Committed to inclusive, fair and quality education

The Fundación Espriu has been working on this goal for many years and many hospitals belonging to ASISA are universities. The insurance company has also reached agreements with different universities and a network of university chairs has been created to promote the dissemination of the knowledge, innovation and technological transfer. In 2018, it signed a collaboration agreement with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, aimed at working together in the medical ethics field.

They also annually give study fellowships for healthcare professionals who wish to extend their studies. Last year, there were over 470 applications for the Assitència Sanitària fellowships. The endowment distributed out amongst the 32 students who obtained the fellowship was 31,588 euros, making up a total of 310,000 euros accumulated since the academic year 2008-9, when the programme was created.

The cooperative company is also seeking the excellence of all their professionals by programming medical seminars with different specialities throughout the year and putting the spotlight on subjects with particular scientific relevance. In 2019, Assitència Sanitària held three seminars: the first one on Pregnancy Pathology, with the participation of over a hundred specialists in gynaecology and neonatology. This was followed by another on Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology and the third seminar was on End of Life Care.

COLLABORATION WITH ACNUR

Aware of the need to promote quality education in under-developed and conflict-torn countries, Assitència Sanitària collaborates with the United Nations agencies for refugees (ACNUR and UNRWA) and the Generalitat de Cataluña, bringing healthcare cover to students from Syria, Palestine and Pakistan who will continue their studies in Spanish universities. Through Assistència Sanitària in 2018, due to this initiative 18 students could enrol in different Catalan universities to be able to continue their studies that had been cut short by wars.

DATA

• Enrolment in primary education in developing countries has reached 91%, but 57 million school-age children still do not attend school.
• 750 million adults are still illiterate. Two thirds of these are women.
• Over half of the schools in Sub-Saharan Africa have no access to drinking water services or installations for hand washing.