Annual Report 2020 Annual Report 2020 Contents 83 Social Development and Sustainability Activities 84 Active Citizens 88 Sustainable Development 100 Armenian Communities 103 Partnerships for Development 113 Delegations 05 Introduction 114 Delegation in France 06 Message from the President 116 United Kingdom Branch 09 The Founder 121 Management Strategy and Activities 11 Internal Organisation 122 ESG in the Investment Portfolio 12 2020 in Numbers 125 Sustainable Development Goals 131 Sustainable Gulbenkian 15 Activities 136 Human Resources 138 Auditing and Risk Management 16 Gulbenkian 2020 140 Compliance 18 2020 Month by Month 143 Quality 22 Covid-19’s Impact on the Foundation’s Activities 145 Digital Transformation 27 Board of Trustees 151 Financial Statements 35 Scientific and Knowledge Activities 36 Gulbenkian Scholarships 152 Management Report 41 Knowledge 156 Financial Statements 47 Future Forum 203 Audit Committee Report 52 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência 208 Report and Opinion of the Statutory Auditor 59 Artistic and Cultural Activities 213 Institutional Information 60 Descobrir – Educational Activities 66 Art Library and Archives 215 Partnerships 69 Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and Modern Art Centre 217 Composition of the Board of Trustees and Respective Committees 73 Gulbenkian Music 218 Heads of Departments, Programmes and Initiatives 78 Gulbenkian Culture 220 Useful Information 2 / Annual Report 2020 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / 3 Introduction 4 / Annual Report 2020 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / 5 Message month, by the end of April. In addition to Two new directors (António Filipe Pimen- providing support for the most marginalised tel and Benjamin Weil) were selected for from the President communities, it was also able to contribute the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the to the national capacity for the production Modern Art Centre (CAM), marking the of essential medical equipment. Its most beginning of a cycle of programming which, structural actions were maintained thanks together with the Garden expansion works, to the flexible management of the projects we believe will foster a more open and closer that were already underway and the launch link to the city and our audiences. of new forward-looking initiatives, such as In the scope of the digital transformation support for the technological solutions to project, the Foundation has decided in the resolve health issues and scientific research. last year to adopt a new editorial policy to In the field of science, the technological give the general public access to both the platforms and scientific skills of the Insti- classics of world culture and outstanding Everyone has been profoundly marked by the events of 2020. tuto Gulbenkian de Ciência were used to works from Portuguese culture. The edi- How could anybody have anticipated the length and impact advance scientific knowledge about the tions and subsequent reissues will now be of the Covid-19 crisis that has had such a devastating effect virus and, in conjunction with other Institu- available primarily in digital format, with on so many? Indeed, the serious consequences of the tions in the Lisbon area, we developed tests, free and universal access. In this first phase, pandemic continue to be felt, above all among the most namely serological tests, for mass produc- 52 titles ranging from Plato to Saint Augus- vulnerable in our society, which poses challenges that our tion and administration, given that diag- tine together with other great universal Foundation has faced and must continue to face. nostics was the strongest tool in the fight classics will be made available. against the virus. The various grants attrib- Our aim with this Report is to provide uted to IGC researchers this year, namely forthright and intuitive evidence of the researchers from ERC and EMBO, are also The 2020 activity plan was prepared in Dozens of initiatives in the Foundation’s work conducted by the Foundation over to be commended as they testify to the rec- a different context and therefore had to be different areas of operation – Health, Sci- 2020, as well as accountability in line with ognition of the quality of research produced adjusted and reformulated over the year to ence, Civil Society, Education and Culture the transparency principle we have always by our institution. accommodate not only the new needs and – strived to be on the front line in the fight adopted and believe to be essential to the circumstances raised by the pandemic cri- to mitigate the negative effects of the crisis In 2020, the “Gulbenkian Prize for relationship with the beneficiaries of our sis, but also due to the need to cancel or sus- among the most vulnerable populations, not Humanity – Climate Change” was awarded actions. In 2020, we would also like to high- pend all performances and exhibitions