Partners of the International Polar Foundation
A donor can choose to become a "partner" by helping the IPF as a whole or by sponsoring a specific project. Some of our partners chose to help us in the form of services or equipment.
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Belgacom
Belgacom is a telecommunications company in Belgium and an important player in a number of areas, including retail and wholesale fixed-line telephony services, mobile communications services, broadband data and Internet services. At year end on 31 December 2004, the Group posted a total revenue of EUR 5,540 million and an operating income before depreciation and amortization (excluding non-recurring items) of EUR 2,394 million.
Belgacom is committed to operating in an environmentally sustainable way. It is providing substantial support to the IPF - demonstrating its commitment to addressing climate change.
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SWIFT
SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect over 8,500 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 200 countries.
SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies.
SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.
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The Edmond & Benjamin de Rothschild Foundations
The tradition and guiding principles of the Edmond and Benjamin de Rothschild Foundations, handed down from generation to generation, have always rested on an absolute commitment to solidarity, social responsibility and the advancement of knowledge. Education is first and foremost their mandate. It benefits the individual and the community, the material and the spiritual, the present and the future. It begins and continues with the sharing of information, values and experience. In the sciences, in the arts and in business.
Amongst the undertakings to which the Edmond and Benjamin de Rothschild Foundations have been committed to for many years, safeguarding the planet and supporting new ideas have been prime objectives. This twin vocation is also shared by the International Polar Foundation which has therefore been supported by the Edmond and Benjamin de Rothschild Foundations ever since its creation.
