2008 Annual Report ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects The soul of ”la Caixa”

INDEX

Governing Bodies of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 4 Introduction 6 Social programmes 8 Introduction 10 Struggle against Poverty and Social Exclusion 14 Caring for the Elderly 18 Education-play Spaces for Children in a Vulnerable Situation 20 Economic, Social and Health Aid to Poor Countries 21 Promotion of the Active Role of Young People 22 Integrated Care for the Very Ill 23 MicroBank, the Social Bank of ”la Caixa” 24 Environment and Science Programmes 26 Introduction 28 Preservation of Marine and Land Natural Spaces and Raising of Environmental Awareness 30 CosmoCaixa Barcelona 32 CosmoCaixa Madrid 33 Cultural programmes 34 Introduction 36 CaixaForum Barcelona 37 CaixaForum Madrid 38 CaixaForum Palma 39 CaixaForum Lleida, Tarragona and Sala Girona 40 Cultural Activities outside the Centres 41 Education and Research Programmes 44 Introduction 46 Scholarships 47 Details of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 2008 50 ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects Budget 52 Directory of the ”la Caixa” Foundation 53 Governing Bodies of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects on 31 December 2008

Welfare Projects Committee

Chairman Isidro Fainé

Committee Members Salvador Gabarró Jorge Mercader Manuel Raventós Marta Domènech Javier Godó Inmaculada Juan Executive Officers Justo B. Novella Magín Pallarès President and Chief Executive Officer of ”la Caixa” Secretary (non-member) Juan María Nin Alejandro García-Bragado Executive President of Social Deputy Secretary (non-member) and Cultural Outreach Projects Óscar Calderón Jaime Lanaspa

Board of the ”la Caixa” Foundation

Chairman Juan José López President and Chief Executive Officer Isidro Fainé Montserrat López Jaime Lanaspa Amparo Moraleda Deputy Chairmen Miguel Noguer Secretary (non-member) Alejandro García-Bragado Ricardo Fornesa (First Deputy Chairman) Justo B. Novella Salvador Gabarró Vicenç Oller Deputy Secretary (non-member) Jorge Mercader Magín Pallarès Óscar Calderón Juan María Nin Manuel Raventós

Leopoldo Rodés *Josep Sala: from 29 January 2009 Board Members Luis Rojas Ramon Balagueró Josep Sala* Mª Amparo Camarasa Francisco Tutzó José F. de Conrado José Vilarasau (Honorary Chairman) Marta Domènech Nuria Esther Villalba Manuel García Josep Francesc Zaragozà Javier Godó Inmaculada Juan Jaime Lanaspa

2008 Annual Report ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 4 Management of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects

Chairman Isidro Fainé

Executive Director Jaime Lanaspa

CEO of the Accessible Housing Programme Jaume Cabré

Director of the Fellowship and Social Studies Area Rosa Maria Molins

Management of the ”la Caixa” Foundation

Chairman Director of Social Management Assistant Director of Environment Isidro Fainé H.R.H the Infanta Cristina and Science Francisco Javier Bertolín Managing Director Director of Territorial Action Jaime Lanaspa Rafael Chueca Assistant Director of Centre Management Assistant Managing Director Director of Culture José Ollé Elisa Durán Ignasi Miró

Secretary General Director of Production Luis Reverter Enric Sagrera

Deputy Secretary General Director of Social Integration Esther Planas Marc Simón

Deputy Secretary General Director of Environment and Albert Sòria Science Jorge Wagensberg Director of Communication Francisco Javier Zuloaga

2008 Annual Report ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 5 Introduction

WELFARE PROJECTS TO HELP PEOPLE

Isidro Fainé Chairman of ”la Caixa”

2008 was marked by global economic uncertainty, alongside increasing concern regarding social issues. For many people, combating social exclusion, supporting the needy and promoting participation in charities are priority issues fro many people. The ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects have taken on a bigger role.In recent years, our Institution has set a global programme in motion to respond to society’s most pressing problems. It has done so out of a conviction that the transformations of the contemporary world demand new models for action that are based on experience (with professional management), entail participation and are dynamic.

In recent years, the ”la Caixa” Welfare Project has launched new programmes to fi ght against and prevent the spread of child poverty; to foster the integration of people at risk of exclusion into the job market as a means of helping them to fi nd jobs; to favour access to housing; and to promote microloans through a specialised bank that grants people with limited resources access to loans and enables them to set up small businesses. Added to this range of new proposals are assistance programmes geared towards preventing dependency and seeing to the needs of persons in advanced stages of disease, the CiberCaixa hospital programmes for children with long hospital stays, and CiberCaixa’s Quedamos después de clase (“Let’s Meet after Class”) programme to improve the social lives of children after school and during the holidays. A further goal our activity has been to create new social awareness through programmes aimed at promoting an active role among youths and preventing drug abuse, volunteer programmes, and programmes active in the fi eld of international cooperation. The aim of all these programmes is to offer people opportunities so they can move ahead and build their future. They address the most immediate problems, ones that affect our daily lives, with enterprising spirit and a direct, practical focus.

Experience is a fundamental value. Since its creation, ”la Caixa” has concerned itself with social issues. One of our programmes for the elderly was among the fi rst to be promoted by a private institution in Spain. The fellowship programme for expanding study abroad is a European benchmark. The management experience gained from these programmes is leveraged to set in motion new initiatives. One novelty in recent years was the creation of the Corporate Volunteers Programme, whereby employees of ”la Caixa” can place their knowledge at the disposal of social welfare organisations and charity projects. All the activities of the ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects are carried out following professional criteria. This rigorous approach, which seeks maximum effi ciency, comes hand-in-hand with the generous help of the entire team: managers of the ”la Caixa” Foundation, social welfare organisations, specialists in each fi eld, and many others who give selfl essly.

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The ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects work with public administrations, businesses, non-profi t organisations, as well as with new associations, such as immigrant associations or groups that work with people affl icted by serious illness. The idea is to be close to people and work as a network. One has to know people’s needs, seek out the best dialogue partners, and act using the most effi cient means. Welfare Projects programmes respond to problems that are on the table and act proactively by opening up new prevention channels. Close collaboration with offi cial bodies allows the programmes to be rolled out more smoothly and helps avoid duplicated efforts, all of which is in the best interests of equal opportunity and social integration.

The ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects are also active in education, culture, and science. Fellowship programmes have been greatly expanded in recent years. In addition to grants for postgraduate studies abroad, new fellowship programmes have been created for masters degrees at Spanish universities and traineeships in journalism. In 2008, fellowships were set up for PhD studies in rapidly expanding fi eld of biomedicine. The objective: to have an increasingly skilled team of professionals with better knowledge of the world.

Our vision is to reach people in order to make knowledge, art, music and ideas more accessible to people. We want to tear down the wall that even today separates many people from museums and concert halls. With this goal in mind, ”la Caixa” created a new model of a social and cultural centre, the CaixaForum, whose purpose is to promote the value of culture as an element of social integration and, with the aid of architecture, to provide inviting spaces that can serve as meeting points. The ”la Caixa” Foundation social and cultural centres offer visitors a wide variety of activities: workshops and lectures on current affairs, exhibitions, concerts, conferences and activities for schools and the family.

A visit to CosmoCaixa science and environment museums and travelling exhibitions provide an opportunity for students, their teachers and relatives to learn and be entertained by science and to become aware of the need to preserve the environment. Communication-based museum studies make it possible to experience science fi rsthand. The scientifi c activities of the ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects tie in global problems and provide platforms for debating issues like biodiversity, man’s relationship to the world around him and his role in the universe. Environmental programmes foster direct contact with reality, such as the project for preserving land and marine habitats, which gives work to persons at risk of social exclusion; or ”la Caixa” a favor del mar (“In favour of the sea”), which concerns applied research on the preservation of marine ecosystems.

The results of this activity can be seen throughout the pages of this report, which is a testimony to a sustained effort that is continuously renovated with fresh inspiration and ideas. On behalf of "la Caixa" Social and Cultural Outreach Projects I would like to thank all our collaborators for their efforts in making these programmes possible, and to encourage them to continue working throughout 2009 on our solidarity project.

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Introduction Struggle against Poverty and Social Exclusion CaixaProinfancia Scholarships for Prisoners Incorpora Employment Programme Caring for the Elderly Elderly People Prevention of Dependence Education-play Spaces for Children in a Vulnerable Situation Hospital CiberCaixa CiberCaixa Let’s Meet after Class! Economic, Social and Health Aid to Poor Countries International Cooperation Child Vaccination Promotion of the Active Role of Young People Young People with Values Let’s Talk about Drugs Integrated Care for the Very Ill Integrated Care for the Very Ill and their Families MicroBank, the Social Bank of ”la Caixa” MicroBank

Social programmes

Social programmes

Since its foundation, ”la Caixa” has Struggle against Poverty and for Prisoners, which awards been an entity committed to peoples’ Financial and Social Exclusion scholarships for technical training in needs. Responding to peoples’ needs trades that are needed on the labour is the central theme of the activities it ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects has market to prisoners at the second and develops through its Welfare Projects, developed various programmes to third levels of their sentences. which in 2008 allocated 297 million tackle poverty and the risk of social and euros to its social programmes. This fi nancial exclusion of specifi c, especially Financial exclusion is a problem that figure is 16% up on 2007 and accounts vulnerable groups. CaixaProinfancia affects enterprising people from groups for 64% of the total budget of Welfare is aimed at families with children that with diffi culties in gaining access to Projects. are vulnerable or at risk of exclusion. It traditional credit. If no solution is wants to provide children with a social found, it can also lead to situations of The main beneficiaries of the initiatives and educational kick-start that will open marginalisation and exclusion. MicroBank, undertaken throughout Spain during doors in the future. the social bank of ”la Caixa”, granted 2008 were the most vulnerable groups 20,641 microloans in 2008 to fi nance self- in society, such as children living in The Incorpora employment programme employment projects of people from these poverty, elderly people, dependent provides opportunities in the world of groups. During 2008 MicroBank became people, young persons at risk, work for socially fragile groups, such as established as an important community immigrants, the disabled and the very ill. immigrants, the disabled, the long-term resource. unemployed, women who are victims of The programmes of ”la Caixa” domestic violence, ex-prisoners, young In 2008, the fi rst stage of the Accessible Welfare Projects act on society in two people looking for their fi rst job or Housing programme was completed. complementary ways. First, it promotes persons over 45. A network of 297 job This promotes rental housing for people its own programmes aimed at those developers act as intermediaries between under 35 and over 65, the sectors sections of society that require most companies and these groups. with most diffi culties in entering the assistance. Expert advice identifies property market. All the housing units these needs and a model of action To contribute to the social and job are in provincial capitals, metropolitan is drawn up to guarantee that the reintegration of the prison population, a areas or other towns with a lack of programme is actually carried out. To group at high risk of social exclusion, is this kind of housing. In this fi rst phase, ensure that programmes reach the end the aim of the programme Scholarships 1,084 fl ats were delivered in various beneficiary, public tenders are opened to involve third-sector entities and active collaboration from government bodies is sought. Second, it works with projects that start off in the third sector. To guarantee maximum objectivity, an external tribunal is in charge of evaluating and choosing which ones. In all cases, links are created with the appropriate government bodies to ensure the validity and continuity of the programmes and that they properly complement public policy.

