About ERSTE Foundation
Founded in 2003, ERSTE Foundation started its work actively two years later in the entire Central and South Eastern European region. It is developing projects within the three programmes Social Affairs, Culture and Europe. ERSTE Foundation is the direct successor to the savings association bank “Erste Oesterreichische Spar-Casse”, founded in Vienna in 1819. Drawing from the tradition of savings banks founded as enterprises for the common good, today the main shareholder of Erste Bank Group is one of the largest foundations in the region.