Repsol YPF

Education and Training

Repsol YPF considers education and training as the basis for development and the best tool of the future to achieve sustainable development. To this end, it allocates a large portion of its social investments to projects related to education and the creation of knowledge.

The support of Repsol YPF to educational programmes are directed primarily to children through projects which concentrate on primary and secondary education while, training programmes are directed primarily at adults via university and post-graduate programmes developed by the Repsol YPF Spain Foundation and the YPF Argentina Foundation with the active participation of the best professionals at Repsol YPF.

Education and care for the environment constitutes one of the priority actions of Repsol YPF Bolivia, which holds workshops from time to time for the schoolchildren in the communities where it operates within the framework of the programme “Our environment, our home” (Nuestro ambiente, nuestro hogar).

The Energy Higher Insitute (Instituto Superior de la Energía – ISE), a source of specialists in the world of energy , is an educational post-graduate institution with international character which was born with the help of the Repsol YPF Foundation and has its offices in Móstoles (Spain).

The ISE teaches post-graduate programmes specially orientated to the energy industry. Its principal goal is to plan and teach courses with a clear corporate focus, directed at young graduates who wish to join a company as young professionals in the world of energy or chemicals. It also organises seminars and courses aimed at ongoing training of professionals in the energy and petrochemical sectors.

The training activities carried out at the ISE can be classified in two categories: ongoing training and specialisation courses. In 2007 the number of participants in these activities was approximately 1500.

For more information, see: Corporate Responsibility Report 2007