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169 GRI Index and Assurance statement Engaged citizen Fair partner Responsible banker Human Capacity Report Sustainability management Overview Foreword Future outlook and Sustainability Program Corporate citizenship initiatives The RBI Group will also continue to make a contribution to improving the living conditions of as many people as possible by supporting projects and initiatives. Our commitment is made in accordance with the group values in the areas of (financial) education, culture and sport as well as social affairs. Projects with longstanding cooperation partners will be continued, including at the network banks. In the coming year, the focus of corporate volunteering at head office in Vienna will be on the financial education projects “Deloitte/RBI Finance & Accounting School” and ”ERG Donaustadt“ (see page 155). The interest of employees in both projects should be maintained to the greatest extent possible. The first corporate volunteering deployments of Raiffeisen Centrobank AG for the Caritas House “Arja” will be carried out in 2017. The financial education projects, such as the cooperation with the Junior Achievement foundation, the “RBCZ Ambassadors” initiative or “Frag den Experten” (Ask the Expert), will also be continued (see page 145). The RBI Group will generally pay more attention to recording the input/output of its projects in 2017 so that in future it can specify aspects such as the number of engaged employees and hours worked. 2017 is the anniversary year of the H. Stepic CEE Charity. Now in its tenth year, the charity is once again focusing its energy on people in need and on paying them attention, collecting contributions and using these entirely for the benefit of those in need. This has resulted, for example, in two new, large-scale projects being established in order to be able to help people seeking refuge in Bulgaria and Serbia as quickly as possible. Numerous cultural projects are also being supported. 2017 marks the 300th birthday of Maria Theresia, who is having an exhibition dedicated to her personality in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The Albertina in Vienna is showing the first monographic exhibition to present the work of the painter Raphael. The successful collaboration with the Theater an der Wien – the chamber opera – will be continued for the 2017/18 season. Tatra banka, a.s. plans to be the main sponsor of the Slovakian national gallery in 2017. In sport, Raiffeisen has been the main sponsor of the Austrian national soccer team since 2003, which will be fighting in 2017 to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. “Raiffeisen Klimaschutz-Initiative” (Raiffeisen Climate Protection Initiative) The ”Raiffeisen Klimaschutz-Initiative” celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2017. In order to prepare for this joyful occasion, the resources required to implement this event will be pooled in 2017. It will be accompanied by a major content-driven project, which will be presented during the event. This means that only selected cooperations will be implemented in 2017. Priority projects for 2017 include, for example, the “Sustainability Weeks” carried out in the SV staff restaurants at the Raiffeisen institutions together with the SV Group. A vehicle fleet assessment will also be conducted as in previous years and the personalized results will be sent to the members of the “Raiffeisen Klimaschutz-Initiative”. An essential selected cooperation in the interest of a long-term partnership is the “Raiffeisen Sustainability Award”, which will also be continued and supervised this year in conjunction with “Jugend Innovativ” (Youth Innovative).


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