The main areas of action in 2008 were: contributing to new needs, supporting non-profit entities, encouraging volunteer work, raising the awareness of people on the problems of today’s world and, in short, increasing social cohesion in order to construct a better society. ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects allocated over 49 million euros to the CaixaProinfancia programme

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developments in Madrid, Barcelona, Support for Children material for working on prevention in Cornellà de Llobregat, El Vendrell, Mollet and Young People schools, a training campaign for health del Vallès, Palau-Solità i Plegamans, professionals and a family guidance Sentmenat, Sitges, Tordera, Vic and The ”la Caixa” Foundation also devoted phone-line. Vilanova i la Geltrú. 2008 also saw the attention and resources to children and start of the construction of 998 housing young people. The programme Young Caring for and Serving units in the second phase in Málaga, People with Values recognises the the Most Vulnerable Sevilla, Madrid, Girona, Hospitalet de importance of young people in the Llobregat, Salou, Sitges, Valencia and construction of society and fosters in One of the main new projects of Arrasate-Mondragón. Accords were also this group ethical values, responsible ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects in 2008 signed with several town councils for the living in harmony and the value of their was the creation of the programme building of 3,000 more fl ats. participation in social questions. Integrated Care for Very Ill People, which promotes new lines of action As well as these programmes, the CiberCaixa Let’s Meet after Class!, in the area of palliative care. The ”la Caixa” Foundation contributed to a programme set up in 2007, offers programme provides, through thirty projects of third-sector entities through education-play spaces in after-school multi-disciplinary teams, emotional the tender processes of Social and Job hours and holidays for children with support for patients and their families, Inclusion of Disabled People, which social diffi culties. During 2008, the treatment of bereavement and support distributed 4 million euros between 277 number of CiberCaixa grew to 32 and for medical teams. projects; Struggle against Poverty 2,211 children used its resources. and Social Exclusion, which provided The programme Prevention of 4.3 million euros for 213 projects; and One of the problems that most Dependence also focused on the needs Support for Residential Resources for concerns today’s society in relation of a vulnerable group. Its objectives Social Integration, an initiative that to young people is the prevention of are to improve the quality of life of aims to establish short-term housing for drug consumption. The Let’s Talk dependent people and to support and people plunged suddenly into poverty, about Drugs programme tackles this train their carers. for which 3.8 million euros was shared simply through a campaign to raise among 91 projects. awareness in families. It has a touring Since it was founded, Welfare Projects exhibition on the question, educational has been involved with a group that has a major weight in the community, elderly people, who fi nd in the Elderly People programme the chance to develop an active role in society, improve their personal autonomy and enjoy a healthy old age.

It also pays attention to vulnerable children through its 57 Hospital CiberCaixa, set up in children’s hospitals all round Spain. What is involved are education-play spaces for children in hospital and their families, in order to minimize the emotional impact of a long stay in hospital and the consequences of being off school.

The Young People with Values programme promotes young people’s participation in society and ethical values

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International Solidarity four million euros for the vaccination of and to promote activities that favour living children under fi ve years old. ”la Caixa” together in harmony. This programme is The programme International set up and led the Business Alliance for developed throughout the state through Cooperation of Welfare Projects Child Vaccination, which promotes and a network of intercultural mediators contributes to the development of the most channels the donations of the Spanish to facilitate dialogue between the host vulnerable groups in countries in Africa, companies that work with the GAVI community and new arrivals, so favouring Asia and Latin America, by supporting Alliance, in the hope of achieving the mutual understanding and social innovative, high-quality international fourth Millennium Development Goal: cohesion. Mediation serves for individuals projects for social justice that encourage to reduce by two-thirds child mortality and groups of all cultures, as well as for local participation. It also promotes training between 1990 and 2015. the professionals working in multicultural causes for social activists in solidarity and contexts. The 114 mediators who make humanitarian action. Through awareness- Fostering Responsible Social up this network made 10,742 individual raising activities, with the Millennium Living in Harmony interventions and took 50,817 general Development Goals of the United Nations actions to raise awareness of the question. as reference, the programme inspires a Social transformations may affect In the area of health, this intercultural culture of solidarity, peace and respect. the balance and harmony of society. mediation network was strengthened Immigration to Spain has grown markedly by specifi c training for professionals in In line with its commitment to in recent years. It has become a day- mediation and the recruitment of 30 international cooperation, in 2008 to-day reality that has transformed the more mediators. Welfare Projects also Welfare Projects set up the Child country into a multicultural society. This has information publications that have Vaccination programme jointly with is why ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects set been widely distributed in the languages the GAVI Alliance – the fi rst partnership up its Immigration programme, whose of the main groups of immigrants in the world between the private and aim is to assist the integration of new (Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, public sectors to fi ght child mortality residents (with advice on day-to-day Russian, Rumanian, English and Urdu): in developing countries. It allocated problems, work, legal rights and leisure) the information manual called What is this country like? Useful information for immigrant persons and new residents and the Directory of organisations of immigrants in Spain.

Prevention of violence is the aim of the programme Violence: Zero Tolerance, which includes a touring exhibition to stimulate refl ection and involvement in the struggle against violence within the family, an educational programme for schools and a psychological and social support programme for mistreated women and their children. The exhibition was put on in 6 places and received a total of 32,917 visits.

The Social Studies collection aims to contribute to the analysis, discussion and publicising of themes of general interest through the publication of major studies in the fi eld of the social sciences. Since it was set up in 1999, 24 titles have been published, tackling questions such as immigration, drug dependency, poverty, social exclusion and the family. 2008 saw The Child Vaccination programme combats child mortality in low-income countries the presentation of Food, Consumption

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and Health, which gives an analysis of the educational requirements and projects promotes the integration into work of various food scenarios that arouse most to improve the quality of life of persons groups in a situation of risk and also concern at present. with physical or mental health problems. contributes values of diversity, cohesion In 2008, 4 million euros were allocated and solidarity to the company. Improvement in living in harmony was to 257 projects. also sought through the organisation of It should also be mentioned that Welfare Cultural Actions with Social Impact, Promotion of the Corporate Social Projects provided the infrastructure for which aspires to strengthen the role of Responsibility of Companies setting up a Spanish business alliance culture as an instrument of cohesion. This for child vaccination. This allows other had a budget of 0.7 million euros and 58 ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects is conscious companies to include international projects were supported. of the importance of companies in social cooperation as a value in their social integration. Following the principles of responsibility strategy. Volunteer Work and Social Assistance corporate social responsibility, some of its programmes combine the natural Finally, companies were offered Volunteer work contributes to reducing economic objectives of companies with publications on managing volunteer the negative effects of poverty, marginality social needs. In this respect, the Incorpora work, to enable them to encourage their and exclusion and contributes great programme should be highlighted: it employees to do socially useful work. benefi ts to society. The Volunteer programme of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects encourages voluntary work and helps develop the cultural, environmental and social entities that work with volunteers. At present, there are 45 associations of ”la Caixa” volunteers, consisting of employees, people who took early retirement and retired people from our entity, who conduct a broad range of activities regularly or on a one-off basis: caring for people in need; leisure activities with people at risk of social exclusion; educational activities to integrate people; work with social entities; environmental actions; Christmas campaigns; and international volunteer work. These 45 associations increased in 2008 the number of volunteers registered. There are now 2,538, 10% of the staff of ”la Caixa”. To encourage this solidarity movement, Welfare Projects publishes books on volunteer management and offers assistance to non-profi t projects of private entities to promote and manage volunteers. Welfare Projects allocated 3 million euros to this fi eld, supporting 205 projects.

Apart from various lines of social help that have already been dealt with in this report, ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects also organised Social Action Projects to encourage innovative projects that The 45 volunteer associations of ”la Caixa” work on numerous initiatives respond to today’s varying social and

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Struggle against Poverty and Social Exclusion

The most fragile and unprotected • In 2008, ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects CaixaProinfancia sectors of society are the priority of spent over 49 million euros on the ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects. In 2008 CaixaProinfancia programme, which Defi nition it developed programmes, started in it began in 2007 to help eradicate child Fund for social and educational previous years, to give an effi cient, poverty, to assist the processes of social assistance, managed by social entities rapid and general response to the integration of children and their families and aimed at families with children living needs of groups at risk of exclusion who are vulnerable and/or at risk of in poverty, to help them overcome their because of their social or economic exclusion and to raise awareness in diffi culties and opt for a more hopeful conditions. society. future. Action Children living in poverty and their • In recent years, in most developed Educational back-up, activities at open families are one of these groups. countries the percentage of children centres; psychological help for children The CaixaProinfancia programme, living in poverty has increased. and their families; summer homes, which runs a social fund to help Concretely, in the last decade, this fi gure holiday houses and camps; school children and their families move has increased in 17 of the 30 countries equipment, basic necessities for babies, out of poverty, was consolidated in in the OCDE. In Spain, 13.3% of minors glasses and hearing aids. 2008. Another group at risk of social are in a precarious situation. Ambit exclusion are prisoners. Thanks to Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, the Scholarship programme, they • The struggle against child poverty, Málaga, Zaragoza, Murcia, Bilbao and have the opportunity of attending to avoid poverty being passed down their metropolitan areas, the Canary training courses that assist their from generation to generation, is one Islands and the Balearic Islands. social reintegration when released. of the main aims of the governments Benefi ciaries Then the Incorpora employment of the European Union, within a Families with children from 0 to 16 years programme, run together with general strategy to promote social old with their social needs insuffi ciently various social entities, fosters the inclusion. ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects covered and who are registered in public placement into work of people with allocates resources to complement this or private social care processes. special diffi culties in fi nding a job, strategy through the CaixaProinfancia Collaborating through the creation of a network of programme, which 247 social entities 247 social entities. job developers. implement and coordinate on the Figures ground. 81,137 children assisted. 198,822 assistances given. Linked Programmes Incorpora Employment Programme. Teaching Resources. Aid to Social Initiative Projects. CiberCaixa Let’s Meet after Class! Social studies.

