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 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.
As part of its social responsibility as a firm, Ergon joined “Run to KICK”, a family charity run in Brussels, organized by KickCancer foundation on 29 September 2019.
“We are proud to support such a noble cause and happy to have put together a team that brought their personal commitment and contribution.” declared Wolfgang de Limburg, Managing Partner.
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.
Ergon has cut down its plastic use firm-wide, eliminating the plastic water bottles in all of its offices, by installing water dispensers and introducing glass bottles.
“Our goal is to make our working space an environmentally friendly one”, said, Wolfgang de Limburg and Emanuele Lembo, Managing Partners.
