MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Air Liquide Foundation Awards honor the most innovative organizations among those supported by the Foundatio, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
For this second edition, two scientific organizations were singled out in the Research category for their projects promoting the Environment and Health.
New this year, the 2018 Awards for Societal Commitment honor the engagement of Group employees working alongside associations on citizenship projects supported by the Foundation. In all, six employees and six organizations received awards. The Group's employees also awarded a special "Coup de Coeur" prize to a project supported by Air Liquide employees, presented by Benoit Potier, the Chairman and CEO of Air Liquide, during a special ceremony held in Paris on February 5, 2018.
Since it was founded in 2008, the Air Liquide Foundation has been supporting research in the areas of the Environment and Health, as well as contributing to local development in countries where the Group does business. Since its inception, the Foundation has supported 284 projects in 50 countries thanks to the involvement of 345 employee sponsors who recommend and support these projects.
The 2018 Awards for Research, which were handed out in the Health category by Diana Schillag, European Healthcare Operations Vice President at Air Liquide, and in the Environment category by Francois Darchis, Innovation and Development Vice President at Air Liquide, supervising the Sustainable Development program, honored: The Universite Paris Descartes in collaboration with Institut Cochin for their research into the lung damage associated with a rare disease, systemic scleroderma1.
The Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) of Paris for its research on the capacity of the Vietnam mangrove to capture CO2.
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