In order to support its portfolio companies in their carbon reduction, Ergon is glad to launch a partnership with the carbon audit firm Carbone 4 whereby all its voluntary portfolio companies will have the opportunity over the next months to attend a carbon training and subsequently collect carbon data and identify carbon reduction priorities.
Such initiative is aligned with Ergon’s commitment to reduce its environmental footprint throughout Europe.
Consistent with its commitment to reduce its environmental impact, Ergon conducted over the past months its first carbon audit throughout its offices in Europe.
On that basis, Ergon is currently working on a carbon reduction plan for the next years.
In addition, Ergon financed the offsetting of its current carbon emissions by financing a reforestation project in Zambia, becoming therefore carbon neutral!
Ergon keeps supporting Dolciaria Acquaviva in pursuing an increasingly eco-sustainable future.
Thanks to its photovoltaic system, Dolciaria Acquaviva generates every year 1.3 million of KW/h of clean energy, substantially reducing the recourse to pollutant sources of energy.
“Through our photovoltaic plant we have generated over 3 million KW/h clean energy in less than 4 years, allowing us to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 1 million Kg and to avoid the consumption of over 6.5k oil barrels” declared Mr. Acquaviva, CEO.
In line with the European Mobility Week initiative, Ergon has encouraged its team members to use “green” transportation means (i.e. public transportation, regular or electric bikes, trotinette, etc.) during the week of 16-22 September 2019.
“At Ergon we embraced the European initiative and sought ways active mobility can benefit our health and environment”, said participating Ergon team members.
Housing represents one of the most pressing and complex challenges for Ukrainians forced to flee their country. These families need proper homes, not just beds. This is a critical step in helping them regain some everyday stability.
In this context, Ergon is joining forces with Airbnb.org, local NGOs and public institutions to launch a pan-European initiative that will host Ukrainian families across Europe and assist in their integration.
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In line with its commitment to support youth & education, Ergon has welcomed 30 young people from the charity MolenGeek to meet with CEOs of its portfolio companies as well as Ergon’s professionals in the context of its first “Ergon Community Day”.
The CEOs and Ergon’s professionals shared with the students general learnings and advice about the professional life and exchanged with them about the key steps of their careers, the choices they had to make, their good and bad experiences, how they dealt with their personal life in parallel, etc.
Ergon Philanthropy announces its financial support to the Spanish charity Fundación Exit.
Fundación Exit is active in reducing school dropout rates of young people facing significant school absenteeism (“at-risk children”) and facilitating their entry in the professional life. Ergon’s grant will support their program “Start Exit” which consists of accompanying at-risk young people during the last 2 years of their secondary education and until they find a job which corresponds to their vocation (through a specific guidance and trainings).
Ergon Philanthropy announces its financial support to MolenGeek.
MolenGeek is helping young entrepreneurs (typically from modest backgrounds) to develop their IT/dev/coding/communication skills. Our grant will support a project called “Digital Content Manager” which is a 6-month training for 23 young entrepreneurs from Charleroi to help them develop their video/video editing/communication skills, in partnership with the Belgian radio-television RTBF.
For the second consecutive year, we organized our “Ergon Challenge”, an internal running event throughout Europe to finance sport equipment for children with cancer.
In total, 1,500 people participated from 26 companies (including 100% of our current portfolio companies, but also previous invested companies as well as LPs) in 12 different countries. 9 hospitals located in all our geographies received sport equipment.
For the third year in a row, Ergon’s professionals from all Ergon’s offices throughout Europe participated to the Run to Kick family race and raised money for research on paediatric cancers.
Similarly to the previous years, Ergon’s in-house foundation, Ergon Philanthropy, is doubling the funds collected by Ergon’s professionals.
Ergon’s local teams, senior advisors and portfolio companies, as well as some of its investors, participated to the Challenge My Hospital to finance sport equipment for children with cancer hospitalized in 7 hospitals throughout Europe.
In total: over 700 participants from 9 countries and 13 companies, and €20,000 donated through Ergon’s in-house foundation, Ergon Philanthropy.
Ergon participated this year again to the Run to Kick challenge: 15 professionals from all Ergon’s offices throughout Europe run and raised money (with the additional financial support of Ergon Philanthropy) for research on paediatric cancers, finishing #2 among corporates in terms of fund raising!
Each year in Europe, there are about 35k new cases of paediatric cancers, which are the first cause of death by disease for children aged over 1 year.
Our short video on why we contributed: https://lnkd.in/ex-Mzay