Iberdrola supports training, young talent, employment and excellence

Iberdrola is on the side of training and employment. This was made clear at the "Training, Employment and Excellence" conference attended by King Felipe VI. His Majesty the King, accompanied by the Chairman of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, participated at the company's headquarters in a day of support for young talent and excellence, during which he presented the Scholarships corresponding to various training programmes promoted by Iberdrola and its Foundation for 2022-2023.

During the event, Ignacio Galán thanked the Crown for its "continued involvement in promoting talent and employability" and stated that, for Iberdrola, "people are at the centre of all economic and social activity, and this is what I believe really makes a company great, its social commitment and its sensitivity to the needs of the environment, its social dividend".

Iberdrola's social dividend is reflected in its responsibility to the environment; in its 12,000 volunteers; in the more than 350 million euros spent annually on innovation; and in the fact that, in the past year alone, nearly 4,500 new professionals have joined the group.

Iberdrola continues to have a driving effect on thousands of suppliers with its investments and purchases of around 18,000 million euros, with which it supports more than 400,000 jobs throughout its value chain. Moreover, through this activity, it has continued to contribute more than 7.8 billion euros to the public coffers in 2022. In the company, talent is promoted, attracted, identified and managed in different processes and programmes managed through its Foundation and its Talent area.

Men and women who are examples of success in different fields took part in the event to share their experiences after receiving training thanks to the company's Master's scholarships and through the Impulsa Programme, the Electricians' School and the agreement signed between the electricity company and UNICEF, among others.

The beneficiaries received from the hand of His Majesty the King the diploma certifying the award of the various grants created by Iberdrola with the aim of promoting talent and encouraging excellence in the training of new generations. 

These are the following programmes:

   - Iberdrola International Master's Scholarship Programme: with the current call for applications for Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Brazil, young people will boost their professional careers thanks to this line of financial aid. They will complete their postgraduate training at prestigious universities with future professional opportunities.

   - The Energy for Future Postdoctoral Research Programme benefits postdoctoral researchers for five years who will carry out their work on technologies associated with the energy transition in collaboration with prestigious universities in Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the United States and Mexico.

   - The Fulbright Commission Grants, a line of postgraduate grants in the United States in fields related to Iberdrola's activities in energy, the environment, and technology.

   - The Scholarships awarded in collaboration with Fundación Carolina, a programme of postgraduate scholarships at universities in Spain to further the studies of university graduates from Latin America in areas related to energy and climate change.

   - The Restoration Training and Research Scholarships with the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and the Prado for young restorers in these internationally renowned art galleries.
 

In addition to the scholarships awarded, Iberdrola maintains, among others, a line of aid for the Promotion of STEM for young people from socioeconomically vulnerable backgrounds; the ICAI Scholarship programme, aimed at financing university studies related to the energy sector for students with limited economic resources; or the Scholarships developed in conjunction with the Spanish Paralympic Committee, aimed at facilitating the professional training of athletes with a view to their labour integration once their career in sport has ended.

Likewise, in a firm commitment by the Iberdrola group to promote young talent, 300 places have been offered in the two calls for its International Graduate Programme.

On the other hand, and as proof of Iberdrola's interest in training young people, in 2022 the company has taken on more than 1,600 young interns who have been able to take their first professional steps at a leading company in the energy sector and develop new skills and abilities that will serve to boost their future employment.

In this regard, more than 30,000 young people have joined Iberdrola in the last decade, some of whom did so thanks to a scholarship and are already occupying important positions in the company.

In addition to the young scholarship recipients, the event was attended by the Secretary of State for Education, José Manuel Bar Cendón; the Ambassador of Qatar, Abdulla bin Ibrahim Abdulrahman Sultan al-Hamar; the Ambassador of Australia, Sophia Ross McIntyre; the Rector of the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Enrique Sanz Giménez-Rico; as well as members of the Board of Directors and executives of Iberdrola