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• The benefi ciaries are family units with • The CaixaProinfancia assistance • The areas of action of the children aged 0 to 16 who are registered fund for the social and educational CaixaProinfancia programme are the in public or private social care processes development of children includes the most populated cities of Spain and their and have their needs insuffi ciently following: Metropolitan areas, where the biggest covered. • Psycho-social care: psychological pockets of poverty are concentrated. help for children and family therapy, In 2008 the programme was active in • The social entities are responsible educational back-up, care for children Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, for identifying and working with at home, activities at open centres Málaga, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Murcia, the these families and, after examining and summer camps and schools. Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. each particular case, applying for and • Help for babies: basic food and child managing the assistance needed in the hygiene products. framework of an integrated plan of • Help with school equipment and action. These entities are rooted in the glasses and hearing aids. area where the programme is being applied and have long experience in social action and caring for children at risk.

In 2008, CaixaProinfancia provided 198,822 assistances for over 80,000 children living in poverty

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• To prevent the social exclusion of • Benefi ciaries receive this training in Scholarships for Prisoners the prison population, an especially educational centres outside the prison vulnerable group, the programme area, with a near-normal work timetable. Defi nition Scholarships for Prisoners was Thus they enter a context as normal as Scholarships for prisoners to contribute developed in 2008 to cover all the possible, which assists their acquisition to their training and social and job Autonomous Communities. Whereas of pre-work skills (communication skills, reintegration. in 2007-2008 952 scholarships were self-esteem, orientation to work etc.) Action awarded, in 2008-2009 ”la Caixa” and helps them become familiar with Technical training in educational centres Welfare Projects increased these to the obligations consistent with holding outside the prison. The scholarship covers 1,400, with an endowment of over a stable job. The scholarship covers the the cost of the course, travel, keep and a 6.6 million euros and a mean cost per minimum working wage. monthly payment. scholarship of 4,757 euros. Ambit • The training areas are defi ned to All of Spain. • The programme assists the social match the changing situation of the Benefi ciaries and work reintegration of prisoners labour market in each region and take Prisoners in the second and third levels of and helps make their personal and job as their reference the training needs of their sentences. situation normal once they are released. the group for whom the courses are Collaborating designed. 47 educational centres. Number of scholarships 952. Linked Programmes Aid to Social Initiative Projects. Conservation of Natural Spaces and Social Reintegration. Incorpora Employment Programme.

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects awarded 952 scholarships to prisoners during the 2007-2008 school year

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• In 2008, this programme, introduced • The integration into work of people Incorpora Employment Programme into all the 17 Autonomous Communities belonging to these groups at risk of social of Spain, gained the support of 3,122 exclusion contributes important values Defi nition companies and social entities. To facilitate to the company, such as respect for Series of actions to integrate socially relationships with the companies, a diversity, social cohesion and solidarity. excluded groups and groups at risk of social network of job developers, working In addition, thanks to the appearance of exclusion by fi nding them jobs. with the social entities belonging to the a new awareness, companies assuming Action programme, was set up. social commitments are more and more Direct support for the capacity of the recognised and thus more highly valued. companies and social entities belonging • Job developers complement their to the programme to take on employees; training with a job integration course • The fact that this programme works by search for opportunities of placement for that ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects organises creating networks of responsible business benefi ciaries, through the fi gure of the job jointly with various universities. They people favours agreements with employer developer. search for companies and then monitor organisations to increase the number of Ambit the training process and the job history of companies that might take on people All of Spain. the benefi ciaries. As every job developer participating in the programme. In 2008, Benefi ciaries acts in a particular geographical area, 53 accords were signed with various People with physical, intellectual or sensory he/she understands the requirements employer federations and over 10,000 disability, the mentally ill, young people with of companies in that area and can companies were visited for this purpose. diffi culty fi nding their fi rst job, people over match benefi ciary and company in an 45 without job experience, immigrants, the appropriate way. • A new initiative in 2008 was the holding long-term unemployed and women affected in May of the fi rst Incorpora Congress, by domestic violence. • The benefi ciaries of the Incorpora a space for debate on the integration Collaborating programme, 5,959 in 2008, are people into work of people at risk of social 191 social entities. with physical, intellectual or sensory exclusion, which brought together 500 6,020 companies who took on a benefi ciary. disabilities, the mentally ill, young people people, between business people and 297 job developers. with diffi culty fi nding their fi rst job, job integration experts. At this congress Number of people taken on people over 45 without job experience, the fi rst Incorpora Prizes were awarded, 5,959. immigrants, the long-term unemployed, recognising the best social responsibility Linked Programmes ex-prisoners and women affected by practice within the framework of the Immigration. domestic violence. programme. The winning companies CaixaProinfancia. were MAPFRE Quavitae, Campsa, Hotel Violence: Zero Tolerance. Palmeras and Tilseco. Social Studies. Conservation of Natural Spaces and Social Reintegration.

• ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects organises a job integration programme for people at risk of social exclusion, the Incorpora Employment Programme, which is aimed at groups with special diffi culties in fi nding a job. Integrating these people into the world of work cannot be understood as a one-off event, but rather a personal process requiring action, before, at the same time as and after the person is taken on, so as to ensure success for both the worker and the company. Incorpora assists people excluded from society to fi nd work

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Caring for the Elderly

The programmes for elderly people • New technology, volunteer work Elderly People programme, that many of are one of the marks of identity of and ongoing training are the essential the elderly people who did the courses ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects. From features of the ”la Caixa” Foundation’s went on to be volunteers and animators the start, this group was supported Elderly People programme, which for CiberCaixa, engaging in solidarity by initiatives designed to improve promotes active ageing and stimulates activity bringing new technology to their quality of life and reinforce the participation of the elderly in society, groups such as the disabled, children, their personal autonomy. In 2008, in order to improve and maintain immigrants or prisoners. the Elderly People and Prevention personal autonomy and quality of life. of Dependency Programmes were • New in 2008 is the programme Sleep developed in 599 elderly persons • At present, ”la Caixa” has 599 centres Habits, whose aim is to tackle a problem centres, both our own ones and ones for the elderly, both its own ones and those that particularly affects the elderly partly supported by us, so helping with agreements with local government and give guidelines on sleeping better to encourage healthy ageing and bodies, which are meeting-points for through talks, lectures and workshops. an active role for elderly people in participation and training activities. This programme for people over 60 is society. based on information, dissemination and • At these centres, ”la Caixa” Welfare training and is advised by experts such Elderly People Projects organises the programme as Drs. Eduard Estivill and Juan Antonio Computers and Communication within Madrid and the psychologist Montserrat Defi nition reach, which represents for the elderly Domènech. Activities based on new technology, the opening of a door of communication. volunteer work and training, to Since 1997, computer equipment has • The Reader Friends programme encourage an active, healthy and socially been installed at both its own centres organises workshops to encourage integrated old age. and its centres with agreements with reading, which contribute to personal Action local government bodies. At present, autonomy. These stimulate cognitive Setting up of CiberCaixa to give training there are 511 CiberCaixa where courses aspects such as attention span, memory, courses in new technology, talks and and workshops for every training level creativity and imagination. They help workshops on contemporary questions are given, from basic starter courses people to meet each other, encourage and on health and welfare; and in computers and Internet to digital debate and conversation, develop promotion of voluntary work and work photography workshops. reading habits and raise self-esteem. In within associations. 2008, 715 reading workshops in elderly Ambit • It should be emphasised of voluntary persons centres were organised. All of Spain. work, another of the main points of the Figures 599 elderly persons centres (its own and under agreements). 511 CiberCaixa in recreational centres. 3 CiberCaixa in prisons. 4,907,299 benefi ciaries. Linked Programmes Prevention of Dependency. Accessible Housing. Volunteer Work. Social Studies.

The use of new technology is one of the main features of the Elderly People programme

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• ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects also • Another important contribution is Prevention of Dependency runs, in the same area of care of the the adapted transport service, a fl eet elderly, the programme Prevention of of 103 vehicles in all the Autonomous Defi nition Dependence, aimed at more fragile Communities, which enable elderly Activities to optimise abilities and elderly people (those who, despite not people to attend the workshops. encourage the personal autonomy being dependent, fi nd diffi culties in of fragile elderly people with light leading a normal social and personal life) • Newly opened in 2008 was the line dependency and to support their carers. and elderly people just beginning to be One Carer. Two Lives, which has a Action dependent. dual objective: to offer information to Psychological and social workshops, family carers of dependent persons adapted transport service to assist • This programme is mainly carried out and to recognise their task through an attendance at the workshops and at the network of the Foundation’s innovative support programme. Various programme of support for carers. own centres for elderly people and information materials were published, Ambit in conjunction with various local including two guides for the carer and All of Spain. government bodies. It is developed a DVD with practical recommendations Benefi ciaries through psycho-social care workshops on caring for dependent persons. In Fragile elderly people (not dependent, that deal with sensory, psychomotor, addition, there is a call line service and but with diffi culties in leading a normal cognitive and human relations questions. support workshops for carers are run. life) and elderly people just beginning to All these questions are tackled from a be dependent. perspective linked to the prevention of Figures dependency and the fostering of personal 2,241 workshops organised at 364 autonomy. elderly persons centres. 32,976 benefi ciaries. • There are resources created especially 103 microbuses. for these workshops, the KitsCaixa Linked Programmes materials The Challenge of Autonomy, Elderly People. which are given to the benefi ciaries so Volunteer Work. that they can work at home, too. Social Studies.

