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B O T Í N F O U N D A T I O N
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In 1964 Marcelino Botín-Sanz de Sautuola
and his wife Carmen Yllera established the
Marcelino Botín Foundation to “respond
to the needs and help foster social devel
opment” in Cantabria. Today, after fifty
years of progress and still true to the ideas
of its founders, the Botín Foundation is
Spain’s leading private foundation in terms
of the scale of its investment and the far-
reaching impact of its programmes.
The mission of the Botín Foundation is to contribute to the global devel-
opment of society. To achieve this, it manages a variety of programmes in
education, science, rural development, culture and social work. Its sphere
of action focuses primarily on Spain, though it also carries out interna-
tional projects in Ibero-America and the USA, among others.
The Foundation’s programmes reflect its conviction that talent is the
main driving force in the development of society and, accordingly, it con-
tinually strives to stimulate and support that talent.
THE FOUNDATION
Carmen Yllera Marcelino Botín
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*Accounts audited by Deloitte
Emilio Botín
Board of TrusteesPRESIDENT
Emilio Botín
TRUSTEES
Jaime Botín
Emilio Botín O’Shea
Javier Botín O’Shea
Ana Patricia Botín O’Shea
Paloma Botín O’Shea
Carmen Botín O’Shea
SECRETARY AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
Iñigo Sáenz de Miera Cárdenas
INVESTMENT BUDGET OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS (in millions of Euros)
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VenuesThe head office of the Botín Foundation is located in Santander at
number 1 Pedrueca Street in what used to be the Sanz de Sautuola
family’s house. The Foundation’s exhibition venue is in the nearby the
Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola Street.
The Promontorio, home of the banker Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola
and his wife Ana García de los Ríos, and the Villa Iris are two of the
city’s most emblematic venues. The first is used for institutional acts
and the second holds exhibitions and workshops.
The Technology Transfer Unit and part of the Foundation’s staff oper-
ate from the city of Madrid.
In addition to these venues, the Foundation also manages the Casa
Rectoral in Puente Pumar, which acts as its operations centre in the
Nansa Valley and as an important meeting place and socioeconomic
stimulant for the area’s residents.
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EducationSince 2004 the Foundation, in collaboration with the Government of Can-
tabria, has been implementing its Responsible Education Programme at more
than 100 schools in the region. The programme encourages children and
teenagers’ physical, emotional, intellectual and
social development. The objective is to make
students feel more comfortable with themselves
and to interact in a positive manner with others,
thus improving academic performance and
avoiding potential psychosocial risks. It employs
its own materials and methodology and builds upon international activities
such as the United Nations Programme Model: Global Classrooms.
In 2009, in order to better promote its activities and
findings, the Foundation launched the Botín Platform for
Innovation in Education, an international work group
that exchanges information about experience and
practical improvements in the field of education.
Since it was established the Foundation has helped
young people from Cantabria to further their educa-
tion, and some 2,200 students have benefited from its grants so far. In addition to this, it has developed an Ibero-American
Institutional Reinforcement Programme, its first fully inde-
pendent project in America, the objective of which is to
better equip and support the vocation of highly prom-
ising young people who wish to pledge themselves to
their countries by working in the public services.
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ScienceThe Botín Foundation’s main endeavour in this field is to help improve
the technological transfer process from basic research to society at large.
Since 2003, the Foundation has been working with some of Spain’s
foremost biomedicine research teams on an ambitious project designed
to accompany the researchers on every rung of the productive knowl-
edge ladder.
The Foundation provides funding for groups to enable them to devote
their efforts and resources to the transfer process. At the same time the
Foundation’s own team of specialists in this field actively seeks out and
identifies “new ideas”, assesses their industrial and commercial viability
and supports product development to help them to reach the market.
In an effort to share its expertise, the Foundation provides resources and
programmes to enhance the training of technological transfer specialists.
Lastly, the Foundation has put in practice a
new “Mind the Gap” programme, to allow
the development of new companies based on
advanced technology discovered by these
Spanish science groups.
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Arts and cultureIn parallel to a full and wide-ranging schedule of concerts and confer-
ences, the mainstay of the Foundation’s cultural department is its Arts programme centred on research, training and promoting the arts in exhi
bitions. Research focuses on exploring and promoting Spanish drawing;
training is achieved by means of grants and visual arts workshops that
have become well-established and internationally renowned.
The exhibition venue, the Founda-
tion’s showcase for its Arts pro-
gramme, organizes shows of the
work being done, thanks to the insti-
tution’s support, by grant awardees.
