BNP Paribas just created the BNP Paribas Portugal Foundation, its 14th foundation worldwide, celebrating the bank's 40th year in Portugal. This foundation will pull all the company's charity work in the country together towards a single goal: to help society grow in a way that includes everyone and protects the environment.
This year, the foundation is putting €1.5 million into research projects that tackle climate change and how it affects sea life. They picked these two projects out of 163 suggestions from all over the world:
- Ocean Path – Gulf of Guinea: This project will create a safe path for blue sharks, mako sharks, and whales by using 3D tech to follow where they go.
- Show-IT – Purple Spotted Shark: This one looks at how ocean warming messes with how young purple spotted sharks grow, which will help us protect marine areas.
The foundation will mainly focus on these three things:
- Helping People: Getting young people, women, and migrants into jobs and making sure they're included in society.
- Saving Nature: Working on keeping the Atlantic Ocean and its creatures safe.
- Arts and Culture: Helping artists who don't get enough attention and making sure everyone can enjoy cultural events.
Luciana Peres, who heads the BNP Paribas Portugal Foundation, said they want to work with workers, customers, schools, and partners for a long time to make a real difference in society, the environment, and the arts. The foundation's saying, Empowering those who act! shows they're all about working together, sharing what they know, and making big changes.
Anne Pointet, who is in charge of company involvement at BNP Paribas Group, said this foundation fits with what the whole group has been doing charity-wise for years. Isabelle Giordano pointed out that Portugal is super important in the BNP Paribas foundation network.
The foundation will use what the main BNP Paribas Foundation and local charity programs have learned to get projects going from 2026–2028. These projects will mix helping people, saving sea life, and bringing culture back to life.
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