The Prevention of Dependency programme organises psycho-social workshops to encourage personal autonomy

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Education-play Spaces for Children in Vulnerable Situations

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects devotes development, help reinforce their health • The CiberCaixa Let’s Meet after Class! part of its resources to caring for and welfare and enable them to become are for socially vulnerable children aged children. It has developed two familiar with new communications 3 to 12. programmes for children that provide technology. an education-play space for various • The 32 CiberCaixa operating in activities involving computers, • The Hospital CiberCaixa are equipped 2008 provide an informal educational reading and games. One is the with computers connected to Internet, framework in after-school hours and Hospital CiberCaixa programme, scanner, digital camera, CDs, interactive holidays, which complements formal which helps children in hospital and educational programmes and games, as school life and helps families reconcile their family members live their stay well as books, press, video and DVD. They their jobs and child care. in hospital better. The other is the are run by various groups of volunteers. Let’s Meet after Class! CiberCaixa • Activities focus on three areas: programme, which offers the most computers, reading and audiovisual disadvantaged children a welcoming CiberCaixa facilities and infants. They are run space after school and in the holidays. Let’s Meet after Class! by properly qualifi ed and trained staff, whose responsibility is to foster Defi nition the cognitive, emotional and social Hospital CiberCaixa Welcoming education-play spaces for development of the children. children after school hours and in the Defi nition holidays, located in schools. Education-play spaces in children’s Action hospitals, creating a space for leisure and Educational activities complementing communication. school life, with ICT, reading, audiovisual Action facilities and games. Communication activities through Ambit Information and Communications 5 Autonomous Communities. Technology (ICT), with reading and Benefi ciaries audiovisuals and games; relating to other Socially vulnerable children aged 3 to 12. families. Figures Ambit 32 CiberCaixa operating. 15 Autonomous Communities. 2,211 benefi ciaries. Benefi ciaries Linked Programmes Children in hospital and their families. CaixaProinfancia. Figures Social Studies. 57 CiberCaixa. 152,123 benefi ciaries. Linked Programmes Volunteer Work.

• The Hospital CiberCaixa are spaces in children’s hospitals where children and their families can spend time together and with other people in a leisure environment to minimise the impact of being in hospital.

• Created in 2002, there are at present 57 Hospital CiberCaixa in 15 Autonomous Communities. They foster children’s personal and social The objective of the Hospital CiberCaixa is to improve the lives of children who have to be in hospital

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Economic, Social and Health Aid to Poor Countries

Since 1997, ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects • The International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action. It also runs has run its International Cooperation programme of ”la Caixa” Welfare talks and seminars, and school and family programme to help eradicate extreme Projects is developed in countries in workshops, puts on exhibitions and issues poverty in low-income countries and Asia, Africa and Latin America and lends publications to help raise public awareness encourage the culture of solidarity in support to Spanish NGOs, working with through dialogue and debate. Spain. An essential part of the struggle local NGOs, along three basic lines: against poverty is health, because • Social and economic development: lack of resources and illness always encouraging and supporting Child Vaccination go hand in hand and need to be processes of development in a fought together. The Child Vaccination concrete area, coordinating and Defi nition programme aims to improve health in fi nancing actions to create jobs and Accord with the GAVI Alliance to the poor areas of the planet. economic activity. vaccinate children in low-income • Training of social capital in Africa: its countries. International Cooperation aim is to improve basic social services Action and to raise the qualifi cations of Collaboration with the GAVI Alliance; Defi nition senior and intermediate staff in order leadership of an alliance of Spanish Programme to support international to strengthen national priorities and companies to encourage companies to initiatives to eradicate extreme poverty and strategies. join GAVI; monitoring of vaccination contribute to the sustainable development • Crisis and humanitarian action: it programmes and information sent of poor countries. promotes protection and aid to periodically to members of the alliance. Action victims of natural and human-made Ambit Programmes of social and economic disasters. A data base of humanitarian Countries with per capita income below development, training of social capital organisations that can respond to 1,000 dollars (currently 72 countries). in Africa and Crisis and humanitarian crises has been set up. It is supported Benefi ciaries action; courses for training social agents by the ethical and solidarity investment Children under fi ve. in solidarity work; raising the awareness of fund of ”la Caixa” (FonCaixa Linked Programmes Spanish society. Cooperation), the new “Estrella International Cooperation. Ambit Solidario” Deposit Account and Countries with the most vulnerable groups donations from the general public. in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Figures • Welfare Projects also works on • The Child Vaccination programme, run 25 initiatives selected. international cooperation through in conjunction with the GAVI Alliance, 711,406 benefi ciaries. initiatives linked to Fair Trade. It organises is one of the main new initiatives of Linked Programmes the CooperantsCaixa programme, which Welfare Projects, which in 2008 allocated Child Vaccination. offers technical assistance to NGOs four million euros for the vaccination Volunteer Work. through volunteers from ”la Caixa”, of children under fi ve in low-income Aid for Social Initiative Projects. and it encourages the training of NGO countries and so became the GAVI professionals and managers through the Alliance’s fi rst private partner in Europe. programme, Training of Solidarity Agents • In addition, using its experience in international cooperation, ”la Caixa” set up and leads the Business Alliance for Child Vaccination, which encourages Spanish companies to join the GAVI Alliance in the struggle against child mortality. The ”la Caixa” Foundation monitors the vaccination programmes and periodically informs the members of the business alliance.

The International Cooperation programme assists victims of natural and human disasters

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Promotion of the Active role of Young People

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects also • Aimed at young people, their families, Let’s Talk about Drugs encourages young people to educators and society as a whole, the participate actively in the construction programme Young People with Values Defi nition of society. The Young People with develops along four main lines: Set of initiatives to prevent drug taking Values programme recognises the • The publication Young People and and make the general public aware of the work of young people who take Values, the Key for Tomorrow’s Society, question. social initiatives. It also aims to which seeks to encourage ethical and Action give a positive image of youth and social values in young people through Awareness-raising campaign, touring contribute to ethical and social values. families and the educational community. exhibition Let’s talk about drugs, Drug consumption by the young, one • The programme to raise awareness, educational material and refresher of the problems that currently most based on the touring exhibition Young campaign for health professionals. concerns society, is tackled through People. A Lot to Say, educational Ambit the programme Let’s Talk about workshops, family activities and other All the Autonomous Communities. Drugs, which offers original resources proposals on participation of the young, Benefi ciaries for prevention and guidance to aims to promote ethical refl ection and Young people and their families. families with children aged 11 to 18. harmony between generations. Number of benefi ciaries • The competition of Young People 60,764 visitors to the touring exhibition with Values initiatives, which rewards Let’s talk about drugs. groups of young people who develop Young People with Values 2,700 calls from 1,693 families to the social projects altruistically. This was family guidance line. Defi nition held for the second time in 2008, Linked Programmes Programme to encourage young people to with 8,836 young people with 921 Young people with Values. take part in society and promotion of ethical projects taking part. Social Studies. values and harmony among the young. • Values KitsCaixa, an innovative and Action multi-purpose educational resource Publication of Young People and Values, the aimed at primary teachers and Key for Tomorrow’s Society; the exhibition students to encourage ethical values • The programme Let’s Talk about Young People. A Lot to Say; competition of and social commitment. In 2008, Drugs is also aimed at the young and Young People with Values initiatives; Values 237 new KitsCaixa were distributed their families, to respond to one of the KitsCaixa. through the resource centres of the problems that most affects young people Ambit Autonomous Communities. There are today. Every Autonomous Community. now 322 KitsCaixa, covering twelve Benefi ciaries Autonomous Communities and used • The programme seeks to make a Young people and the general public. by 168,800 children. difference by reducing young people’s Number of benefi ciaries drug consumption and to encourage the 117,422 visitors to the exhibition, Young active role of the family and educational People. A lot to say. community in preventing fi rst-time Linked Programmes consumption. This is why it tackles Accessible Housing. prevention in a combined way, involving Let’s Talk about Drugs. families, educators, health professionals Incorpora Employment Programme. and young people themselves, through Volunteer Work. various activities: information and Scholarships for Master’s Degrees in Spain. consciousness-raising resources (Let’s Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies in Talk about Drugs exhibition), guidance Other Countries. (phone line, family guide and educational Scholarships for Journalism Placements. kit) and training resources (campaign at Scholarships for PhD Studies in Biomedicine. Primary Care Centres). Social Studies.

Let’s Talk about Drugs encourages the active role of the family

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Integrated Care for the Very Ill

In 2008, ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects • This programme, developed jointly • The programme is put into practice by set up the new programme with the Ministry of Health and 30 multidisciplinary teams, consisting of Integrated Care for the Very Ill endorsed by the WHO, is framed a psychologist, a social worker, a nurse and their Families, with a view to within the Palliative Care Strategy of and volunteers, belonging to non-profi t improving their quality of life. the Spanish National Health System. organisations and foundations working According to various calculations, there in the social health area. are currently over 150,000 very ill people Integrated Care for the Very Ill and their Families and their families who require combined • To select these entities, in 2008 the care in Spain. Foundation issued the call for economic help and training, Integrated Care for Defi nition • Welfare Projects allocated a budget the Very Ill and their Families. Model of integrated care for the very ill of over 5 million euros to setting up and their families to improve their quality this pioneer programme, which aims to • The professionals and volunteers of life. be complementary to the treatment of currently working in palliative care in Action the very ill given by the current health our country are the benefi ciaries of this Emotional support for patients and their model. programme, through the experience families, bereavement counselling and gained by the 30 teams working in the support for palliative care teams. • The main areas of the integrated care project. Ambit model are emotional support to patients All the Autonomous Communities. and their family members, bereavement Benefi ciaries counselling and support for palliative The very ill and their families, and care teams. professionals and volunteers in the area of palliative care. Figures 151 patients and 169 family members attended by the 12 teams since the activity started up in December 2008. Linked Programmes Volunteer Work.

