Castellet castle, headquarters of the abertis foundation, today hosted a meeting of the board of the Foundation Consejo España-Estados Unidos, an organisation which fosters cooperation between the two countries and relations in the economic, political and cultural fields. The meeting was chaired by the president of the Catalan government, Artur Mas, the United States ambassador to Spain, Alan Solomont, and the chairman and the managing director of abertis, Salvador Alemany and Francisco Reynés respectively.

The castle of Castellet, headquarters of the abertis foundation, is to host the presentation of the book “Vertebrate Fauna of the Foix Nature Park”, on Thursday 17th March. This publication, the result of a research project financed by the abertis foundation, catalogues 322 vertebrates, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 243 of these species are birds, and it is the reservoir’s richness in bird life which was the main reason for setting up the protected area of the Foix nature park.

Today and tomorrow in Paris the abertis foundation will be presenting the launch of its activities in France with the setting up of a chair in partnership with the École des Ponts ParisTech and IFSTTAR, for training and research in the field of infrastructure management, as well as launching an education programme for young people on motorway driving: Autoroute Académie. This is the third country outside Spain in which the abertis foundation has taken action, having been present in Italy since 2009 and Chile since 2010.

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.