The BNP Paribas Foundation
Creating opportunities – removing obstacles
Shaping tomorrow – together: in 2025, the BNP Paribas Foundation celebrates 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 and is a member of the Association of German Foundations.
Selection of funded projects
With the help of artistic, creative and educational activities, Refugio Munich aims to support children and young people with a refugee background in overcoming past traumatic events and thus pave the way to find new joy in life and hope for successful integration, strengthen their self-confidence and give them a new zest for life.
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.
Women with disabilities face double discrimination in the professional world and often do not feel addressed by job advertisements. In order to make it easier for these women to start their careers, the Hildegardis-Verein trains female students with disabilities as so-called InclusionGuides, who strive to initiate concrete changes in companies and develop best practices for a more inclusive work environment.
With its project „Ökologisches und nachhaltiges Handeln lernen“ – Learning to act in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way – the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt pursues the goal of developing innovative and illustrative mediation and teaching concepts that make the content understandable for children in the topics of biodiversity, environmental protection and sustainability.
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 “Welcome” scholarship programme supports Bachelor students at German universities with a history of migration or as a refugee. The scholarship holders receive personal mentoring from lecturers as well as regular further training, access to platforms for personal and digital networking as well as the opportunity to get in touch with different companies at the Career Day.
“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 2024
The year 2024 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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