College of benefactors 2011-12

Santander Universities

Saturday 21 January 9:00am

We are delighted to welcome Luis Juste, Director Santander Universities UK, as Santander’s representative to the University of Exeter’s College of Benefactors induction ceremony.

Santander, through its Santander Universities global division, has generously supported the University by funding travel bursaries, studentships and research initiatives – with total funding and pledged support for the University of nearly half a million pounds.

This generous philanthropic funding has supported exchange programmes for both students and academics, research projects, and has provided bursaries for Year Abroad students visiting Latin America and Iberia. Support has also been given to a Mexican research project involving the Graduate School of Education and research in the College of Humanities. In particular, students have received assistance from the Formula Santander Scholarships Programme, an international scholarship and mobility programme for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The wider community has also benefited from the generous backing for the ‘Campus as a Living Laboratory Project’, an environmental programme bringing together students, staff and local residents, with the aim of restoring natural habitats on campus and creating wildlife corridors linking with other green spaces in Exeter.

The relationship that Santander has had with the university sector since 1996 has established itself as one of its hallmarks. Nearly 1,000 academic institutions in America, Asia, Europe and Africa receive support from the bank for the implementation of study programmes, teaching projects, research, and activities to promote the use of new technologies on campus, or to promote the relationship between universities and businesses, amongst others.

Santander supports universities around the world, with initiatives such as the granting of more than 13,000 scholarships and over 9,000 travel bursaries each year to promote study, research, social inclusion and the inflow of students in the labour market.