Santander Universidades

Education and development of science is one of the priorities of the bank’s social activity. The Santander Universidades (SU) project is a key area for us in this respect and is one of the pillars of the #Responsible Banking agenda.

By implementing the programme, we support good quality education, prepare students to enter the labour market and develop the idea of entrepreneurship. We believe that cooperation between business and academia will translate into the development of society and have a positive impact on the economy.

Santander Universidades offer for universities includes:

• Financing scholarships, awards and grants for the best students, doctoral students and academic staff with an aim to support individual development.
• Global grants for students, graduates and university staff – giving the opportunity to take intensive courses developing digital, language and soft skills in an international environment. Some of our programmes are:
  • Summer courses at prestigious universities such as Yale and Georgetown Universities. We believe that international experience significantly increases students’ skills and competences.
  • Online courses focusing on the development of digital and soft skills designed to help young people acquire knowledge and skills and facilitate their entry into the new labour market.
  • Training programs to develop leadership skills – projects that prepare for the requirements and new responsibilities of future leaders in academic, social and business environments.
  • Grant programmes for people aspiring to be entrepreneurs or young entrepreneurs on SantanderX.com
• Financial and non-financial support for conferences, trainings and workshops for the academic community.
• Cooperation with student organisations.

For more information about Santander Universidades go here.

Students, graduates and faculty staff have the opportunity to actively participate in projects implemented on a global scale. An excellent example of such activities are the global Santander Scholarships, thanks to which eleven people from Poland went to the USA for intensive holiday courses, and five people took part in an innovative online project.

During their five-week stay at Yale University, participants could choose courses from over 100 thematic workshops. The student from Poland who took part in the workshops focused on biology.

A two-week multi-disciplinary workshop on key trends affecting social and economic integration. Students worked on projects of innovative solutions, which are expected to help overcome the main challenges of our times.

An international development project for aspiring startuppers. It is carried out in major innovation centres such as Silicon Valley, New York, London, Boston, Mexico and San Diego. It allows participants to gain invaluable experience within a few weeks, which entrepreneurs normally acquire over a course of many years. During the three-week training, participants work in multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative, comprehensive solutions to a selected global challenge. The conceptual work is supported by a group of international mentors and entrepreneurs. The programme also includes seminars with experts, visits to business incubators, accelerators and innovation centres of leading global companies, as well as presentations in front of a panel of international investors.

The scholarship holders took part in two five-week online courses on Digital Skills:

• New Technologies in Innovation – the aim of the course was to present the path of technological development from the point of view of companies and how companies use technologies to create a competitive advantage.
• Data Science and Visualization in Business – practical activities related to developing competences in working with data and its visualization and using data science in the development of the company.

All scholarship projects offered by the Santander Group can be found at Santander-grants.com and SantanderX.com.