148 Further educational initiatives at the Vienna sites Raiffeisen has been supporting and promoting creativity among children and teenagers for 46 years with its International Raiffeisen Youth Competition. In 2016, the competition was entitled “Fantastic Heroes and True Models! Who inspires you?”. Participating countries included Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Italy and Finland. Altogether there were 820,000 submissions with more than 132,000 students participating in the quiz, painting and drawing competition in Austria alone. At the end of the competition, the jury evaluations were held at the local and state level. The work by the winning contestants went on to be judged by an international jury in Luxembourg. In addition, RZB AG has supported the Language Resource Center at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) since 2004. This is a modern facility that offers an ideal environment for independent language learning with a rich selection of learning materials and electronic resources. This facility consists of a self-learning area, two multimedia language labs and a seminar room. Overall, it offers materials in 38 different languages. A program for tandem language learning also enjoys great popularity. This is a form of independent learning in which people with different native languages work together in pairs to learn each other’s languages or improve existing language skills. The partnership between RZB AG and the Vienna University of Economics and Business is about supporting students and the university infrastructure. In this way, RZB AG makes an important contribution to the language education of future managers since language competence is ever more important in a globalized world. “Universities Austria” sees itself as the voice of Austria’s public universities and collectively strengthens their role and purpose in the economy and society. RBI AG has jointly supported this organization together with RZB AG, which has been a partner since 2013. “Universities Austria” formulates demands on business and government and creates stimuli for all areas of society. It supports universities in meeting their duties and strengthens the coordination and expansion of teaching, research and development of arts. Further educational initiatives at the network banks Central Europe (CE) In order to contribute towards improving the educational situation in Slovakia, Tatra banka, a.s. created a foundation in Bratislava in 2004. Alongside the focus on education, projects in the area of art and design are also carried out here. As part of the program “Personalities in Person”, seven Nobel Prize winners and six Pulitzer Prize winners, dozens of renowned professors from abroad and over 80 Slovakian and Czech economists have so far given talks hosted at Slovakian universities. In 2016, Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Nelson accepted the invitation and spoke to approx. 600 students. © Zentrale Raiffeisenwerbung © Tatra Banka Foundation
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