Abertis has become a Corporate Sponsor of the Catalan Red Cross’s Centre For Peace, following the signing of an agreement between abertis Managing Director Salvador Alemany and the President of the Catalan Red Cross, Joan Badia. With this agreement, which was signed yesterday evening at the Centre for Peace, abertis will lend its support to the organisation’s activities for the 2005-2006 academic year.

The activities of the Centre for Peace for the aforementioned period include the implementation of the Artists for Peace Programme, the creation of the Documentation Centre of the Catalan Red Cross and the Centre for Peace, as well as events around Catalonia in support of Disarmament Week, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Human Rights Day, World Peace Day, Africa Day, World Refugee Day and Peace Week. Specific web pages on some of theses subjects will also be designed.

The Catalan Red Cross’s Centre for Peace has been active for a year now as a fixed, stable public space dedicated to the promotion of humanitarian values and the culture of peace, and to transmitting them to society by means of study, entertainment and recreational activities. The organisation operates on a decentralised bases through 101 local and district assemblies of the Catalan Red Cross.

The agreement signed yesterday forms part of the corporate social responsibility policy of abertis, Spain’s leading private mobility and communications infrastructure management corporation. Its strategy in the field places the priority on people, the environment and culture. To these end, abertis forms part of the UN Global Compact and adheres to its ten principles and actions in the field of human rights, labour, environment and the fight against corruption. As part of the agreement, abertis will receive advice from the Red Cross to ensure compliance with the principles of the Global Compact in the countries in which the corporation carries on its activities.