Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
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Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
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| million euros of support |     | million people and businesses helped |     | partnerships with universities and entities in 14 countries63 |

Santander has supported education, employability, and entrepreneurship for over 28 years. During this period, we have invested over EUR 2.4 billion in partnership with more than 1,100 universities and entities, helping over 3.7 million people and businesses. In 2024 alone, we allocated EUR 104 million to promoting education, employability and entrepreneurship, and helped 2.2 million people and businesses. This reinforces our objective with EUR 400 million between 2023 and 2026 in these three pillars, that supports our purpose to help people and businesses prosper. Until 2024 we have allocated EUR 208.9 million against this ambition. We help higher education institutions enhancing the university ecosystem through partnership agreements. We also help adults access and complete their higher education studies through grants and scholarships. Through lifelong learning opportunities, they can acquire and update the skills that will enable them to boost their job prospects. We provide training, resources and other benefits to help businesses and entrepreneurial projects create opportunities, grow and transform through each stage of their development. 1. Education Our support for education involves grants and scholarships for students and researchers to access and complete their higher education studies. We also help universities to face their main challenges and strengthen their transformation in different areas, with a special focus on digitalisation. We do this through: → Scholarships and grants awarded in collaboration with universities and institutions of international prestige, which help with access to university, academic mobility, research or the opportunity to do internships. → Agreements signed with 1,181 universities, institutions and organisations in 14 countries.

63 Includes universities, institutions and organizations that have an agreement with Santander Universities, Universia, Fundación Universia and Fundación Banco Santander. With activity from Santander Universities alone, the figure is 939 academic entities in 11 countries. Since 2024, Universia reports only agreements signed in the geographies where the Group operates.

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| Contents |     | Business model and strategy |     | Sustainability statement |     | Corporate governance |     | Economic and financial review |     | Riskmanagement and compliance |

→ Campus Digital, which offers an innovative relational model improving the life of the university community. It streamlines academic procedures and communications through an easy and simple experience, adapting to users’ needs, and ensuring data privacy. It offers services