Patronage and Sponsorship
The Group has a long-term active and generally very discrete support policy. Its sponsorship through the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation is well-known, but its support in other fields such as universitary book printing or theatre, is less known.
The NBG organizes the i-bank Competition Innovation & Technology competition rewarding original ideas based in new technologies on i-banking and e-commerce (3rd competition in 2012).
During the crisis in Greece the situation of the health sector is very diffucult, the NBG build a new wing of the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens. It cost 30 Mio. €.
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Famous quotes containing the word patronage:
“She loved money, but could occasionally part with it, especially to men of learning, whose patronage she affected. She often conversed with them, and bewildered herself in their metaphysical disputes, which neither she nor they themselves understood.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)