The new programme, Integrated Care for the Very Ill and their Families, started up in December 2008

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MicroBank, the Social Bank of ”la Caixa”

2008 was the year of the • After a long history of being leaders • The microloans granted are of two consolidation of MicroBank, the in the granting of microloans in Spain, kinds: social bank of ”la Caixa”, founded ”la Caixa” founded MicroBank, a new • Social: personal loans of up to 15,000 in 2007 to encourage productive concept of fi nancial entity specialising euros to fi nance self-employment activity, the creation of employment in the granting of microloans and projects of people who fi nd it diffi cult and personal and family family help loans to people with limited to enter the traditional credit system development. resources. and need advice on how to develop their business idea. • MicroBank has taken over the • Financial: personal loans of up to management of microloans formerly 25,000 euros to fi nance the creation MicroBank handled by ”la Caixa”, in order to or expansion of small businesses run Defi nition strengthen this task and position itself by people with limited resources. Social Bank of ”la Caixa” specialising in as Europe’s leading social bank. To granting microloans and family assistance achieve this objective, MicroBank has the • Social microloans are granted with the loans to fi nance self-employment support of European institutions such as collaboration of entities (town councils, projects, encourage productive the European Investment Fund and the universities, economic development activity and foster personal and family Council of Europe’s Development Bank. bodies, social organisations) that channel development. and then monitor the loans. These Action • Through microloans, MicroBank are organisations with experience in Financial services, especially microloans supports and supplies fi nance to economic or social development for and family assistance loans through ”la entrepreneurs to assist their social and strengthening self-employment, creating Caixa” branch offi ces and jointly with economic development, respecting micro-companies and promoting business other entities (non-profi t organisations, confi dence and viability criteria in the activity. Currently, 351 entities work with town councils, universities). projects to be fi nanced. the programme. Ambit All the Autonomous Communities. • To provide products and services for Benefi ciaries the target population, MicroBank set up Persons and groups with limited resources a family help line that grants microloans that may fi nd it diffi cult to enter the of up to 25,000 euros for family needs traditional credit system (young people, when temporary diffi culties arise and entrepreneurs, women, unemployed, personal development requires support. low-income families...). Figures • Through these loans, families with 20,641 microloans granted. limited resources can confront home- 28,529 benefi ciaries. related expenses (refurbishing, repairs, 351 collaborating entities. improvements in access), health, education, the integration of new residents, etc.

• Since it was set up, MicroBank has fi nanced 25,151 operations to a sum of 201 million euros, of which 147 million euros are still in portfolio.

MicroBank fi nances self-employment projects for people with limited resources

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Environment and Science Programmes

Introduction Preservation of Marine and Land Natural Spaces and Raising of Environmental Awareness Conservation of Natural Spaces and Reintegration into Society ”la Caixa” in Favour of the Sea CosmoCaixa Barcelona Exhibitions Cycles of Talks, Debates and Courses Explaining Science CosmoCaixa Madrid Exhibitions Cycles of Talks, Debates and Courses Explaining Science

Environment and Science programmes

Environment and Science programmes

The aim of the environment and science and Madrid, as well as with exhibitions Foundation, jointly with the State Society programmes of ”la Caixa” Welfare that tour round Spain. for International Exhibitions, put on the Projects is to respond effectively to exhibition Understanding to Survive: society’s environmental demands. They The main areas of action on the the Climate. include various initiatives in favour of question of conservation and conservation and improvement of natural improvement of natural spaces The show, which received 1,292,507 spaces, programmes to publicise and are waste and biodiversity. In the visitors, took as its starting-point the raise awareness of the importance of former, initiatives seek to prevent and understanding of what had happened sustainable conduct and resources to minimise waste generation. For the latter, to date in our planet’s climate to try develop public consciousness of the actions are focused in particular on the and anticipate what will happen in the question. protection of species classifi ed as in future. It had three axes: the fundamental danger and the conservation of fragile laws of nature, the history of the Earth’s In 2008 ”la Caixa” allocated 64.1 million habitats and ecosystems on land and sea. climate and evidence and interpretations euros to the various environmental and of climate change. scientifi c initiatives developed in the In short, the environment and science centres of Welfare Projects or jointly with programmes are part of a movement In addition, the exhibition contained other bodies. for cultural change in society, a change innovative interactive experiments, models of attitude in the perception of our showing the impact of today’s consumer Environmental themes are publicised natural surroundings and behaviour habits, a virtual globe that illustrated fi fty and social awareness raised by the great that affects the environment. pieces of evidence for climate change, a many activities organised at the Science module on the possible disappearance Museums of Welfare Projects, the At Expo Zaragoza 2008, held between of the Ebro Delta and fossil pieces, CosmoCaixa Museums in Barcelona June and September, the ”la Caixa” exceptional witnesses of climate change.

The touring exhibitions on Science and the Environment help publicise environmental questions and raise social awareness of them

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As well as this exhibition, the ”la Caixa” geometrical shape; and other exhibitions Foundation in 2008 organised 13 touring such as Sticking your Nose in, Sedentary exhibitions, put on in marquees at 90 ones, Origins and Neolithic. places round Spain. Among these were four on forests that brought together the Another programme of Welfare main tree species of the various forest Projects was to offer all the Autonomous ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula, Communities advanced command- the Balearics and the Canary Islands; centre vehicles (PMA), for use Flight. Objective: Flying!, which explains in environmental emergencies or the principles and laws of physics that catastrophes. This started in 2007 in the permit fl ight; Energy. Get Moving for a Community of Madrid and continued Sustainable Future, on the past, present in 2008. The vehicles are a command and future of energy; Humans. The centre, from which all operations in any First Settlers, which takes a scientifi c kind of catastrophe or emergency, in approach to Palaeolithic forms of life, rural or urban surroundings, can be based on archaeological sites and remains centralised. In 2008 the ”la Caixa” in Catalonia; Neuronal Landscapes, an Foundation donated a PMA to each exhibition of scientifi c images relating to of the communities of Cantabria, the nervous system; And Then Came... the Navarre, Valencia, Castilla and León, Shape!, which illustrates the mechanisms the Canary Islands, the Balearics and of biological evolution, starting from the Extremadura. The goal is to equip all emergence of one of the most visible of Spain’s Autonomous Communities characteristics of living beings: their with one of these vehicles by 2009-2010.

The advanced command-centre vehicles (PMA) are equipped for action in environmental emergencies and catastrophes

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Preservation of Marine and Land Natural Spaces and Raising of Environmental Awareness

Welfare Projects organises two • The programme Conservation of • Among the concrete actions developed environmental protection programmes: Natural Spaces and Reintegration into in each space are improvement of forest Conservation of natural spaces and Society of the ”la Caixa” Foundation habitats, fi re prevention, maintenance reintegration into society, and ”la Caixa” brings together two of the main aims of open habitats, protection of river in favour of the sea. These contribute to of Welfare Projects: protection of the spaces and river-banks, restoration the conservation of natural spaces on land environment and reintegration of people of degraded areas and improvement and sea, help educate the public on the at risk of social exclusion. of the infrastructure network and its importance of respecting the environment signposting. In addition, actions that and encourage education on both the • This initiative is put into practice in help reduce the effects of climate environment and science. natural parks and spaces all round Spain change, such as promotion of cuts in

through accords with Autonomous CO2 emissions into the atmosphere or Communities and other public bodies boosting the use of renewable energy, Conservation of Natural Spaces that manage these spaces. were supported. and Reintegration into Society • The programme aims to conserve • The initiative is also designed to Defi nition and improve natural habitats of great strengthen the economic fabric and Series of actions to conserve and improve ecological value. For its tasks, it gives job skills of the local population in the the most valuable ecosystems in Spain priority to the employment of people towns where natural spaces are located. with the intervention of people from from socially disadvantaged groups socially disadvantaged groups, in order at risk of social exclusion, preferably • 573 projects were run in 2008, with to both improve the environment and former prisoners, former drug addicts, 1,114 people at risk of social exclusion promote the integration into society immigrants or women escaping from taking part. of these groups. domestic violence. Action Actions to improve and protect various natural spaces; strengthening of the economic fabric and encouragement of job skills of the local population in the towns where these natural spaces are located; actions to minimise the effects of climate change. Ambit All of Spain. Benefi ciaries Persons from groups at risk of social exclusion (former prisoners, former drug addicts, immigrants, women in extreme situations...) and society as a whole. Collaborating Autonomous Communities and other public bodies that manage natural spaces. Number of benefi ciaries 1,114 people from socially disadvantaged groups. Number of projects 573. Linked Programmes Scholarships for Prisoners. Incorpora Employment Programme. Violence: Zero Tolerance. Immigration. ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects helps conserve and improve Spain’s most valuable Volunteer Work. ecosystems

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• With the programme ”la Caixa” in are designed to make the general ”la Caixa” in Favour of the Sea Favour of the Sea, ”la Caixa” Welfare public aware of climate change Projects wishes to contribute to the and to show how, individually and Defi nition conservation of the marine ecosystems collectively, action can be taken to Series of activities to raise awareness and of Spain’s shoreline through three lines slow down global warming. educate on the environment; scientifi c of action: environmental education, the • The Route of the Íbero. This vessel research and recovery of marine animals rescue and recovery of marine species in focused on drawing up a map of the to conserve the marine ecosystems of danger of extinction and research into peninsula’s Atlantic shoreline that the Spanish coast; and encouragement marine ecosystems. determines the levels of underwater of environmental education and scientifi c noise caused by humans, to fi nd research in the sea. • 2008 saw the following activities: the interaction of this noise with Action • The Route of the Vell Marí. cetaceans and to improve plans for The Route of the Vell Marí, for rescuing, Conservation interventions in the their conservation. It also studied the publicising and researching threatened ocean-going vessel Vell Marí focused state of whales’ habitats and their species and ecosystems; The Route of the on campaigns to observe the effects of population and conducted observation Íbero, to safeguard the health of marine global warming and climate change on and identifi cation campaigns in the ecosystems; acoustic underwater map marine ecosystems. These campaigns Cantabrian Sea and the Atlantic and of Spain’s coastal waters, to monitor the were run at the Columbretes Islands, off the Canary Islands. Its educational sounds of marine transit. where corals and gorgonians were activity focused on showing the value Ambit studied; on the North coast of of our coast-lines’ marine ecosystems All of Spain. Minorca, where the population of the and species, the main threats to Collaborating Balearic shearwater was examined; them and measures to prevent their Foundation for the Conservation and and on the Southern coast of Eivissa degradation. Recovery of Marine Animals, Laboratory (Ibiza) and in the Formentera channel, of Bioacoustic Applications of the where the expansion of invasive algae Polytechnic University of Catalonia, was studied. Its educational activities University of Barcelona, Society for the Study and Conservation of Marine Fauna in Euskadi, Coordinator for the Study of Marine Mammals, Coordinator for the Study and Protection of Marine Species, EDMAKTUB Association for the Study and Publicising of Water Environments, Society for the Study of Cetaceans in the Canaries Archipelago, Wildlife & Oceanic Company. Equipment 2 ocean-going vessels (Vell Marí and Íbero). 2 mobile class-rooms for environmental education. Number of benefi ciaries 38,555.

