The BNP Paribas Foundation
Creating opportunities – removing obstacles
Shaping tomorrow – together: in 2025, the BNP Paribas Foundation celebrated its 10-year anniversary. The German foundation of the BNP Paribas Group was founded in 2015. It supports projects in the areas of education, solidarity, personality development through art and culture, as well as in the area of environmental and climate protection throughout Germany. More than 120,000 people have benefited from grants from the BNP Paribas Foundation since its inception.
10 years of BNP Paribas Foundation, 10 years of commitment
For a fairer society
BNP Paribas Foundation’s vision is for all children and young people to have the same opportunity to discover their own strengths and talents in order to be able to develop and flourish in the best possible way.
We have made it our goal to systematically confront and remove obstacles that exist due to social disadvantage, refugee backgrounds or disabilities. This also includes conserving the environment in which these young people live.
The BNP Paribas Foundation designs its work in accordance with the principles of good foundation practice.
Selection of funded projects
In the learning cascade, adolescents – , accompanied by university students –, support their younger classmates in learning. Those who participate receive intensive courses from qualified students as a reward. The learning cascade improves educational opportunities, awakens the joy of learning, and strengthens personal competencies, especially for children and teenagers with difficult backgrounds.
At the Children’s Opera House, children from five Berlin districts develop small opera productions in working groups that are supervised by the State Opera and the participating schools. For many of the children, this is their first contact with (classical) music, singing, and the stage. The Children’s Opera House gives them the opportunity to understand artistic processes and to create their own perspectives in the performed pieces.
Photo: Staatsoper Unter den Linden / Jakob Tillmann
The programme addresses today’s challenges faced by young women through a versatile offering that includes financial education, networking, peer counseling, coaching, and financial support. The measures strengthen the participants, who are young women both with and without disabilities. Participants are offered opportunities for educational paths and are assisted in their personal development.
Together with the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the foundation offers the educational programme Kids research in Munich. It supports pedagogical specialists and teachers in guiding children of kindergarten and primary school age in discovering, researching, and learning. By professionalising the teaching staff, the programme improves educational opportunities in the region and promotes interest in STEM fields.
With its annual Help2Help campaign, BNP Paribas Foundation supports charitable organisations in which employees of BNP Paribas Germany volunteer, in this way supporting the social engagement of the workforce.
The BNP Paribas Group has been supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide through the Rescue & Recover Fund since 2012. With this fund, BNP Paribas collects donations and matches them with its own funds to finance projects of NGO partner organisations.
“The mission of the BNP Paribas Foundation is to ensure that young people’s backgrounds and personal biographies do not hinder their development and life chances and that they can look to the future with confidence.”
Sonja Alt, BOARD MEMBER OF THE FOUNDATION
Activity Report 2025
The anniversary year 2025 was again very successful for the BNP Paribas Stiftung. In numerous diverse projects, the foundation was able to further pursue its goals and contribute to creating equal opportunities for young people.
In its Activity Report, the foundation reports in detail every year on its activities and current funding projects.
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