• The BNP Paribas Foundation has created Dream Up an educational programme with the aim of contributing to the social inclusion of children and young people through the learning and regular practice of artistic expression activities.
  • Applications for the programme, which has already supported more than 50,000 children in 29 countries, are open between 15 January and 29 February.

BNP Paribas in Portugal announces the opening of applications for the 4th edition of Dream Up, which takes place from 15th January to 29th February. This educational programme aims to promote the social inclusion of children and young people at risk of exclusion (whether due to social background or physical condition) by learning and regularly practising artistic expression activities, such as music, singing, dance and drama, as a complement to their formal schooling. For this purpose, an annual donation of 20,000 euros will be made over the next three school years, making a total of 60,000 euros, to which can be added other donations in kind and through Corporate Volunteering, carried out by the Bank’s more than 8,000 employees in Portugal, who are available to support both the associations and the children and young people, through study support, for example.

Learning and practising performative and visual activities from an early age favours self-knowledge, communication, creativity and many other essential skills in the training of each person. Dream Up gives the opportunity to access and develop their potential in areas of artistic expression for hundreds of children and young people in situations of social vulnerability. It’s a programme that plays a fundamental role by achieving our corporate social responsibility objectives in Portugal. To this extent, we are very excited to be launching its 4th edition which, in its 12 years of existence, has already supported more than 3,000 children and young people, thus contributing to a society that wants to be more inclusive

Luciana Peres, head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity and Inclusion at BNP Paribas Portugal.

Launched for the first time in 2015 by the BNP Paribas Foundation, Dream Up is an international programme that covers 29 countries and currently has 30 active projects. Its purpose is to take art, origins, stories and culture as a starting point for structured and sustained educational practice, helping participants to develop critical thinking, storytelling, cooperation, teamwork, as well as project management skills that will help them throughout their personal and professional lives.

The BNP Paribas Foundation’s ambition is to provide long-term support for the talents, innovative projects and personalities who will help change the world, giving them visibility and making their projects sustainable, whether cultural, social or environmental.

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BNP Paribas Portugal has won the Prémios RH 2022 in the category “Diversity and Inclusion”, for its work in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion. The award was presented in the gala of the 15th edition of the Prémios RH 2022.

​The award was the recognition of the strategy of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) defined for the national territory for the three years 2022-2025, through several actions and projects developed in Portugal over 2022:

  1. Diversity Week. In this year’s edition, the main goal was to understand how technology, and the resources that we have available, can better serve Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The event registered over 1,400 participants.
  • In support of the creation and implementation of the Diversity Week programme, but also in other activities, the HR and DEI team works very closely with the Employee Networks. Together they share every opportunity to contribute to an equal environment where each individual can be authentic and have equal access: Pride, Together by Mix City, All Abroad, Women in Cyber and Bold.
  • Recently, BNP Paribas distinguish itself as the first company in Portugal to be associate with the feminist and humanist movement #JamaisSansElles by signing its letter of principles by its Top Management team members individually.
  • As a signatory to the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Global Business and Disability Network Charter, BNP Paribas promotes the employment of disabled people, sets out measures to ensure employment retention and encourage universal accessibility. In Portugal, it has worked with partner organisations to increase the number of candidates and inclusion in the world of work.
  • To ensure that the inclusion culture it is implemented throughout the Bank, an Inclusive Management Development and Combating Unconscious Environments Programmes were developed for its entire leadership team in Portugal, covering more than 900 leadership teams’ members.
  • In order to implement projects in a cross-cutting manner to all its business entities and functions, BNP Paribas defined a diversity governance model dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion involving representatives of all teams and collaborating communities, thus applying the values by which it is governed.

“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are fundamental values of the BNP Paribas Group. This award leaves us very proud with what BNP Paribas has been doing for many years not only at global level, but also at a local level. This comes as an extra motivation so that we continue doing our work in this area, which can always improve through the results achieved internally, but also through our relationship with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders with whom we conduct our daily activities. Special thanks to all our staff, who are the driving force and the first ambassadors of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of BNP Paribas, and also to the whole organization and jury of the Prémios HR 2022, who present us the to share our work”, says Luciana Peres, Head of CSR and Diversity & Inclusion at BNP Paribas Portugal.

“This award not only reinforces the important role that DE&I has for BNP Paribas, and for its employees, but is also further proof of the Bank’s existing multidisciplinary strategy and policy of human resources, which has always the potential of ensuring the best possible conditions for the integration and retention of current and future employees of the Group”, explains Sylvie Le Pottier, Head of HR at BNP Paribas Portugal.

The Prémios RH, organised by the IIRH – Instituto de Informação em Recursos Humanos and RHmagazine, gather the entire human resources community in Portugal once a year, to celebrate excellence in the exercise of their profession, recognise individual and collective achievements.

​This was the first annual Portuguese award in this sector, where public recognition of the merit and excellence of those who stand out in the management of people has contributed to strengthening the importance of this area in the business world.

