The Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation develops and supports projects in the field of Education and the promotion of social solidarity, as instruments for eliminating social inequalities. In pursuit of its statutory purposes, the Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation bases its actions on a set of principles and values:

• Ethics and Trust The Foundation aims to create relationships based on Ethics and Trust in the medium and long term.
• People in the center The Foundation intends to make People the focus of its work, whether they are its Employees or the recipients of its support and initiatives; the Foundation values and defends, in particular, human rights, equal treatment in similar situations, and the promotion of the development of each person's capabilities and skills.
• Social Responsibility The Foundation's essence is an active sense of social responsibility that aims to contribute to the improvement of the society in which it operates; the Foundation's conduct is guided by environmental concerns and adopts sustainable development policies.
• Ambition Ambition arises from the continuous establishment of constructive goals that test the limits and stimulate the vitality of the organization, also aiming to carry out far-reaching projects and taking the Foundation's beneficial action to an increasingly wider group of people, ideas and projects.
• Innovation Innovation in procedures, methods and objectives is actively sought in the Foundation's work and is a criterion for valuing the projects it encourages or supports.
• Frugality and Efficiency The Foundation's objective is to optimize the use of resources and maximize their return in social terms, while maintaining a profile of frugality.
• Legality, Cooperation and Independence The Foundation bases its activities on scrupulous respect for the law and, within the scope of its own purposes, is willing and open to cooperate with public entities, always with the aim of improving the current regulatory, legislative and social framework, while simultaneously adopting a position of independence in relation to political power, whether central or local.

( Code of Conduct , Chapter II, Principles and values of the Foundation, Article 2 - Fundamental principles and values)