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Fundación Banco Santander believes in cooperation as a means of fulfilling our mission and objectives. We work on projects in collaboration with other European organizations with the aim of generating knowledge, thinking about and testing solutions to challenges facing our society, such as sustainability, social inclusion, and depopulation. Learn about the European projects we develop with an intersectoral approach between culture and social action.
RELIGHT
The RELIGHT project stems from the realization that Cantabria faces challenges shared with other rural inland areas in southern Europe: the aging and depopulation of rural areas; territorial imbalance, with a greater concentration of resources, employment, and cultural offerings in coastal and urban areas; and governance difficulties, such as poor coordination between large institutions in urban areas and rural communities inland.
RELIGHT is run by a consortium of organizations from Spain, France, and Portugal, led by Fundación Banco Santander, which will seek solutions to these challenges in the three countries. With its launch, Fundación Banco Santander and Fundación Camino Lebaniego aim to contribute to solving these challenges in the Campoo – Los Valles region, taking advantage of the opening or reopening of cultural infrastructure in the region in the coming years (Faro Santander, MUPAC, Archivo Lafuente, La Lechera de Torrelavega).
The project proposes the design and implementation of action plans to boost tourism in rural inland areas, which will be generated in co-creation laboratories with rural communities, connecting urban cultural institutions and agents with rural cultural, tourist, and natural heritage, in four main areas: itineraries for territorial revaluation and actions to enhance cultural and natural heritage (led by the Camino Lebaniego Foundation) and artistic residencies related to the territory and cultural and educational mediation actions with local community actors (led by the Banco Santander Foundation).
Previous projects
CREASUS
Between 2023 and 2026, with the aim of driving sustainable transformation in the cultural industries, Fundación Banco Santander led the CreaSus project. Funded by the European Commission, the project brought together partners from academia, business and organisations representing the cultural sector. Belgium, Italy, Greece, Ireland and Spain were the five countries represented in the working group.
The aim of CreaSus was to develop a set of sustainability indicators across three areas — social, environmental and economic — which formed the basis for a self-assessment tool for the cultural industries.
Based on the results of this assessment, the project designed a series of proposals for sustainable transformation initiatives to help companies improve their performance in the areas analysed. It also provided a list of funding sources for sustainability initiatives and sustainable business models developed specifically for the cultural industries.
To find out more, visit the CreaSus website .