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Cover Annual Report 2019

ERSTE Foundation Annual Report 2019

Publisher: ERSTE Foundation, Vienna
Year: 2020

ERSTE Foundation publishes annually a report with information and figures related to its work.

2019 was an exceptional year, for Erste Bank and its owner, ERSTE Foundation. They celebrated the 200th anniversary of both their founding and the savings bank idea in Austria. We used the occasion as an opportunity to examine what the idea actually means in 2019.

The refreshed report presents the development of the foundation’s participating interests in Erste Group, its core projects and areas of activity, and the decision-making team and boards. In addition, it provides the foundation’s financial statement and gives an overview of developments planned for the future.

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Florian Bauer

Director Social Finance, Sustainability and Innovation
Since 2023, Florian Bauer has been responsible for social finance, sustainability and social innovation at ERSTE Foundation. Prior to this role, Florian worked in the NGO & Social Entrepreneurship sector for more than 13 years. He led the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), an international multilateral NGO that works to accelerate market-based deployment of renewable energy and energy efficient systems in developing countries, and was Managing Director & COO of the Impact Hub Vienna. From 2020-2023, Florian established strategic alliances with key partners and helped to create innovative semantic technology solutions at Semantic Web Company (SWC), a leading IT company in semantic AI solutions.