BNP Paribas is the first company in Portugal to integrate the movement through its Top Managemnt Team.

Lisbon, 10 November 2022– Today BNP Paribas Portugal Top Management Team signs, individually, the letter of the movement #JamaisSansElles that acts in favor of equality in all areas of society and for a shared governance model.

Launched in Paris in 2016, #JamaisSansElles is a humanist movement, promoted by about 1000 signatories’ men and women, entrepreneurs, humanists, references from the digital world and the media, as well as people linked to the education sector and politics, who, used to participate in public discussions and events, and now refuse to participate in panel discussions/debates in which women are not included.

The #JamaisSansElles is present in 20 countries, influencing, on average, about 23 million people monthly through the different actions of the movement. 630,000 commitments have already been made on social networks, and 30 events have been organized by the #JamaisSansElles organization.

“In France, BNP Paribas was a pioneer by joining #JamaisSansElles, so in Portugal, we also wanted to make our mark, as the issue of gender equality has guided BNP Paribas’ actions for several years. We want to underline this position in Portugal and contribute for a sustainable society where men and women have equal opportunities that may arise during their careers”, says Fabrice Segui, CEO of BNP Paribas in Portugal.

The signing of the movement’s principles was celebrated on November 10 with the presence of Caroline Courtin, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Natacha Quester-Séméon, Managing Director and Spokesperson of #JamaisSansElles and Tatiana F. Salomon, Association President of #JamaisSansElles. “We are the first company to sign this letter of commitment in Portugal with #JamaisSansElles, but we hope that other organisations will do so in the future by contributing to the reach of one of the 17 sustainable development objectives of 2030: Gender Equality“, says Luciana Peres, Director of CSR and Diversity and Inclusion at BNP Paribas.

More than 15 years ago, BNP Paribas Group created a dedicated Committee of 40 Diversity Directors, representing the 68 countries where it operates and all business lines. Today, one-third of the Executive Committee and G100 members are women, with the bank aiming to reach a 40% representation of women by 2025.

BNP Paribas was one of the first companies to sign the Women Empowerment Principles (WEP)” in partnership with the HeForShe of the UN, which promotes gender equality worldwide by mobilizing men to work for this cause.

Luciana Peres, Head of CSR and Diversity & Inclusion for BNP Paribas in Portugal, has spoken to Expresso about Sustainable Mobility and the Group´s commitments in Portugal. Read the full article here.

Diversity Week represents the highlight of every year for BNP Paribas in Portugal and all of its employees to actively promote and contribute to the Group’s Diversity and Inclusion strategy and goals.

The 6th edition of the BNP Paribas Diversity Week in Portugal took place from 11 to 15 October 2021, featuring 5 days of inspirational workshops, debates and panel discussions available to all Group employees. Focusing on celebrating our differences and a positive mental health, the event aimed to raise awareness and create an open dialogue on fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Discover insights below by Fabrice Segui, Head of Territory | BNP Paribas Portugal; Arturo John, Head of Alerts Management | Compliance Hub; Cláudia Batista, Head of Securities Transactions Management | Securities Services Portugal; Andrea Madrid, Data Analyst | RISK Hub and José Pedro Pinto, Chief Marketing & Sales | Cetelem, as they reflect on Diversity and Inclusion at BNP Paribas in Portugal.

Launched by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the Net-Zero Alliance gathers efforts within the financial sector to achieve the objectives of the Paris agreement and foster a common net zero carbon commitment.

Fully aligned with its commitment to fight climate change, BNP Paribas strengthens the pursuit of positive environmental impacts by joining such an impactful agreement, reinforcing sustainable finance and responsible banking as key strategic drivers.

This alliance, as part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and chaired by Mark Carney (UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance) preceding COP26, is hosted by the Collective Commitment to Climate Change along with the entire financial system and wants to ensure a global zero emissions economy by committing to:

 

 

According to Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, Director and Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas, ‘The signing of a common net zero carbon commitment, with intermediate targets, is a decisive step in the financial sector’s mobilisation in the defense of our climate. It sends a strong signal to all stakeholders, and provides a methodological basis for action, as well as a cultural lever for the environmental transition of banks and their customers.”

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BNP Paribas in Portugal renews the environmental certification ISO 14001:2015, obtained in 2017, which now covers four buildings and seven entities of the Group in Portugal.

Lisbon, 03 March 2021 – In a clear demonstration of its commitment in reducing the carbon footprint also in our country, since globally BNP Paribas is Carbon Neutral since 2017, BNP Paribas in Portugal has received the renovation of its environmental certification ISO 14001:2015, firstly obtained in 2017. It includes now a total of four buildings where business activity is developed, covering seven entities of the Group.

This certification, assigned by APCER, encompasses all activities, services and products of BNP Paribas, Securities Services, Personal Finance (operating under the brand Cetelem), Cardif, Leasing Solutions, Factor and ITP, at the buildings ART’S, Gago Coutinho #26 and Torre Ocidente – Colombo, in Lisbon, and URBO, in Matosinhos.

