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The Saint-Gobain India Foundation
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itself to improving the living conditions of the most destitute
people by supporting projects connected with education,
particularly for young girls. It also operates in the fields of
training, health and the environment.
In India, the Saint-Gobain India Foundation has dedicated
Foundations in the Activities
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providing them with the support of sponsorship provided by
company employees.
In France, the Fondation PAM of the Pipe Activity helps
young people experiencing social or financial difficulties by
programs connected with environmental preservation and
the development of cultural activities in the vicinity of the
Gypsum Activity sites.
The Fondation Placoplatre promotes the inclusion of young
people by working in the building businesses. It also supports
general interest sponsorship
Cultural, artistic, educational and
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Every year, Saint-Gobain undertakes to support cultural and
scientific projects connected with its identity, its history or its
strategy with regard to habitat.
The sponsorship project is based around 3 main lines: cultural
sponsorship, scientific publications and educational seminars
and actions.
Cultural sponsorship
financial sponsorship or sponsorship in kind.
establishments. Every year, exhibition projects that resonate
with its identity, its assets or its businesses also benefit from
Saint-Gobain provides long-term support for large cultural
The Group’s know-how and expertise (in glass and other
construction materials) are regularly requested, for exhibition
designs in particular.
Saint-Gobain has also provided the Musée d’Orsay with a
glazed enclosure to allow the restoration in public view of a
very large painting by Auguste Glaize entitled Les femmes
gauloises (The women of Gaul).
architecture from the 18
th
century to date, and for the
Château de Versailles for the exhibition Fêtes et
divertissements à la cour (Court Feasts and Entertainment).
In 2016, Saint-Gobain will have provided financial sponsorship
and/or sponsorship in kind for the Louvre-Lens for the
Charles Le Brun exhibition, for the Cité de l’architecture et du
patrimoine for the exhibition Tous à la plage ! on seaside
to the Opera and to attend performances or rehearsals.
In 2016, substantial support was provided for the AROP
(Association pour le rayonnement de l’Opéra de Paris) which
enabled employees to benefit from behind-the-scenes visits
Scientific publications and seminars
books in Versailles.
structures or even contemporary stained glass works. This
year, Saint-Gobain also participated in the Rendez-vous de
l’histoire de Blois in which the theme was Partir (Leaving) and
supported the Salon Histoire de Lire dedicated to history
supported and an exhibition held at the Université Bordeaux
Montaigne on the Fumel site (Lot-et-Garonne) where
Pont-à-Mousson owned a major factory (in which a
magnificent Watt’s machine is housed) as well as art deco
present day]. Thanks to Saint-Gobain, a structure was
on Le vitrail dans la demeure des origines à nos jours
[Stained-glass windows in the home from their origins to the
meetings or festivals connected with its history or its fields of
action (architecture in particular). In 2016, support was
provided for the journal of the Société des amis de la Cité de
la céramique de Sèvres, as well as the Centre Chastel seminar
Saint-Gobain enables institutions, associations, researchers,
etc., to publish works and reviews and to organize seminars,
world) for its 20
th
anniversary.
commerce (Architectures and trade) meetings and the AFEX
(Association des Architectes français à l’Export) which
organized an event on Dix ans d’architecture française dans le
monde (Ten years of French architecture throughout the
With regard to architecture, Saint-Gobain supported the
association Diversum which organized Architectures et
Educational measures
Saint-Gobain has continued to support the Fondation La Main
à la pate and the association C.Génial.
These measures aim to promote the dissemination of
scientific and technical culture among young people.
where it is on display with its history.
Saint-Étienne, still present in the Group. It was found in a
small cinema in the municipality of Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert.
It has been restored, acquired by the Group and placed in the
new cinema that opened in 2016 in the same municipality,
held in Paris in 1937, had been lost following the destruction
of the pavilion. It represented the blowing and spreading
operations carried out at the Saint-Just Glassworks, near
2016 was the incorporation into Saint-Gobain’s collections of
a stained-glass window by Raphaël Lardeur. This window,
designed by this great art deco master glass artist for
Saint-Gobain’s glass pavilion for the international exhibition
In addition to these 3 main lines, one major event in the year
conferences and discussions on Éthique et économie (Ethics
and the economy) throughout 2016.
Finally, Saint-Gobain anxious to make its contribution to
thoughts on the common good, has helped the Académie des
sciences morales et politiques to organize a cycle of