23/01/2009
Vitoria-Gasteiz, January 23, 2009 - Fundación Catedral
Santa María was named a finalist in the eighteenth edition of the
Corporate Sponsorship and Patronage Awards given out yesterday in
Madrid. Specifically, its sponsorship programme Los pilares de
Vitoria-Gasteiz was named a finalist in the category of
artistic-historical heritage, which was won by Fundación Santa María la
Real.
Yesterday, the Real Casa de Correos in Madrid hosted the
AEDME awards ceremony, an act presided over by the President of the
Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, and attended by a substantial
representation prominent figures from Spain’s business, social and
cultural worlds.
With its sponsorship programme Los pilares de Vitoria-Gasteiz,
Fundación Catedral Santa María competed in the artistic-historical
heritage category. This initiative, which was recognised yesterday,
allows companies to form part of the project to recover the church in
Vitoria by symbolically adopting one of the 18 pillars that support it.
Competing with Fundación Catedral Santa María were outstanding Spanish
institutions in the heritage area, such as Fundación Santa María la
Real, which won the award for its ambitious encyclopaedia of Romanesque
Spanish in the Iberian Peninsula. Other finalists were Fundación
Atapuerca, with its outstanding sponsorship and patronage programme,
and Fundación del Patrimonio Histórico Artístico in Castile and Leon,
with its competition for secondary school and vocational training
students.
The AEDME awards for
entrepreneurial sponsorship and patronage, which on this occasion have
been sponsored by Banco Santander with the support of the Community of
Madrid, have reached their eighteenth consolidated year as the premiere
awards with the greatest influence in the area of philanthropy and
social responsibility in our country.
The awards were launched in 1991, the year in which the optimistic,
enterprising spirit of the Barcelona Olympics encouraged their
creation. The boom in corporate social responsibility in recent years
has added to their fame and made them one of the most distinguished
awards in this area in Spain.
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