budget La Caixa Foundation will arrive this year The highest level in history with 538 million euros, an increase of 4.5%. Headed by Isidro Fainé, the organization has spent more than ten years dedicating more than 500 million euros to the development of social, scientific, educational and cultural initiatives.
60% of the total investment planned in 2023, with an increase of 23 million compared to 2022, close to 320 million Euros, social transformation programs like Caixa Proinfancia, with the aim of combating child poverty; workforce integration projects Combine and Reassemble; program Comprehensive Care for People with Advanced Diseaseaiming to improve the quality of care for people at the end of their lives; besides the program Old humansto promote the social participation of this group.
Under this section, outreach calls for social projects will receive a grant of 45 million euros. €112 million, 21% of the total investment, will go to initiatives to disseminate culture and science through a network of CaixaForum centres.
Investigation
The Foundation’s Research and Health area will invest €62 million, 11% of the total budget. Calls to support medical research projects CaixaImpulse Health And CaixaImpulse Innovationas well as future development Caixa Research InstituteA scientific reference center promoted by the Foundation in Barcelona is among the items in this block.
Finally, the remaining 8% of the organization’s investment in 2023, €44 million, education and scholarshipspromoting undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and the program Educatepromotes educational transformation to ensure quality education through the development of appropriate skills in both students and the entire teaching community.
Isidro Faine He emphasizes: “In difficult times just like right now, we need to be closer to society as a whole, and to people who are particularly vulnerable. At the center of our concerns are people and the well – the very existence of their lives.” And he added that the foundation’s aim is “simply, social and human development, collective progress, and the well-being of every individual who is accepted and treated as an individual.”
In 2022, the La Caixa Foundation as its managing director Antonio Vila Bertrancontinued to “develop as a priority” strategic programs with social impact and transformative impact It faces main problems”, according to the side. One of the activities last year was cooperation to facilitate the admission of Ukrainian refugees into Spanish families.