The "12 Months for CSR" campaign includes a series of actions aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The 12 months of 2025 will be dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at the management that integrates Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB) and Viladecans Hospital. Throughout the year, initiatives will be carried out to strengthen the commitment of both centres to improving environmental management, reducing the ecological footprint, enhancing the patient experience, empowering professionals, and engaging with citizens and civic entities in their territorial scope, among others.
The main objectives of the project are to convey to citizens the importance of CSR, the commitment and relevance it has for HUB and Viladecans Hospital as organizations, the actions it entails, and to encourage new initiatives in this line with the participation of the professionals from the centres.
The campaign unfolds based on a calendar of actions in which all initiatives are distributed month by month. In this way, during the month of January, a series of actions have been launched in this regard:
- Internal awareness campaign coinciding with World Day for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions.
- Pioneering circular economy project in healthcare that allows the reprocessing of electrophysiology catheters.
- Celebration of the third talk in the outreach series "Excuse me, I have a question" at the Bellvitge Library.
- Launch of a new edition of the course "Crazy About Nutrition," promoted by the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation to foster scientific vocations among high school students.
- Participation of professionals in the first university expertise program in Gender Perspective in Health.
- Conducting four cross-sectional internal training workshops on leadership and generational diversity.
- Participation in an ICS seminar on mediation as a resource for professionals.
- Participation in the IDIBELL Women's sLHam.
- Distribution among employees of a periodic survey on smoking consumption habits.
"Beyond our main objective, healthcare, we also take into account the global orientation of the 2030 Agenda to achieve a more sustainable world, and in this sense, since 2023, we have established Corporate Social Responsibility as a major cross-cutting axis of our actions, beyond environmental sustainability," states Dr. Cristina Capdevila, manager of HUB and Viladecans Hospital.
To make explicit the importance of CSR actions for HUB and Viladecans Hospital, at the beginning of 2023, the slogan and logo #SocialmentResponsables were incorporated into the image and communications of both centres.
The CSR strategy of both hospitals, which took its first steps in 2010 with the creation of a specific commission, is structured around four major areas of action that contribute to achieving 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make up the 2030 Agenda: organization, people, environment, and community.