To coincide with International Volunteer Day, on Sunday 5 December, abertis has today held its second Corporate Volunteer Day, this year focused on raising disability awareness among the Group’s workers. The day, which this time round has the slogan “Another way of doing things”, forms part of the Corporate Volunteer programme, Voluntaris, which the company has been carrying out since 2009.

The Ministry of the Interior has awarded the Silver Road Safety Medal of Merit to the abertis foundation, at the proposal of the Directorate General for Traffic, in recognition of its "special contribution to the improvement of road safety in our country and its firm commitment to road safety values and their dissemination". The First Vice-President of the Government and Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, presented the award to the President of the Foundation, Miquel Roca i Junyent, at a ceremony held at the Ministry’s headquarters yesterday afternoon.

abertis was today awarded the first Honos prize by the Catalan Institute for Classical Archaeology (ICAC). With this prize, the ICAC recognises abertis‘ policy of safeguarding the protection of archaeological heritage, fostering on-site research and excavations, promoting studies and collaborating with university and research institutions.

In the context of European Mobility Week, from 16th to 22nd September, the abertis foundation and FESVIAL (the Spanish road safety foundation) organised a study of “drivers and ecological, efficient driving” to find out about the habits of Spanish drivers and how aware and informed this group is of the issues. The research consisted of a survey of 1,575 habitual drivers from all over Spain. The full report, which also includes results for the autonomous regions of Spain, can be consulted at www.fundacionabertis.org.

The results of the 2010 Review confirm that abertis has retained its listing in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI World) and also, on a European level, the DJSI Stoxx Index.

The abertis foundation is to set in motion next weekend a campaign to raise awareness among drivers under 30 years old in the Madrid region of the risks involved in driving. Young drivers who give negative results in alcohol checks will be rewarded with the cultural Madrid Card. The scheme, under the slogan “You’ve got one life left. Don’t lose it on the road,” is part of the foundation’s Road Safety Programme and has the support of the  Ministry of the Interior, the provincial delegation of the government, the general traffic directorate, Madrid city council, the Red Cross, the Toledo paraplegic Hospital, Microsoft and different companies in the abertis group.

The campaign was presented this afternoon at the government delegation in Madrid by Amparo Valcarc