The rescue and recovery of marine animals is one of the aims of the programme, ”la Caixa” in Favour of the Sea

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CosmoCaixa Barcelona

• CosmoCaixa Barcelona is a Science Temporary Exhibitions CosmoCaixa Barcelona Museum that wants to bring scientifi c knowledge closer to people of all ages. • Amazonia from sun-up to sun-down. Details Its installations, special spaces and From 21 February to 19 November, Opened in 2004. permanent and temporary exhibitions 2008. 30,000 m2. have made this museum belonging to • Comparative Technology. From 28 2,608,985 visits. Welfare Projects an international leader October, 2008 to 31 October, 2009. 822,334 visitors. in the fi eld of popularising science. Since • Numb3rs of good family. From 17 July, Location it opened, CosmoCaixa has become one 2008 to 31 May, 2009. Isaac Newton 26, Barcelona. of Barcelona’s cultural attractions and a • Physics and Music. From 24 April, 2007 Facilities major educational resource for science to 15 June, 2008. 4 halls for temporary exhibitions. teaching. • Long live difference! The most valuable 7 multi-purpose rooms and halls. treasure of the last thousand million Auditorium and Agora. • Its innovatory teaching resources and years. From 23 January, 2007 to 31 Science Plaza. formats mean that it has been very August, 2008. Permanent Exhibitions and Spaces widely accepted by the educational Drowned Forest. community. As well as its workshops, Lecture Cycles, Debates and Courses Geological wall. itineraries, science lessons and guided Explaining Science Hall of Matter. tours, CosmoCaixa always has on offer Planetarium and meteorological station. • Amazonia wounded scientifi c theatre, talks for school students Click and Flash. • Coming closer to science and a science programme in English. Bubble Planetarium. • Dialogues: Social science versus Touch, touch! experimental science • CosmoCaixa’s permanent programme • Great unresolved mathematical of guided tours, laboratories and science conundrums shows is aimed at all sectors of the • Making Science a focus of public, whether the elderly, families educational action or young people... Its activities, which • Men versus women: brains and change every four months, are organised intelligence around both the exhibition programme • Mental health and illness from the and major Spanish and international evolutionary perspective scientifi c events. • Origin and evolution of language • Science and citizens: and today speaks... • Teaching Maths, learning Maths: a challenge for today’s education • The human species and the Earth’s crust • The LHC: a new era in knowledge of matter • The most beautiful story of the Cosmos • Towards a total Museology

CosmoCaixa Barcelona

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CosmoCaixa Madrid

• This Science Museum of Welfare Lecture Cycles, Debates and Courses CosmoCaixa Madrid Projects in Madrid is already established Explaining Science as a major social and cultural space in Details Spain’s capital: it contributes actively to • Amazonia wounded Opened in 2000. the popularisation of science for people • Astronomy for beginners 11,000 m2. of all ages and has also become a • Birth and death of the stars: 1,220,638 visits. meeting-point for experts and scientists formation of stars and planets 299,601 visitors. from various countries. • Constellations: the magic of the sky Location • Inter-disciplinary research with a Pintor Velázquez s/n, Alcobendas Temporary Exhibitions gender perspective (Madrid). • The construction of the body, Facilities biological shapes and artistic reasons • Comparative technology. From 17 3 Exhibition Halls. October, 2007 to 31 August, 2008. • The exploration of Mars 4 multi-purpose rooms and halls. • Theory of the mind: a multi-disciplinary • Ecodesign. From 24 June, 2008 to 21 Conference room / Auditorium. September, 2008. approach Permanent Exhibitions and Spaces • Five artists before Triceratops. From Hall of Matter. 14 July, 2007 to 31 December, 2008. Bubble Planetarium. • Mars-Earth, a comparative anatomy. Touch, Touch! From 6 August, 2008 to 15 May, 2009. Click for Children. • Neuronal landscapes. From 6 August, Digital Planetarium. 2008 to 15 May, 2009. Explore your Five Senses. • Numb3rs. Use and magic in daily life. From 8 May, 2007 to 19 May, 2008. • Long live difference! The most • In 2008, CosmoCaixa Madrid put on a valuable treasure of the last thousand programme of exhibitions, workshops, million years. From 6 November, 2008 courses, talks and debates with the to 31 January, 2010. attendance of experts from around the world in various scientifi c disciplines, a wide array of educational and family events, and extensive activities for young people and the elderly.

CosmoCaixa Madrid

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Introduction CaixaForum Barcelona Exhibitions Montcada Space Humanities Music CaixaForum Madrid Exhibitions Humanities Music CaixaForum Palma Exhibitions Humanities Music CaixaForum Lleida, Tarragona and Sala Girona Cultural Activities outside the Centres Touring exhibitions Music

Cultural programmes

Cultural programmes

Bringing culture closer to society is the Music is an especially fi ne way of of culture and promote debate about main objective of ”la Caixa” Welfare building social cohesion and bringing the great social questions of our time Projects. The activities organised have a cultures closer. This is why it holds through talks, debates, documentaries, clear social vocation. They are designed an important place in the cultural fi lms, literature cycles, prose and poetry to bring art, music, theatre and the programmes of ”la Caixa” Welfare sessions and family workshops. The main humanities within reach of every kind Projects, in both its own centres and the themes of the humanities programme of public, especially people with few halls of many towns and cities. are: classical and contemporary thought, possibilities or custom of enjoying them, literature, poetry, history, cinema, theatre to break the barriers separating them Diversons. Music for Integration is an and events supporting the plastic arts from culture and convert all its aspects outstanding project that poses music as exhibitions. into a tool for personal growth and social a vehicle for communication between integration. people from differing social backgrounds The cultural programmes of Welfare and provides a platform allowing Projects also include theatre-related The various cultural centres of the interpreters and groups to make their activities. The CaixaEscena programme ”la Caixa” Foundation are the stage work known. to introduce people to theatre, which for much of this programming. In began in 2007, became well established 2008, a new XXIst-century model of Other musical events at its own centres in 2008. Aimed at secondary schools, it social and cultural centre was launched: are school and family concerts, which is a meeting-point between theatre and CaixaForum, which has already shown introduce new generations to the musical education, assisting drama performances how it connects with people. Their world, along with concert cycles, fi lmed at the centres and providing various Majesties the King and Queen of Spain music sessions, and talks and courses to materials, from classic texts to wardrobe opened CaixaForum Madrid, the new explain music. or props. In 2008, 591 secondary headquarters of Welfare Projects in the schools from all over Spain, with 23,291 capital. The transformation of the Sala The Foundation’s Humanities Programme students taking part, registered on the Girona into a new CaixaForum was also aims to open to everyone the Humanities, programme. started. The various CaixaForum have discussions of social questions and the become platforms for disseminating very latest in human knowledge. culture that meet the concerns of society Its objective is to examine the roots today and spaces where culture is valued as an element of social integration. In recent years, Welfare Projects has renovated all the facilities at these centres, which put on increasingly more diverse and wide-ranging activities, for every kind of visitor. Each centre has its stable programmes, characterised by their interdisciplinary nature, of exhibitions, concerts, talks, fi lms, debates and multimedia events, which are constantly changing.

In 2008, the Collection of Contemporary Art of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects was shown in various exhibitions both in Spain and internationally. Created in the mid-80s, this collection has become an international reference-point. Its more than 700 works explain the evolution of artistic creation in Spain and internationally over the last 25 years. ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects brings Art and Culture closer to society in numerous exhibitions

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CaixaForum Barcelona

(Summer Nights) and coffee-talks Humanities CaixaForum Barcelona for the elderly. • Exhibitions with social content. • CaixaForum Barcelona organises talks, Details • Cycles of talks, seminars and courses debates, courses and workshops. Opened 2002. on questions of literature, poetry, • Cinema and humour: the comedy of 12,000 m2. thought, cinema, history and today’s my life 1,720,331 visits. society. • Cinema, aesthetics and thought: ten 832,500 visitors. • Educational activities for school transversal classes on the state of cinema Location students, family activities, leisure • Contemporary masters: opening lecture Avenida Marquès de Comillas 6-8, clubs and associations, multimedia in the course, by Mario Vargas Llosa. Barcelona. events and activities for the elderly. • Discourse and society: the formulation of Facilities • Concerts and performances. the discourse on social organisation Five exhibition halls. • Educational challenges of the XXI century Auditorium holding 340 people. Exhibitions • Europe’s XX century and its limits Three halls for courses, talks and other • Greek and Latin literature. VII master- activities. • 1908-2008: 100 years of the Palau pieces Arts Laboratory for educational activities. • Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) • Historical re-creation: Comitia, Media library. Seduction, modernity and utopia electoral propaganda in Rome, and • Art Nouveau-Modernity. Permanent Legio, the Roman legions space devoted to the old Casaramona • History of music: Händel and his • In 2008, CaixaForum Barcelona offered Factory environment a full programme of events for every kind • Avelino Pi, sports photography • How does the globalisation of the of public: • Between the sacred and the profane. economy affect us? • Art exhibitions from many times and The Renaissance at Prato • Images of Africa: Africa in the memory cultures and in various languages, • Candida Höfer in Portugal and ethnographic cinema today with complementary activities such as • Chaplin in images • Publishing reinvents itself: publishers, talks, workshops, family introductions, • Chasing the dream. The 8 Millennium globalisation and culture guided tours for the general public Development Goals • Sixth-generation Chinese cinema. and by appointment for groups, • Etruscan princes. Between East and West Landscapes in transit dynamic visits, visits with commentary • Hannah Collins. History in the making • Summer Nights, poetry recitals for deaf people or people with • Maternities. Photographs by Bru Rovira • The arts of dialogue: peninsular hearing diffi culties, night visits • The bread of angels. Collections from literatures in connection the Uffi zi Gallery • The Rumba, music that travels well • The city transformed, by Jacobo Sucari • The wall’s the screen Music • The Yi school: thirty years of Chinese abstract art • Centenary concerts from the Palau • Views of the Collection de la Música Catalana: a tour through • Zones of risk. ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects the history of the Palau Contemporary Art Collection • Diversons • Filmed music: musics of the world Montcada Space • Filmed music: the voices of Allah • Music evenings and fi lmed music: • Five exhibitions based on research Giacomo Puccini into the youngest and most committed • Music evenings: the voice in opera creation by a contemporary artist. • Music season: the art of the voice

