--- id: 1321 title: "Santander Wins CFI.co Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education, Europe, 2014" award_year: 2014 published: 2014-08-13 14:51:30 published_gmt: 2014-08-13 14:51:30 author: "CFI.co Editorial" url: "https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2014/santander-wins-cfi-co-award-for-outstanding-contribution-to-education-europe-2014/" categories: ["Banking", "Europe"] content_class: award_rationale independence_status: independent_editorial sponsor_disclosure: none editorial_lens: constructive_positive_lens historical_status: current_at_publication correction_status: none archive_policy: no_delete provenance_layer: github_versioned wayback_status: archived wayback_first_snapshot: 20210724004546 wayback_snapshot_url: "http://web.archive.org/web/20210724004546/https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2014/santander-wins-cfi-co-award-for-outstanding-contribution-to-education-europe-2014/" license: CFI-OAAL-1.0 content_sha256: c552b61ccbfa898a16756b066a5918db3a821307e9c5f86891059da49b15ceee canonical: 1321-santander-wins-cfi-co-award-for-outstanding-contribution-to-education-europe-201.json --- # Santander Wins CFI.co Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education, Europe, 2014 > Verbatim archived copy. Canonical machine record: `1321-santander-wins-cfi-co-award-for-outstanding-contribution-to-education-europe-201.json`.

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The CFI.co judging panel is delighted to recognise Banco Santander’s outstanding efforts to support education.

The Santander University programme stands out as an example of how well thought out support can help foster better education and provide real world business experience for students. Since 1996, this banking group has allocated in excess of one billion euros to universities and research centres and last year the figure topped 140 million euros.

The panel comments that, ‘Santander listens to feedback from the academic institutions it partners with and the vision of the Bank’s dynamic Chairman Emilio Botín has made a very real impact on education in Europe.  We feel that this extremely shrewd banker has hit upon a highly desirable symbiotic relationship with universities. Who knows how many students now have accounts with Santander rather than rival banks as a result of this programme? It seems likely the support that the bank is giving to universities will move from strength to strength and that Santander’s financial stakeholders will also do rather well out of the initiative – thus ensuring that the Santander University Programme is truly sustainable’.