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The abertis foundation today launched a road safety action in Madrid and Barcelona focused on the busiest nightlife areas of both cities. With the aim of making people enjoying a night out aware of the potentially fatal consequences of irresponsible behaviour, a group of volunteers with spinal cord injuries as a result of a traffic accident will remind people of the danger of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, as well as distractions at the wheel. This (...)

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A thesis entitled Characterisation and modelling of operating speed on conventional roads using naturalistic observation of light vehicles by Dr Ana María Pérez Zuriaga has won the 10th abertis Prize for Research into Transport Infrastructure Management, awarded by the abertis chair-UPC. The award is given in recognition of  the best doctoral thesis by a student at a university in Spain.    In the (...)

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  The abertis foundation is one of the main sponsors of the major Dalí retrospective that will open this Saturday at the Reina Sofía in Madrid. The exhibition is entitled Dalí. All of the poetic (...)

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Disabled drivers with a valid driving licence and disability card issued by the Department of Social Welfare and Family Affairs of the Generalitat of Catalonia are entitled to a free VIA-T device and other special benefits.  This pioneering joint initiative involves abertis autopistas,the abertis foundation, the Department of Social Welfare and Family Affairs, the Red Cross, the Guttman Institute, ONCE and the Ecom Federation.  The (...)

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The project, in progress since last year, has been extended to four schools in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district with the aim of improving road safety around schools while at the same time integrating young people affected by Down syndrome or other intellectually disabled people in the workplace. Eight "road safety education collaborators" will observe the behaviour of drivers and pedestrians when arriving at the school. Apart from the two schools that (...)

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Castellet castle, the headquarters of the abertis foundation, is hosting a selection of pieces from the Episcopal Museum of Vic (MEV). This museum boasts a varied and exceptional collection. As of last Thursday, 7 February, visitors have been able to enjoy a selection of pieces that highlight two important aspects of life inside a Catalan castle, such as Castellet castle. The castle chapel A small collection of pieces from (...)

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The abertis Group will today present a new abertis chair in Transport Infrastructure Management, created in conjunction with the University of Chile's Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics. The presentation event will take place this afternoon at the Spanish Embassy in Chile and will be attended by the Ambassador, Íñigo de Palacios; abertis' CEO, Francisco Reynés; the Director of the University of Chile's (...)

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For the fourth year running, abertis has organised this corporate volunteer initiative promoted by the Group's employees. The company's various headquarters throughout the world are hosting assistance and awareness-raising activities focused on the increase in poverty and social exclusion.  abertis' headquarters in Barcelona today hosted the central event of Volunteer Day, with the participation of the  Catalan (...)

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The tenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Prince of Girona (FPdGi) was held at the abertis headquarters -The Castellet Castle- last 26th of November. An event that was presided by Their Majesties the Prince and Princess of Asturias, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia Ortiz. The meeting was attended by the master of the Prince of Girona Foundation and Chairman of abertis foundation and abertis, Salvador Alemany, (...)

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The exhibition, which will move to the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid as of April 2013, offers a unique opportunity to review the work of Salvador Dalí, as it brings together for the first time works held by the three custodians of the artist's legacy, as well as the MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Tate Modern in London. This collaboration provides yet another example of abertis and the abertis (...)

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The winning project of the 1st International abertis Prize for Research and the 9th abertis Prize awarded by the abertis-UPC Chair, by Doctor María Nogal, is entitled Mathematical methods for traffic prediction. The awards ceremony was hosted by the Rector of the UPC, Antoni Giró, in the company of the CEO of abertis, Francisco Reynés, and the Secretary for Territory and (...)

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The abertis foundation collaborates with the Pasqual Maragall Foundation as part of its commitment to society, the main objective of which is to help the latter continue with the scientific and technological innovation research it is conducting in order to improve the diagnosis, treatment and cure of Alzheimer's disease and other related neurodegenerative illnesses. The organisation's promoter, Pasqual Maragall, visited Castellet Castle, the (...)

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The abertis chair in Puerto Rico is now a reality. The CEO of abertis, Francisco Reynés, signed the agreement with the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) during an event held on the island, in which the head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Mayagüez Campus (RUM) was appointed director of the chair. Also in attendance were Sergi Loughney, Director of the abertis foundation; Miguel A. Muñoz, President of the University of Puerto (...)

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abertis participated in the "Second Meeting of Young Ibero-American Leaders", a conference organised by the Carolina Foundation in Salvador, the capital of the north-eastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Between the 20th and 22nd of September, and under the title The Future: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 125 young leaders from every Ibero-American country met to speak with various representatives from top Spanish companies. Sergi Loughney, (...)

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The "You've got one life left. Don't lose it on the road" campaign, promoted by the abertis foundation in Spain, is now also being implemented in Chile. Laurence Golborne, Minister of Public Works, kicked off the campaign by handing out information leaflets at the Lo Prado toll booth on the Rutas del Pacífico motorway, which is managed by the abertis group. David Díaz, General Manager of abertis (...)

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The abertis foundation, in collaboration with the Integra Foundation, participated in the Jardín Sobre Ruedas (Preschool on Wheels) project which will allow 80 children from rural and isolated areas of Valparaíso, in Chile, to participate in different learning programmes together with their families, generating a rich educational experience. The Jardín Sobre Ruedas will visit the following four localities once a week between (...)

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  Last 11th of  July, the Director of the abertis foundation, Sergi Loughney, presented at the UNESCO headquarters and to the Adjunct General Manager for Science, Gretchen Kalonji, the Castellet Castle's candidacy as the Spanish headquarters for the Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves. The Permanent Ambassador to UNESCO and the Adjunct Manager and Head of Projection and Development of the Autonomous Organism of National Parks, which depends on the (...)

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Last Friday, the abertis foundation announced that it will take part in the cleaning and regeneration of the Foix Natural Park (Alt Penedès, Barcelona) forest area that was affected by fire on the 12th of June. Salvador Alemany, President of abertis and the abertis foundation, made this announcement during a visit to the fire-affected area with Salvador Esteve, President of the Barcelona Provincial Council, Josep E. (...)

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Today, abertis held a conference on corporate social responsibility companies at Castellet Castle, the headquarters of the abertis foundation. The meeting addressed the issue of the profitability of CSR policies from various points of view, given by experts such as Alan D. Solomont, the US Ambassador to Spain; Susan Solomont, former director of The Philanthropic Initiative; Miguel Ángel García Martín, the Director-General for Self-Employed Work, (...)

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The 3rd Foix Studies Conference was held at Castellet Castle on 31 May. The conference is held every four years, and offer the opportunity to present any studies or research work carried out in the intervening four year period on subjects such as fauna, flora, archaeology, geography etc. The conference is organised by Barcelona City Council and the Foix Park Consortium, an organisation of which the abertis foundation is an active member.

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On occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites, abertis foundation, the Catalan Regional Government's Department of Culture and MACBA Foundation have organised a Seminar entitled Cultural Sponsorship and Patronage: Visions and Innovation in Castellet castle (Barcelona), the abertis foundation headquarters. The seminar was inaugurated by the Catalan Regional Government's Culture Minister, Ferran Mascarell, the director general (...)

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The 'Autoroute Académie' programme for teaching young people about motorway driving is now one year old. In light of the positive response to the website, the abertis foundation and sanef wish to go a step further by offering content aimed at young French motorcyclists.Autoroute Académie is a kind of virtual driving school for motorway driving. The initiative is aimed at drivers aged between 18 and 25, which (...)