• The following were put on in 2008: Fermín Jiménez Landa, Jonathan Meese, Momu & It’s Not and Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau. CaixaForum Barcelona

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CaixaForum Madrid

• During this fi rst year, CaixaForum Madrid Humanities CaixaForum Madrid has already become a reference-point in the city’s cultural life, hosting a wide range • American Pie. The American dream Details of events: art exhibitions, cinema and • Architectures Opened 13 February, 2008. international cooperation themes; activities • Cinema and psychiatry: glass souls 10,000 m2. to complement the exhibitions; talks, • Cinema, aesthetics and thought. Eight 1,914,331 visits. courses and workshops on humanities; transversal classes on the state of 1,401,472 visitors. music concerts; multimedia events; cinema Location activities for the elderly; and educational • Concerning the emotions Paseo del Prado 36, Madrid. activities for school students and families • Contemporary masters: Tzvetan Facilities on plastic and visual arts, music, literature Todorov Two exhibition halls. and social questions. • Discourse and society. The Auditorium holding 333 people. formulation of the discourse on social Five educational and/or multi-purpose Exhibitions organisation spaces. • Five lessons on the zarzuela (light • ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects- opera) Contemporary Art Collection • Giacomo Puccini • 2008 saw the completion of • ”la Caixa” Social and Cultural • Great literary myths CaixaForum Madrid, the new social and Outreach Projects International • How globalisation of the economy cultural centre of Welfare Projects in Cooperation Programme affects us Spain’s capital, which Their Majesties the • Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). • Josep Pla. The writer and the man King and Queen of Spain opened on 13 Seduction, modernity and utopia • New and old challenges of journalism February. Its fi rst exhibition was of works • Chaplin in images • New frontiers and new formats for from the ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects • Chasing the dream. The 8 Spanish cinema Contemporary Art Collection. Millennium Development Goals • Poetry festival • Etruscan Princes. Between East and • The educational challenges of the XXI • The building, by the Herzog and De West century Meuron architectural practice, was • Josep Pla. The writer and the man • Those who forged Europe constructed by recovering the former • Welfare Projects, the Spirit of ”la Caixa” Mediodía Power Station, which was • The bread of angels. Collections of Music one of the few examples of industrial the Uffi zi Gallery Art nouveau in Madrid. It has two • The Yi school: thirty years of Chinese • Concert cycle: a tour round world underground fl oors and four more that abstract art music “fl oat” over a new 2,500m2 public plaza. • Diversons • Filmed music: Jacqueline du Pré • Music season • Social impact workshop: listen, discover and create your music

CaixaForum Madrid

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CaixaForum Palma

Exhibitions Music CaixaForum Palma

• Between Picasso and Dubuffet. The • Baroque music cycle Details collection of Jean Planque • Course. Rediscovering masterpieces V Opened in 1993. • Chillida. 1980-2000 • Cycle of fi lmed music: world music 4,000 m2. • Etruscan princes. Between East and through children 499,390 visits. West • Diversons 294,729 visitors. • Mars-Earth. A comparative anatomy • Music cycle: the art of the voice Location • Nicolás Forteza. The lived landscape • Workshop: listen, discover and create Plaza Weyler 3, Palma de Mallorca. • Ramon Llull. History, thought and your music! Facilities legend • Spaisonor Five exhibition halls. • The aesthetic of Anglada-Camarasa. Auditorium holding 163 people. Permanent exhibition Three educational and/or multi-purpose • The art of Tibet. Images for spaces. contemplation • The Yi school: thirty years of Chinese abstract art • CaixaForum Palma is a cultural and social centre with considerable Humanities infl uence on life in the Balearic Islands. Several art exhibitions, accompanied • Emotional intelligence by complementary activities such as • Fears and phobias workshops, concerts and special visits, • Great women, great values were put on in 2008. The centre also • Jovellanos in Mallorca and the new organised science exhibitions, cycles on trends thought and classical culture, humanities • Seminar on the Buddhist religion classes, concerts, and educational and • The causes of violence family events on fi lm, the plastic arts, • VI Course of the Humanities Class the visual arts and social questions. Mythology: the world of the Gods • XII Course in Thought and Classical Culture

CaixaForum Palma

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CaixaForum Lleida, CaixaForum Tarragona and Sala Girona

CaixaForum Lleida CaixaForum Tarragona Sala Girona

Details Details Details Opened in 1989. Opened 2001. Opened 1997. 1,835 m2. 1,429 m2. 248 m2. 128,941 visits. 154,269 visits. 63,538 visits. 125,009 visitors. 138,037 visitors. 61,202 visitors. Location Location Location Avenida Blondel 3, Lleida. Cristòfor Colom 2, Tarragona. Sèquia 5, Girona. Facilities Facilities Facilities An exhibition hall. An exhibition hall. An exhibition hall. Auditorium holding 230 people. Auditorium holding 177 people. An auditorium for 250 people. Two educational and/or multi-purpose spaces. Three educational and/or multi-purpose rooms. An educational and/or multi-purpose space.

• In 2008, CaixaForum Lleida put on • The programmes of CaixaForum Tarragona in • Exhibitions, conferences, theatre, exhibitions, activities to complement the 2008 included exhibitions on various questions, activities complementing the exhibitions exhibitions, talks, workshops and other activities complementing the exhibitions, cycles and educational and family events were events for all kinds of public on art, of talks, seminars, drama, cinema, educational all present in the programming of the Sala science, literature, music, fi lm and social and family events and a wide range of music. Girona in 2008. questions, with knowledge, education, • Exhibitions: A day in Mongolia; A house • Exhibitions: A house for not living in. refl ection and debate as its objectives: for not living in. ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects Contemporary • Exhibitions: Gustav Klimt, drawings Contemporary Art Collection; Gustav Art Collection; Chaplin in images; Henri 1879-1918; Henri Cartier-Bresson. Klimt. Drawings 1879-1918; Henri Cartier- Cartier-Bresson. Photographer; The art of Photographer; Mars-Earth. A Bresson. Photographer. Tibet. Images for contemplation. comparative anatomy; The art of • Humanities: Archaeology and • Humanities: Johann Sebastian Bach Tibet. Images for contemplation. Christianity: the search for the roots of cycle; Five major fi gures of Greek and • Humanities: II cycle of classical Christianity; Challenges of economic Latin antiquity; Super-computing in the XXI thought and culture; Historical globalisation; Cinema and psychiatry: century; The future of cities and the city of biographies; Johann Sebastian Bach; glass souls; Condition of being foreign; the future; The living experiences of death. The future of cities and the city of Documentary + Debate; Cycle of Classical • Music: Christmas concert: traditional the future; The living experiences Thought and Culture; Cycle of Musical music and dance of Europe; Diversons; of death; Witches,“meigas” and Documentary Cinema; Emotional Filmed music: music, faith and characters from the underworld. intelligence; Five major fi gures of Greek movement; Musical afternoons with... • Music: Diversons; Musiks. Third and Latin antiquity; Guidelines for a Bach; Rediscovering master-pieces. cycle of young interpreters; Songs of happy life; Health, healthiness and • Science and environment: Science the spirit; The art of the voice cycle; society: a cultural refl ection; Historical evenings; Supercomputing in the 21st Theatrical nights; Spaisonor; Wagner: biographies; Johann Sebastian Bach Cycle; century. the tetralogy step by step. Literary autumn; Tàrraco live: lectures; • Science: Science evenings. The future of cities and the city of the • On 28 September, 2008 the Sala Girona, future; Universal religions: Buddhism and in the city’s Sèquia street, closed its doors. Judaism; Witches,“meigas” and characters In the coming months the building will from the underworld. become the city’s new Elderly Person’s • Music: Concerts of the Renaissance day-centre. At the same time the former and Italian Baroque; world music; Dixie day-centre will begin its refurbishment to evenings; Filmed music: the voices of Allah; house CaixaForum Girona, a new social and Let’s go deeper into the master-pieces; The cultural centre of ”la Caixa”, with bigger art of the voice. facilities and greater resources to promote • Science: Environment week; Science- the social presence of culture. Between citizen lectures; Science evenings. October and December, the exhibition Chaplin in images could be visited at the Hall for temporary exhibitions of the city’s History Museum.

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Cultural Activities outside the Centres

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects encourages Catalan Studies to the Vall d’Aran and Art in the Street taking culture out to society not only Alta Ribagorça. through activities at its own centres, • Avelino Pi. Photography of sport. • With this programme ”la Caixa” but also by organising cultural events This retrospective exhibition of the Welfare Projects places within reach of outside these centres, in various photographer Avelino Pi on the great the general public both the classics of different settings: touring exhibitions sporting moments of the last four sculpture and the latest trends. Various and music concerts. decades opened in Santa Cristina towns provide central places for open-air d’Aro in July 2008. exhibitions, where the sculpture’s impact Touring Exhibitions • By the thread of silver. Photographs is so much greater and the connection of Extremadura in the Mas Archive with the public more direct and fl uid. • Welfare Projects organises exhibitions (1927-1950). Opening in Mérida in • Auguste Rodin. Exhibition of seven for all kinds of public that are put October 2008, it then moved on to monumental sculptures by the French on throughout Spain. Many of these other towns in Extremadura. Through artist: The Thinker and six fi gures exhibitions are accompanied by photography, the exhibition shows for the Monument to the Burghers complementary activities for families and the public the archaeological and of Calais. Cities: Palma de Mallorca, schools. artistic treasures of Extremadura. Granada, Valladolid, Sevilla. • The Lost Myth. Showing of 22 Exhibitions • Other photographic exhibitions were bronze pieces by the Polish sculptor organised in 2008, too, such as Andalusia Igor Mitoraj, inspired by the Greek • The following photography exhibitions imagined, Chaplin in images and and Roman era and pre-Colombian were shown in 2008: FotoPres’07; plastic arts ones, such as culture. Cities: Almería and Madrid. • 1907 archaeological mission to the Chillida. 1980-2000, Pablo Gargallo in his • Manolo Valdés. Exhibition of 17 Pyrenees. This exhibition, opening in museum, A day in Mongolia or Designers monumental sculptures by this La Seu in April 2008 was then put on for a myth. Homage to Toulouse-Lautrec; Valencian artist, based on themes from in several other Pyrenean towns. It fi lm exhibitions such as Hannah Collins. the history of art. Cities: Sevilla, Bilbao, showed 71 unpublished photographs History in the making; and history ones, Burgos, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Almería, of the expedition of the Institute of such as Sedentary ones. The fi rst villages Logroño, Salamanca, A Coruña. in Catalonia. Historical Exhibitions and Exhibitions on a Particular Theme

