, and with Basque Cycling Foundation – EDP Foundation backing, the Cycling Festival in Derio was held to encourage young people to use bicycles as a means of transport and for fun, and enjoy a day out with the family.

The objective of the Foundation is: to showcase the range of cultural activities of Donostia-San Sebastián.

The EDP Foundation collaborates in the organisation of the event.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is one of the iconic buildings of the third millennium and is associated to concepts of contemporariness, technology, avant-garde and design.

The EDP Foundation has signed collaboration agreements with various town councils to plant native trees.

The Asturias Bear Foundation (FOA) is a non-profit private cultural entity.

The Migres Foundation is a not-for-profit private entity that fosters research on the phenomenon of bird migration and organise activities aimed at sustainable development.

EDPR marked World Wind Day with an open day at the Rabosera wind farms.

The Historical Demographic Association (ADEH) is a scientific society, working in Spain and Portugal, which since 1983 has worked on promoting the study and knowledge of the population of the present and past from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This programme which seeks to disseminate sustainability in schools has been run in the Autonomous regions of the Principality of Asturias, the Basque Country, Cantabria, Murcia, Madrid and Castilla La Mancha.

The EDP University Challenge is a programme introduced by EDPR in Spain 2009. Its objective is to contribute to developing academic excellence in students on degree, post-graduate and PhD students (1st and 2nd cycle of the Bologna process).

On 21 July 2014, the EDP Corporate Volunteering Programme unveiled its latest initiative, "Solidarity Computers” [Ordenadores Solidarios], which is up and running in EDP Spain and EDP Renewables.