“The certification is the result of a strong strategic planning on the business areas involved, which implied the study of the environmental impact under a perspective of the financial products life-cycle and the identification of risks and opportunities which the environmental changes represent to their businesses”, highlights Patricia Freixo, Environmental Manager at Group BNP Paribas Portugal.

In this regard, the implementation of the Environmental Management System of BNP Paribas Securities Services, the first Entity of the Group certified in Portugal, was, at the time, an important step on the way the organization manages the environmental impacts directly caused by the usage of buildings, whose impacts have been decreasing since then. On the first three years, from 2017 and 2019, it was possible to accomplish the following results:

  • -15% in consumption of electric energy by employee;
  • -66% in consumption of print paper by employee;
  • -37% in consumption of water by employee;

In a pandemic context, sustainability remains a priority

Given the current pandemic context, although there is still a significant reduction in the consumption of resources and in the production of waste and CO2 emissions, BNP Paribas is aware that this is a temporary measure not losing by so, the focus on the maintenance of the good results.

During 2020, the organisation continued to monitor the environmental development and to look for solutions to assure the continuity of the improvements and ensure that these will remain when “normal life” returns. In addition, and considering the specific situation we are living in, it has been searching for better solutions to take care of the impacts of the pandemic in the facilities management, having already developed a differentiated system for the waste management of surgical masks at the office and assuring the provision through a Portuguese company, in order to encourage local and family economy and avoid the ecological footprint caused by the importation of such articles.

Environmental Management at the centre of the local strategy

Through the development of its programme under the name of Cooler Planet by BNP Paribas Portugal, with which it proposes, since 2018, to contribute to the commitment of Portugal on the carbon neutrality until 2050, several innovative solutions have been adopted to better manage the impacts of its People and Buildings, of the Products and Services offered to its Clients and on the production of positive Impacts on Society, namely through the offset of part of the CO2 locally produced.

For 2021, BNP Paribas is developing its own strategy of urban sustainable mobility, with the goal of finding solutions to reduce the impacts of its employees commuting as an answer to its local assumed commitments, namely the “Pact of Entrepreneurial Mobility for the City of Lisbon” and the “Commitment Climate Action 2030”.

About the ISO 14001:2015

The ISO 14001 is an international standard, recognised all over the world and, for that reason, it is important to value and give credibility to the actions and efforts of the Bank in this area. It represents a long-term commitment to the good environmental practices, subject to regular evaluations, conducted through audits, being an important tool to mitigate the indirect environmental aspects, influencing the adoption of good practices by other entities, namely suppliers and clients.

Abertura de candidaturas em Portugal de 22 de Fevereiro a 21 de Março.

Lançado pela primeira vez em 2015 pela Fundação BNP Paribas, o programa educativo DreamUp promove a inclusão social de crianças e jovens em risco de exclusão, pelo contexto social que integram ou por terem uma condição física (como deficiência motora ou intelectual), através da aprendizagem e prática regular de atividades de expressão artística. Ao longo das duas edições anteriores, O DreamUp já possibilitou a mais de 50 mil crianças e jovens o acesso à aprendizagem de artes performativas e visuais, tais como a música, o canto, a dança e a expressão dramática, como complemento à sua escolarização formal.

A ambição da Fundação BNP Paribas é apoiar a longo prazo os talentos, projetos inovadores e as personalidades que ajudarão a mudar o mundo, dando-lhes visibilidade e tornando os seus projetos sustentáveis, sejam eles culturais, sociais ou ambientais.

Através deste programa internacional, que abrange 30 países onde o Grupo BNP Paribas está presente, pretende-se produzir um impacto positivo na sociedade, pelos resultados benéficos que a prática de atividades artísticas exerce nos processos de aprendizagem e socialização, bem como no desenvolvimento pessoal das crianças e jovens, aumentando-lhes o sentido de responsabilidade, a autonomia e a autoconfiança – elementos-chave para evitar o abandono escolar precoce e a consequente marginalização.

Perante o sucesso das duas edições anteriores, a Fundação decidiu agora lançar a terceira edição do programa, que vigorará durante os três próximos anos letivos. Em cada país abrangido será apoiado um único projeto, a ser selecionado localmente e sujeito à validação final pela Comissão Executiva da Fundação BNP Paribas. O projeto selecionado beneficiará de um donativo anual de 20.000 euros, durante os três anos da sua vigência.

 

Em Portugal, as candidaturas para esta terceira edição decorrem entre 22 de fevereiro e 21 de março de 2021. Consulte abaixo o regulamento e aceda ao formulário de candidatura, assim como à informação sobre as anteriores edições do programa.

Luciana Peres, Head of CSR and Diversity & Inclusion at BNP Paribas in Portugal, and Carla Jorge da Costa, Head of Recruitment and Talent Sourcing in Portugal, have shared with the Portuguese TV show Imagens de Marca the main principles and the most relevant projects in place.

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