until only the sick but also the elderly, refugees, for the first time. This prize of 1 million euros light the Foundation’s commitment towards the lifting of the restrictions on gatherings ethnic minorities and all those at risk of pov- is perhaps the Calouste Gulbenkian Founda- incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social of people in accordance with the guidelines erty. We were also able to contribute to the tion’s most symbolic project in the field of and Governance) criteria in our investment set by the national authorities in May. challenge set by the European Commission sustainability. In its first edition, the Prize portfolio decisions, a practice we consider and the Portuguese Government to create During the mandatory lockdown period was awarded to the young activist Greta compatible with our fiduciary duty and phil- a cooperation platform to raise funds in in March and April, the Board of Trustees Thunberg, who used it to help various insti- anthropic mission. support of a global response to Covid-19. made the decision to strengthen society’s tutions dedicated to the climate and sus- April 2021 resilience in the Foundation’s main fields of The Foundation was able to revise its pro- tainability, thus extending the Foundation’s intervention by setting up an “Emergency gramme and implement these emergency reach further than would otherwise have Isabel Mota Fund” to disperse over 6 million euros. actions in record time, a little less than a been possible through direct interventions. President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 6 / Annual Report 2020 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / 7 Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian at age 30. © ARR The Founder Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was born on 23 March 1869, in Üsküdar, Istanbul, in present-day Turkey, in the midst of a wealthy family of Armenian merchants. Having studied at Marseille, he majored in Engineering in 1887 at King’s College in London, after which he devoted himself to the emerging petroleum production and trading industry, where he made an extraordinary fortune. Living between London and Paris, he continued to work on the financing and exploration of oil wells, and he helped to build and develop the industry, especially in the Middle East. In April 1942 he came to Lisbon, fleeing the war that had once again broken out in Europe. During the thirteen years he lived here, he continued to develop his exceptional facets as an art collector and philanthropist. He died in Lisbon, on 20 July 1955, expressing in his will the wish to create a Foundation under his name, which would be dedicated, in Portugal and throughout the world, to charity, art, education and science. 8 / Annual Report 2020 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / 9 © CGF / Pedro Pina Internal Organisation Board of Trustees Remuneration Committee Investment Committee Audit Committee Statutory Auditor Auditing and Risk Management Secretary-General Office of the President Secretary of the Board Artistic Scientific Social Delegations Management and Cultural and Development Activities Knowledge and Sustainability Delegation Central Services Activities Activities in France Art Library Communication and Archives Gulbenkian Armenian United Kingdom Finance Scholarships Communities Branch Gulbenkian and Investment Music Future Forum Gulbenkian Legal Office Sustainable Calouste Instituto Development Marketing, Gulbenkian Gulbenkian Programme Systems Museum de Ciência and Digital Gulbenkian Transformation Modern Art Gulbenkian Partnerships Centre Knowledge for Development Planning Programme Programme Gulbenkian and Strategy Culture Active Citizens Human Resources Programme Programme 10 / Annual Report 2020 © CGF / Pedro Pina 2O2O in Numbers Scientific and Knowledge Artistic and Cultural Activities Activities 22,9 M € 28,6 M € 40 7 thousand 11 111 2 CONFERENCES ATTENDEES EXHIBITIONS ITINERANT AND MEETINGS thousand EXHIBITIONS VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM, CAM AND EXHIBITIONS 23 686 TRAINING TRAINEES 122 77 6 COURSES CONCERTS thousand thousand ATTENDEES VISITORS TO THE ITINERANT EXHIBITIONS 27 15 thousand PUBLICATIONS COPIES 963 22 17 5 EDUCATIONAL CINEMA ACTIVITIES thousand AND OTHER thousand PARTICIPANTS PERFORMANCES ATTENDEES + than 1.7 million PEOPLE COVERED Gulbenkian Social Development Covid-19 Emergency and Sustainability Activities Fund 19,5 M € 6,4 M €* * This amount (€6.4m) is already contemplated + than 1.150 in the distribution across the Foundation’s 3 lines – ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTED 400 1.000 3 Art and Culture, Social Development and Sustainability, GRANTS SCHOLARSHIPS PRIZES and Science, Education and Health. 12 / Annual Report 2020 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / 13 Activities 14 / Annual Report 2020 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / 15 Gulbenkian