2012 Registration document and annual financial report - BNP Paribas

A RESPONSIBLE BANK: INFORMATION ON BNP PARIBAS’ ECONOMIC,SOCIAL, CIVIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY“Civic” responsibility: helping to combat social exclusion and promoting education and culture7Supporting danceTrue to its commitment to contemporary dance and the newcircus arts, BNP Paribas and its Foundation have, since 2012, beensupporting choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and circus artistsYoann Bourgeois and Phia Ménard in their creative projects. 2012was also the start date for a completely new partnership with theMontpellier Dance Festival in France, now one of Europe’s keychoreography events; this commitment takes the form of supportfor artist residences. In addition, the Foundation is renewing itssupport for the Kadmos network which, coordinated by the AvignonFestival in France, facilitates the circulation of works and artists inthe Mediterranean.Committing to musiciansThe attention that BNP Paribas has given to jazz for more than 15years is spreading beyond our borders: the BNP Paribas Foundationhas committed for the second year running to the North Sea JazzFestival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by supporting the educationalside of this event, and the Paul Ackett Award, which is given to ayoung talent in contemporary jazz. The second largest event of itskind in the world, the North Sea Jazz Festival also benefits from thesupport of BNP Paribas in the Netherlands.BNP Paribas supporting art and designBNL has partnered Palaexpo, the entity responsible for organisingmajor exhibitions for the city of Rome. Three major exhibitions arebeing held during cultural events in Rome from September 2012 toMarch 2013. BNL is linking up with Palaexpo as the main sponsor,offering its support to the exhibitions “Vermeer, the golden centuryof Dutch painting”, “Robert Doisneau, Paris liberated”, and “The silkroad, ancient pathways between East and West”.In 2012, HEAD-Geneva (the Geneva University of Art and Design)and BNP Paribas Foundation Switzerland joined forces to set upthe NEW HEADS-BNP Paribas Foundation Art Awards intendedto support young artists graduating from HEAD-Geneva, who areamong the most promising of their generation. For the first edition,HEAD-Geneva and the BNP Paribas Foundation Switzerland askedGiovanni Carmine, Commissioner of Exhibitions and current Directorof the Kunsthalle St.Gallen, to select a dozen artists from HEAD-Geneva Visual Arts MA students and to design an exhibition, heldin September 2012 at LiveInYourHead, HEAD-Geneva’s CuratorialInstitute.As part of its “BNP Paribas pour l’Art” programme launched in 1994,the BNP Paribas Foundation is stepping up its involvement withmajor international museums. Thanks to its support, the NationalGallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Torontoand the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona were ableto present restorations of three masterpieces in 2012: The crossingof the Red Sea by Nicolas Poussin, Jar of Apricots by Jean-BaptisteChardin and The conversio n of Saint Paul by Juan Bautista Maíno.Finally, the BNP Paribas Foundation also supports several climateresearch programmes, described in the section “Our environmentalresponsibility”.EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN CORPORATEPHILANTHROPY WORKAccording to three surveys (1) conducted in 2011 and 2012, 88% of companyemployees endorse the voluntary activities initiated by their employer,80% are prepared to get involved and 30% declare themselves to bevolunteers.BNP Paribas staff lead the way among employees wanting commitmentfrom their company, and help with participating in charity workthemselves. The BNP Paribas Foundation facilitates their personalinitiatives and the Group offers them numerous opportunities to getinvolved.The BNP Paribas Foundation encourages the commitment of Groupemployees who donate their time and energy to solidarity associationsthrough the “Coup de pouce” programme, which is run in several of thecountries where the Group operates. Belgium, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg,Switzerland, Morocco and Portugal have all launched their ownphilanthropy programmes. In 2012, 235 projects were supportedthroughout the world, involving a total of EUR 737,953. In France, theFoundation appeals for candidates each year and lends its support tonew projects, around 50 on average. This programme, which celebratesits tenth anniversary in 2013, has distributed more than EUR 1 millionto around 500 charity projects in France since it was set up.Skills-based volunteeringTwo associations offer ways for Group staff and pensioners to donatetheir skills:■ MicroFinance Sans Frontières (MFSF), which provides technicalassistance to several microfinance institutions around the world;■ Bénévolat de Compétences et Solidarité (BCS), which, througha network of 650 volunteers in France, supports actions of aneducational, social and economic nature.In 2012, a total of 36,800 hours of voluntary work were coordinated byMFSF and BCS.7(1) Benchmark Fondations IMS – December 2011; Survey DDB& Opinion Way – March 2011; Survey IMS & Le bénévolat & Vous – May 2012.2012 Registration document and annual financial report - BNP PARIBAS 411