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Erste Group contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
Erste Group is strongly committed and actively contributes to the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals and Agenda 2030. In 2015 Erste Group signed the UN Global Compact and thus committed to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, including women´s economic empowerment.
Erste Bank Österreich receives CSR TRIGOS Award for its Social Banking Activities
EBOe has received the Social Innovation & Future Challenges award for its Social Banking activities from TRIGOS, the most respected competition in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and social innovation.
Erste Group wins “CEE’s Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility” award from Euromoney
Erste Group Bank AG (Erste Group) has been recognized as “Central and Eastern Europe’s Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility” by Euromoney, one of the leading financial sector publications. In its 2018 Awards for Excellence, Euromoney honoured Erste Group for its region-wide implementation of a social banking programme that seeks to empower and finance social enterprises and addresses the needs of traditionally unbanked or underbanked groups in the CEE region.
Erste Group launches Social Banking programme across CEE region
Erste Group is launching the “Step-by-step” Social Banking programme, aiming to address directly the needs of traditionally unbanked groups of the societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Austria. Erste’s Social Banking programme fosters the financial inclusion of low-income individuals, first-time entrepreneurs and social organisations, offering them fair access to basic financial products, sound money advice and ongoing tailored business mentoring, so that these people can gain the financial confidence needed to improve their lives. The rollout of this Social Banking programme across all seven core markets of Erste Group will be completed by 2019.
Erste Time Bank – The Volunteers Portal of Erste Bank and Sparkassen
Erste Bank Oesterreich and Erste Group Bank, together with their subsidiaries, as well as many of the regional Savings Banks (Sparkassen) take part in the Time Bank initiative which allows employees throughout Austria to volunteer time in their local communities.
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100% Electricity from renewable sources and 40% of the demand from their own hydropower plant
Within Erste Group’s environmental strategy, it is stated that electric energy shall primarily be purchased from 100% renewable sources or – if this is not possible – from a supplier with the lowest CO2 emissions per kWh.
ERSTE Bank Sponsoring VALUE Program
The Sponsoring VALUE Program is ERSTE Bank’s commitment to social responsibility and, moreover, to values that the enterprise deems worthy of support.
Good.bee and Erste Group
good.bee is the Micro-Banking and Social Enterprise Finance business of Erste Group. It was set up by the Erste Foundation and Erste Group in 2008 to develop innovative solutions to break down barriers to financial inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe. The business is currently managed by two good.bee-branded legal entities in Romania and in several countries in CEE as initiatives of Erste Group banks.
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