Over the last year, the foundation has continued to adapt to an ever-changing environment that has called for important changes in our initiatives to persist in meeting our commitment to spreading culture, supporting vulnerable groups and preserving our natural heritage.

Given the difficulties in organising in-person events, we have brought the Banco Santander Collection to the general public by creating an audiovisual project that breaks the bounds of the art gallery and connects its works with the main challenges facing society, such as energy transition and gender issues.

We also made it possible to hold family concerts by broadcasting them over platforms like YouTube. 

Along the same lines, and with a view to facilitating free access to culture, the foundation website offered educational podcasts on texts in our collection of literary works and from the new Colección Historia Fundamental.

Our social outreach programmes continued to focus particularly on the health, social and economic impacts caused by the pandemic, to which end we managed donations from the solidarity fund set up by the Bank in 2020 to tackle the spread of COVID-19.

The important role the foundation plays in environmental protection was further successfully endorsed by the first call for submissions dedicated to the preservation of marine ecosystems.

Lastly, the difficulties over the last two years caused by the health emergency spurred us on to continue promoting scientific research in collaboration with cutting edge entities.

We sincerely hope our efforts have managed to alleviate in some way the enormous impact the coronavirus has had on society. At the foundation we will continue working to adapt our activity to the needs of the community at all times.