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Annual Report 2010 Annual Report 2010 296 CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 2010 296. ANNUAL REPORT 2010 LISBON 2011 004. Contents 007 Board of Trustees of the Ib. Overseas Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 181 International Department Internal Audit Committee 191 Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre, Paris President’s Letter 008 197 Armenian Communities Department 209 United Kingdom Branch I. Activities Report 225 The Gulbenkian Development Aid Programme 013 Office of the President Ia. Portugal Ic. Transverse and Innovative Projects 242 Gulbenkian Próximo Futuro Charity /Next Future Programme 023 Health and Human 244 Gulbenkian Environment Programme Development Department 251 Gulbenkian Programme 029 Gulbenkian Human of Education for Culture – Descobrir Development Programme 254 New Interventions Art Id. Support Departments 043 The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum 264 Central Services Department 061 Music Department 267 Budget, Planning and 077 José de Azeredo Perdigão Control Department Modern Art Centre – CAM 271 Communication Department 099 Fine Arts Department Education II. Economic 113 Education and Scholarships Department and Financial Situation 135 Art Library Financial Statements 145 The Gulbenkian Portuguese Language Programme 277 Economic and Financial Situation 150 Gulbenkian Programme to Combat Failure 286 Consolidated Financial Statements at School and Early School Leaving 340 Auditors’ Reports Science 155 Science Department III. Internal Audit Committee 165 Gulbenkian Institute of Science 346 Report 170 Gulbenkian Advanced Medical 348 Opinion Training Programme 349 Heads of Department and 177 Interuniversity Programme for Scientific of the Gulbenkian Programmes Capacity Strengthening 351 Useful Information 004.005 Annual Report 2010 006. Board of Trustees Emílio Rui Vilar Mikhael Essayan President Honorary President Diogo de Lucena Isabel Maria de Almeida Mota Eduardo Marçal Grilo Eduardo Lourenço de Faria André Gonçalves Pereira Artur Santos Silva Teresa Pinto Basto Gouveia Martin Essayan Rui Esgaio Secretary to the Board of Trustees Internal Audit Committee Luís Morais Sarmento* Director-General for the Budget Maria Eugénia Melo de Almeida Pires** Director-General for the Budget José Nuno Rangel Cid Proença Director-General for Social Security Manuel Jacinto Nunes Member nominated by the Lisbon Science Academy António Valdemar (José Stone de Medeiros Tavares) Member nominated by the National Fine Arts Academy Manuel Maçaroco Candeias Member nominated by the Bank of Portugal to represent the banks and banking houses * Resigned from office on 30 April 2010 ** Took office on 30 April 2010 006.007 Annual Report 2010 President’s Letter Transparency and the rendering of accounts are the fundamental values upon which the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is built. For this very reason, ever since the very beginning – firstly with the President’s Reports and subsequently, under the current format, with the Annual Report and Accounts – we have periodically reported upon the multiple activities that we undertake and which, over the years, have expressed the priorities that we have adopted as our own. This is not some uncritical ritual that we perform as a result of a formal or legal obligation to which we are subjected. The publication of this report forms an essential part of the Foundation’s decision-making process since it allows us to carry out a continuous and ongoing assessment of both the scale and the impact of our interventions. In view of the extent of the problems that exist and the scarcity of philanthropic resources, the main risk involved in any of the interventions undertaken by an institution such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation results from a short-term temptation, or, in other words, from the option of immediately responding to the most evident needs without any concern about understanding their causes. Modern philanthropy does not seek to relieve the symptoms of problems, but rather to contribute to eliminating their causes and in this way helping to eradicate their effects. Only by undertaking a permanent analysis of these problems will we be able to envisage an approach that corresponds to the demands of the responsibilities deriving from our declared mission. We are aware of the special obligations that are beholden upon our Institution and so we think that information about the performance of our activities should be shared with all those who are legitimately interested in what we do. In the following pages, readers of the Annual Report and Accounts will find detailed information about everything that, throughout the course of the year, has represented the fruits of our labours. Our aim is to provide a complete report about our activities, which allows us not only to understand the different variables of our interventions in these areas, but also to project and plan their future evolution. In the context that I have already mentioned – that of permanently validating the premises on which our different activities are based – the Foundation seeks to find innovative formulas for approaching the problems with which we are faced on a daily basis. The transnational nature of many of these problems has raised the question of the lesser effectiveness of isolated actions and underlined the advantage of setting up partnerships, as well as the integration of the Foundation in networks of philanthropy, in order to gain the benefits of scale and to increase the impact of our interventions. By acting in association with different actors from both the public and private sectors, 008. in Portugal and abroad, we have actively contributed to the renewal not only of the commitment arising from the Foundation’s international genesis, but also of its vocation to assume the role of a facilitator and leader in tackling the most pressing issues facing our contemporary society. An example of this approach and of the importance that, at the Foundation, we give to the question of learning and to incentivising our constant improvement as an institution can be seen in the line of action that we created in 2010 with the aim of supporting projects or programmes that seek to contribute to finding answers to complex problems, involving various countries in areas in which the Foundation is well positioned to intervene with a significant impact and, simultaneously, to contribute towards increasing our skills and capacities in these areas. This is a challenge that has been issued to the Foundation’s departments and programmes, to which they can contribute with projects that adhere to the following set of criteria: they must be strategic, or, in other words, they must propose an intervention in areas in which there are significant needs; they must be transverse or multidisciplinary; they must be transnational, or, in other words, they must involve activities that are undertaken in two or more countries, depending on coordinated action or the sharing of practices between the countries involved; they must be developed in partnership, or, in other words, they must involve work that is undertaken jointly with at least one other foundation or another organisation of major importance; and, finally, they must be distributive, or, in other words, all or part of the project must be guaranteed by outside entities. At a time of great uncertainty and volatility, another of our concerns is to defend the Foundation’s heritage, guaranteeing both the independence and continuity of the Institution. As far as the value of its property and assets is concerned, the Foundation has continued the recovery that began in 2009. We have managed to achieve a full return of roughly 8% on our investments, including Partex Oil and Gas. As at 31 December 2010, the Foundation’s total assets amounted to 2,930 million euros, which represents an increase of 4.6% in comparison with 2009. Aware of the fact that philanthropy is a continuous challenge without any guarantees of immediate success, we develop all our activities according to the fundamental values of openness, transparency, collaboration, innovation and assessment, in a constant search for results. We hope that the contents of this report reflect these values. Emílio Rui Vilar President of the Board of Trustees 008.009 Annual Report 2010 I. Activities Report In keeping with our customary procedures, the following is a summary of activities – grants, subsidies, scholarships and direct initiatives – for the year 2010. The criterion used for the presentation involves firstly publishing the reports of those departments and programmes whose activities are carried out above all in Portugal, which are ordered according to the Foundation’s four main objects of Charity, Arts, Education and Science. These are followed by the reports of the international departments and overseas branches. After this comes a chapter that groups together the transverse programmes and “New Interventions”, this latter section reporting on the innovative projects that meet at least two of the following requirements: they are transverse projects cutting across the Foundation’s different statutory aims, take place in more than one country, are developed in the form of a partnership, and involve either distributive activities or activities designed for the funding of other institutions from the non-profit sector. Finally, the chapter describing the activities of the support departments is presented. Lisbon, 5 May 2011 Gulbenkian Prize Award Ceremony. The International Prize being awarded to Beth Parke, Society of Environmental Journalists (USA). 012. Office
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