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Antigen tests to stop the spread of the pandemic
If you’d like to take a free test to help identify the virus at an early stage, come along to our free testing center. We’ll be at the Wizink Center in Madrid until August 31.
Start up your own Community Foundation
If you’ve got an idea for improving the lives of people in your community, or if you think you can find a solution to local problems, you now have a great opportunity to start up a Community Foundation that promotes initiatives of common interest.
New users, a different kind of mobility
The upsurge of personal mobility vehicles (PMV) in cities has brought a change to the way we move around on city streets. Below we explain how to drive these vehicles in a safe and responsible way.
How to withstand the heat
Like every year, in the month of July the thermometer rises and we all suffer the damaging effects of excess heat. With these tips you will learn to better withstand high temperatures.
Wings for Butterfly Skin Disease
We support the work of this NGO in its determination to improve the lives of people with ‘butterfly skin’, a rare and very painful genetic disease for which a cure has yet to be found. Today we are proud to receive their thanks for this support.
Here’s to a less smartphone-dependent summer!
The summer season involves a change of rhythms and routines that can be used to instill more sustainable habits. With this campaign, we’re suggesting some little tricks you can introduce straight away to help fight the tendency to overuse your smartphone.
ARCO 2021 strengthens the beat of the city’s pulse
Madrid throws open the door to art and art collecting with ARCO 2021, an edition that this year is being held exceptionally between July 7 and 11. Some 130 galleries from 26 countries are coming to swell the city’s cultural offer. To mark the occasion and show our support for the week in which Contemporary Art is the main protagonist, Fundación MAPFRE is extending its exhibition opening hours until 10pm on Friday, July 9.
Claudia Andujar’s catalog at Les Rencontres d’Arles
For more than five decades, Claudia Andujar has dedicated her life and her work to documenting and protecting the Yanomami people, one of the largest and most endangered indigenous communities in Brazil. The catalog we published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition in Barcelona between February 26 and May 23, 2021, was shortlisted for the Best Historical Book award at the Rencontres d’Arlés photography festival in France.
Elena Sanz, the new member of Fundación MAPFRE’s Board of Trustees
Elena Sanz, Group Chief Human Resources Officer at MAPFRE and president of MAPFRE’s Sustainability Committee, joins the Board of Trustees of Fundación MAPFRE.
Our Board of Trustees is growing in diversity and experience
Our Board of Trustees is being enlarged with the addition of two women with proven experience in complementary business spheres. Let us introduce them!
Save electricity by all means – but take care
With the hike in electricity prices, you may be thinking of running the dishwasher and washing machine at night to make savings. If you’ve decided to put your appliances on the night-time tariff, make sure you take precautions to avoid any risks.
Recycling child seats when they are no longer serviceable
Recycling child restraint systems does not mean donating them to be repaired and re-sold. It means that the seat will be dismantled, separating all materials.
Learn about the main anti-rotation systems for child car seats
Although all of the restraining force is borne by the lower anchors, the anti-rotation system prevents the child seat and the child from being thrown forward.
How have vehicles adapted to the i-Size standard?
The i-Size standard is something new to many people, but in fact it was approved over two years ago and is currently in force alongside the ECE R44 standard.
Are buses designed with children in mind?
We will cover all the aspects which affect a child when travelling both by inter-city bus and by coach.
Vehicle safety to protect children
The fact is that these days cars have all sorts of safety features to help protect young children that perhaps you hadn’t even thought about.
10 years of working together to support young children
The collaboration agreement between Fundación MAPFRE and Fundación Barça to support children and young people from vulnerable communities in Brazil has reached its tenth anniversary. During this time, more than 13,000 children have benefited from the program.