• Focusing on suggestive topics, often historical ones, these accessible exhibitions were accompanied by complementary activities for families and schools. • Europe was the path • Science in the Andalusian world • The aromas of Al-andalus • The Iberians • The Millares, an age-old civilisation

The exhibition The 1907 archaeological mission to the Pyrenees

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Music Granada, San Sebastián, Valladolid, • School and family concerts. These Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Sevilla and concerts, organised throughout Spain, • Diversons. Music for integration. Madrid, and one in Palma de Mallorca, offer children the opportunity of sharing Organised by ”la Caixa” Welfare Santiago de Compostela and Girona. with their families the experience of a Projects, this is open to interpreters stimulating show that introduces them of world music rooted in or inspired • Since 2006, the festivals of Ancient to music in a didactic and playful way. by traditional music. Priority is Music and World Music have been put The following productions were put on given to acoustic instruments and on by joint agreement of ”la Caixa” in 2008: Sakapatú! A voyage through reinterpretation of the traditional and the Auditorium of Barcelona. Andean music, The Moussakis. Balkan repertory, to young artists and little- music, The Superbarber of Seville and known artists. By 2008, 262 concerts • Participative performances of Carmina Metal and its colours. had been held in many towns Burana. New in 2008, along the lines throughout Spain, with 135,704 people of the participative concerts of the attending. Messiah. In this case, amateur singers perform in one of the XX century’s most • Participative performances of Händel’s popular choral works: Carmina Burana, Messiah. One of the traditional events by Carl Orff. The fi rst of these concerts in our music programme, it gives the was held on 18 July, 2008 at the audience the possibility of singing the Auditorium of Barcelona. choral parts of Händel’s oratorio from their seats. 19 participative concerts were held in 2008: two in Barcelona, Valencia,

Musicians from all round the world take part in the Diversons cycle

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Education and Research Programmes

Introduction Scholarships Scholarships for Master’s Degrees in Spain Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies in Other Countries Scholarships for Journalism Placements Scholarships for PhD Studies in Biomedicine

Education and Research Programmes

Education and Research Programmes

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects has an This programme responds to two of and clinical research into AIDS. Among important commitment to education the most important demands of the other projects, this centre is carrying out, and research, convinced as it is that scientifi c community: the need to jointly with Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic, investment in these fi elds is essential for promote research in Spain through major research to develop a vaccine that reaching the highest levels of progress the sponsorship of private entities and will be able to eradicate AIDS. and social welfare. the appropriateness of incorporating students from other countries into the Welfare Projects is also collaborating In 2008, ”la Caixa” allocated 32.6 research groups developing scientifi c in the research projects developed by million euros to its educational and programmes in Spain. the Institute of Cancer Research at research programmes. As well as the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, awarding scholarships for Master’s 40 of these scholarships were awarded and the Spanish National Centre of degrees in Spain, for postgraduate in 2008 and in the next three years the Cardiovascular Research, Madrid. studies in other countries and for fi gure will rise to 120. journalism placements, it set up a new The importance that Welfare Projects programme of scholarships for studies Along the same lines of support for gives to education and its pedagogic leading to a PhD in Biomedicine.This biomedical research, in 2008 Welfare vocation are also refl ected in the programme allows the best young Projects continued with its programme wide range of educational activities talents in the world to join top-level of aid to prestigious scientifi c research for different groups put on both at biomedical research teams at four centres, which contribute to improving the social and cultural centres of the Spanish centres: the Spanish National citizens’ quality of life through new Foundation –CaixaForum at Barcelona, Centre for Cancer Research (CNIO), the therapies and diagnostic methods. Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Lleida and Spanish National Biotechnology Centre Tarragona; Sala Girona; CosmoCaixa (CNB-CSIC), the Genome Regulation Since 1995, Welfare Projects has been in Barcelona and Madrid– and in the Centre (CRG) and the Institute of supporting the IrsiCaixa laboratory, one various touring exhibitions organised by Biomedical Research (IRB). of the world’s leading centres in basic Welfare Projects. These activities, aimed at school students and their families too, aim to bring culture and science closer to society in an accessible and fun way.

Educational activities are often linked to exhibitions or to the centre where they are held. Through workshops and dynamic visits, active participation is sought. Their subjects are various and embrace several scientifi c and artistic fi elds: music, painting, photography, theatre, science, the environment, etc. Often special educational materials are composed to help understand the question.

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects supports biomedical research into new therapies and diagnostic methods

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Scholarships

• Since 1982, the ”la Caixa” Foundation Scholarships for Master’s Scholarships for Postgraduate has organised a programme of Degrees in Spain Studies in Other Countries scholarships to help students to complete or broaden their academic training at Defi nition Defi nition the most prestigious centres in Spain Programme of scholarships to take an Programme of scholarships for and other countries. The Foundation’s offi cial Master’s degree at any university postgraduate studies at foreign scholarship programme is currently the or centre of higher education in Spain. universities or centres of higher leading one in Spain and one of the Action education, with a view to contributing three top programmes in the world To give the fi nance and support to the scientifi c progress, research and organised by private entities: because of necessary for students to take the professional skills of the students, as the its economic endowment, the number Master’s degree that best suits their pillars on which society is built. of scholarships awarded and the services abilities and potential and to derive the Action provided to students. In 2008 ”la Caixa” maximum benefi t from it. To give to Spanish university students awarded 410 scholarships in all: Number of scholarships the fi nance and support necessary for • 200 scholarships for Master’s degrees 200. postgraduate studies at the best training in Spain. Linked Programmes and research centres in the world. • 140 scholarships for postgraduate Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies in Number of scholarships studies in other countries. Other Countries. 140. • 40 scholarships for PhD studies in Scholarships for Journalism Placements. Countries Biomedicine. Scholarships for PhD Studies in United States: 50 scholarships. • 30 scholarships for journalism Biomedicine. Germany: 25 scholarships. placements. France: 20 scholarships. Great Britain: 20 scholarships. Canada: 10 scholarships. China: 10 scholarships. India: 5 scholarships. Linked Programmes Scholarships for Master’s Degrees in Spain. Scholarships for Journalism Placements. Scholarships for PhD Studies in Biomedicine.

In 2008 ”la Caixa” awarded 410 scholarships for further studies

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Scholarships for Journalism Scholarships for PhD Studies Placements in Biomedicine

Defi nition Defi nition Programme of scholarships for students Programme of scholarships for students in the fi nal year of Information Sciences from all round the world to study their (branch of Journalism) at any Spanish doctorate at four Spanish biomedical university, to strengthen professional research centres. praxis in the training of young journalists. Action Action Accord with four Spanish biomedical Training placements of two years at the research centres to fi nance a programme EFE Agency: the fi rst year in Spain; and of postgraduate scholarships for students the second, at an international offi ce. from all round the world. Number of scholarships Number of scholarships 30. 40. Linked Programmes Linked Programmes Scholarships for Master’s Degrees in Spain. Scholarships for Master’s Degrees Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies in Spain. in Other Countries. Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies Scholarships for PhD Studies in Other Countries. in Biomedicine. Scholarships for Journalism Placements.

The Chairman of ”la Caixa”, Isidro Fainé, with the Minister of Health, Bernat Soria, at the presentation of the new programme of biomedical research scholarships

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Details of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 2008

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects Budget Directory of the ”la Caixa” Foundation

Details of ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 2008

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects Budget Breakdown of the budget

Breakdown of Welfare Projects budget, fiscal year 2008

PROGRAMMES THOUSAND EUROS Social programmes 297,131 Environmental and scientific programmes 64,057 Cultural programmes 70,930 Educational and research programmes 32,608 Total 464,726

32,608 7% 70,930 15%

SOCIAL PROGRAMMES ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES 297,131 CULTURAL PROGRAMMES 64% 64,057 EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PROGRAMMES 14% Total budget: 464,726 thousand euros

Welfare Projects budget, fiscal year 2009

PROGRAMMES THOUSAND EUROS Social programmes 309,467 Environmental and scientific programmes 81,419 Cultural programmes 79,022 Educational and research programmes 30,092 Total 500,000

30,092 6% 79,022 16% SOCIAL PROGRAMMES ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES CULTURAL PROGRAMMES 309,467 EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PROGRAMMES 81,419 62% 16% Total budget: 500,000 thousand euros

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2008 Annual Report ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects 53 Photographs Josep M. Alonso: pg. 31. Montse Blasco: pg. 8, 9. Roland Stallard: pg. 32. Joan Masats: pg. 10,11,13,15, 20. Paco Ontañón: pg. 33. Concept and design Jordi Nieva: pg. 16, 26, 27, 34, 35, 36, 42. MRC: pg. 37. Exit de disseny Ferrater, Morales, Campins: pg. 17. Máximo García: pg. 38. Exit de disseny: pg. 18. Cincuenta y cinco: pg. 39. Layout and printing Pere Ferrer: pg. 19. Roc Herms: pg. 44, 45. www.cege.es H. Caux / Acnur: pg. 21. Fernando Bagué: pg. 47. Alvaro Bujous: pg. 23. Chema García: pg. 48. Cover photograph Susana Ferran: pg. 24. Martin Barraud / Getty Images: pg. 50, 51. Joan Masats Salvador Esparbé: pg. 28, 41. Rubén Serra: pg. 29. Remaining photographs: author’s D.L.: B. 17852-2009 Sara Nadal: pg. 30. copyright. FUNDACIÓN ”LA CAIXA” Avenida Diagonal, 621-629. 08028 Barcelona, España Teléfono: +34 93 404 60 00 Fax: +34 93 339 57 03 Internet www.laCaixa.es/ObraSocial