For several years Mitsubishi Electric Europe, B.V. (Spanish Branch) in Barcelona has been supporting promising young musicians through sponsorship of the annual Primer Palau Festival, an event that gives up-and-coming musicians a chance to demonstrate their talents at the prestigious Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, one of the world's leading concert halls and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Students compete in preliminary concerts and winners perform at a final concert and receive cash prizes. In actuality, all participants are winners, because simply competing in Primer Palau is recognized as a major step towards a professional career in music.

Mitsubishi Electric Contributes Hardware to Technical Universities

Back in June 2008, Mitsubishi Electric designed and created a set of practical demonstration kits that could be used for practical teaching purposes in universities. Each kit contained hardware worth €2000

Since then, 14 technical universities have received hardware from Mitsubishi Electric, while 28 technical departments throughout Poland have installed teaching kits into their laboratories for students to access.

The aim of the education kits program was to make Mitsubishi Electric hardware accessible to students in order to broaden their knowledge and practical skills in the configuration and programming of the hardware.

Mitsubishi Electric supports local "Kinderschutzbund"

Climate Change Conference Milano

On March 30th 2009, Mitsubishi Electric Italian branch supported a conference on the effects of climate change organised by, and held at the prestigious “National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci” in Milan. The conference was attended by renowned scholars, government representatives and environmental experts, and generated a great deal of press and public attention.

The conference aimed to stimulate debate on recent findings related to climate change, in particular the ethical, scientific and socio-economic aspects which resulted in a heated debate about whether the recent increase in global temperature was not caused by human-induced activity, but by natural phenomena such as solar activity.

In supporting the event contributors from Mitsubishi Electric were able to highlight the company's Environmental Vision 2021 and it's green technologies such as photovoltaic systems and air to water heat pumps to aid CO2 reduction.

Mitsubishi Electric has recently donated three photovoltaic education kits, which demonstrate how solar energy is generated, to the Japanese International School in Düsseldorf. The aim is that by experimenting with these working models the pupils will understand more about how solar power is created by using photovoltaic cells.

As part of its ‘Environmental Vision 2021' which marks the 100^th anniversary of the company's founding, Mitsubishi Electric has set its own targets to help develop a sustainable society. These long-term initiatives include measures to help prevent global warming and to establish recycling in our society. The philosophy of this vision "making contributions to the Earth and its people though technology and action" is reinforced through social responsibility, and by educating future generations.

Mitsubishi Electric who are an international high-tech company, understand that renewable energies are an important part of the research and development required to achieve this vision. "It is important that we teach our children as soon as possible how to take care of the precious resources of our earth" says Noriaki Himi, President of Mitsubishi Electric's German branch, based in Ratingen. "These education kits have been provided to demonstrate to the pupils in a practical way how to generate solar energy".

Mitsubishi Electric has supported the Japanese International School, founded in 1971 in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, for many years. In 2005 the company installed a comprehensive alarm security system.