The venue also hosts exhibitions
related to its Spanish drawing re-
search initiative, not to mention a
solo show featuring work by the art-
ist who has been selected to direct
the visual arts workshops each year. In summer the venue holds an inter-
national exhibition, thus allowing the work of leading artists and institu-
tions to be shown in Santander.
Information, photographs and videos about these activities may be found
on the website (www.fundacionbotin.org). It also features the artists who
have been grant awardees and workshop leaders, the artists with exhibi-
tions and the art catalogues published by the Foundation.
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The Music activities organized by the Founda-
tion include two composition prizes (Manuel
Valcárcel International Piano Composition Prize
and the Arturo Dúo Vidal International Cham-
ber Music Composition Prize), as well as the
Centre for Musical Research of Cantabria and
a concert programme which is one of the
city’s cultural highlights.
The Foundation runs a public library specializ-
ing in Music and Contemporary Art, and also
catering to Education and Rural Development.
The library contains 28,000 records includ
ing in-depth studies, printed music, sound re-
cordings and videos and it subscribes to 83
periodical art and music publications.
Along similar lines, in collaboration with the
University of Cantabria and other institutions, the Foundation has devel-
oped an innovative semantic web which has assembled and arranged a
large amount of data about the region’s historical and cultural heritage.
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developmentRural development and heritageOne of the original objectives of the Foundation was the conservation
of the heritage of Cantabria and it has significantly contributed to both
preserving and understanding it.
In the year 2005 it set out to respond to the challenges of rural develop-
ment by designing a model of global sustainable growth and putting it into
effect in a specific area of Cantabria: in the Nansa valley and Peñarrubia.
In this manner the Nansa valley and Peñarrubia Heritage and Land Pro-
gramme established a methodology, highly innovative in its transversal
approach, in five successive phases, from defining and choosing the land to
the practical implementation of a plan of action focussing on socioeconom-
ic incentivisation. Its aim is to promote the global development of the valley
by employing resources found in its own nature, landscape and culture.
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developmentSince the Foundation was established it has
followed the express wish of its founders by
carrying out a Social Work programme in Can-
tabria with the assistance of other institutions
that have experience of working directly with
the communities they care for.
The Foundation is the driving force behind var-
ious programmes including schemes for chil-
dren, assistance for immigrants, caregiving for
the elderly, prevention of drug addiction and
the integration of disabled people.
In addition, it has developed its own job placement plan for the unem-
ployed in institutions in the third sector. The objectives of the plan are to
locate talented individuals who have lost their jobs because of the effects
of the crisis, to find positions for them in foundations and associations
and to stimulate the development and professionalization of the third
sector which currently provides employment for 6% of Spain’s salaried
work force.
Social work
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Observatory of trendsThe mission of the Botín Foundation’s Observatory of Trends is to explore
subjects relating to the development of society more fully and to strive
to define the trends marking the processes of change in the contempo-
rary world.
Its main fields of attention are socioeconomic and political develop-
ment, education, the management of hydrologic resources (Observatory
of Water), the evolution of artistic and social ideas and the new horizons
of science.
The work being done regarding trends
in the field of science, moreover, is
planned in partnership between the
Collège de France Chair and the Botín
Foundation. This collaboration allows
leading French and Spanish scientists
to discuss and exchange their ideas.
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Strategic projects and collaborationsIn addition to running its own programmes the Botín Foundation collab-
orates with other institutions to support initiatives of particular strategic
importance for Cantabria and the rest of Spain.
The Comillas Foundation is a project that aims to benefit Spanish
society as a whole by creating, in a privileged spot in Cantabria, the
International Centre of Higher Spanish Studies (Centro Internacional
de Estudios Superiores del Español, CIESE).
The united World College of Spain, which will be located in Comillas,
is set to become a driving force behind the region’s development and
to lead its quest for excellence in education.
The Pro-CNIC Foundation brings together some of the country’s
leading companies and foundations to present a united front to sup-
port the National Centre of Cardiovascular Research.
In addition, the Botín Foundation collaborates with social and cultural
institutions, especially universities, with which it shares objectives and
approaches.
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Each and every one of the activities carried out by the Botín Foundation
since it was launched is due to the effort of all the people who have
worked and collaborated with the institution. Their engagement with
the Foundation’s mission and with the global development of society
make it possible to continue supporting talent and working towards a
better future. The trustees would like to take this opportunity to express
their thanks to all those who strive to faithfully respond to the founders’
wishes today.
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