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Rinaldi Foundation

The Rinaldi Foundation is a non-profit legal entity intended to teach and train young university students thanks to the creation of Escola Universitària Salesiana de Sarrià (EUSS).

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The Rinaldi Foundation

The Rinaldi Foundation is a non-profit legal entity intended to teach and train young university students thanks to the creation of Escola Universitària Salesiana de Sarrià (EUSS). Its aim is to offer industrial engineering undergraduate programmes, always keeping in mind the technical-professional training, the historical hallmark of the Salesian Congregation, whose spirit they wish to maintain.

 

All this has the intention of promoting comprehensive education through teaching, research, collaboration with companies, along with continuous training aimed to meet the needs, and demands of today's society. This goes hand-in-hand with the Christian-inspired criteria flagship of the Salesian Preventive System, which is clearly reflected in its ideology.

 

The Rinaldi Private Foundation was established in 1992. It was registered in the Generalitat de Catalunya Foundation Registry on 16 June. It is also a member of the Catalan Coordinator of Foundations. Being a non-profit-making foundation, any profits it generates will be used to develop its own activities, which will always be of a charitable and educational nature.

The Rinaldi Foundation is endowed with two instruments which facilitate access to studies, and promote excellence: the Rinaldi Foundation Scholarships, and the Felip Rinaldi Award.

In conclusion, the Rinaldi Foundation both supports, and approves the School's strategic plan, also providing scholarships, grants and honours to students, individuals and entities. On the other hand, it awards scholarships for current and future students of EUSS, while studying possible new training proposal creation projects.

The Board of Trustees

The Foundation's governing and administrative body is the Board of Trustees, which may delegate its powers to an Executive Committee.

Duties of the Board of Trustees:

  1. To oversee the educational line along with the identity of the School.
  2. To approve the general action programme of the School, together with the planning, costs and sources of financing its activities, at the proposal of its Director. 
  3. To approve the School's internal rules and regulations.
  4. To approve the Foundation's budgets, including those of all its sections and activities.
  5. To know and report on the School's activity plans.
  6. To approve the School's staff hiring criteria.
  7. To appoint the Director of the School.
  8. To appoint the members of the School's governing bodies, as well as the sections dependent on the Foundation.
  9. To approve the School's staff hiring and dismissal, at the proposal of the Director.

 

The Board of Trustees is made up of significant people from the Catalan industrial and business world, people who hold long-standing links to the university world, together with institutional representatives of the Salesians of Catalonia.

 

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Composition of the board

The current composition of the Rinaldi Foundation Board of Trustees is

The current composition of the Rinaldi Foundation Board of Trustees is: 

 

  • President:
    • Mr. Orlando González González, sdb.
  • Vice president:
    • Dr. Jordi Latorre Castillo, sdb, priest and professor of Sacred Scripture at the Don Bosco Higher Institute of Religious Sciences and at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia.
  • Secretary:
    • Fr. Xavier Brines Socies, sdb, Head of Salesians de Sarrià.
  • Vowels:
    • Ms. Mireia Cammany i Dorr, Deputy General Manager EPI Industries Family of Companies, SL.
    • Dr. Núria Castell i Ariño, Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
    • Dr. Ricard Jiménez Buendía, Industrial Scientific Director at Eurecat.
    • Dr. Joaquín Menacho Solà-Morales, Professor at Institut Químic de Sarrià
    • Fr. Fernando Miranda Ustero, sdb, Vicar and Formation Delegate of Inspectoria Salesiana Maria Auxiliadora.
    • Sr. Jesús Montoliu Fayas, CEO SOLVE ADVISORS GROUP

Filippo Rinaldi

The Foundation is named after Filippo Rinaldi. Rinaldi was born in 1856, became a Salesian in 1880, and was appointed Director of the Salesian Workshops in Sarrià in 1889. In 1922, he was elected third Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, as well as second successor of D. Bosco. After dying  in 1931, his beatification was celebrated under John Paul II in 1990.

 

The scholarships and prizes awarded by the Foundation bear his name.

Rinaldi Foundation scholarships

 

The Rinaldi Foundation offers each academic year four types of scholarships so that students who enrol in the Salesian University School of Sarrià can deal with the financing of a part of the cost of their studies.

 

Students who receive these aids can renew them each course as long as they meet the criteria established in their bases.

 

General description of our scholarships:

  • Collaboration scholarship: you will receive an amount to carry out 150 hours of collaboration tasks during the course in a department or service of the school.

  • Study grant: if you have a good academic performance, you can benefit from a direct discount on tuition fees (25% of the credit.)

  • Don Bosco scholarship: if you have studied in a Salesian school, you can apply for this scholarship that will allow you to study undergraduate studies at a public price, with the commitment to carry out 200 hours of collaborative tasks during the course in a department or service of the school.

  • Domènec Savio scholarship: if you have experience in activities of service to society, you can apply for this scholarship that will allow you to study undergraduate studies at a public price, with the commitment to perform 200 hours of collaborative tasks during the course within the Pastoral group.

Check the bases of our scholarships at the end of this page.