The following is a list of main projects realised in the period 2009-2013 by Augustea:

• Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, one of the world’s leading children’s research hospitals and the largest pediatric center for brain surgery in United Kingdom. Augustea supported the world-class Neurology Department. The funds that the structure raises are destined to buy technologically advanced equipment, support researches with a focus on serious child illnesses, value the welfare services for patients and their families. Further in 2011 the international shipping community promoted an innovative campaign of fundraising, launched by the Chairman of Spinnaker Consulting Ltd, Mr Phil Parry, whose son Oscar has been treated at the Great Ormond Street Hospital since the age of 3 for leukemia. The OSCAR campaign (Ocean and Shipping Community Advancing Children’s Health and Research) is a unique opportunity to bring together companies and individuals from across the shipping universe to create a shared legacy. Its first aim is to raise £ 500,000 towards the remaining £ 2.2 million needed for the Seas and Oceans themed floor in the new hospital building. In line with its social policy, Augustea proudly and generously supported this philanthropic initiative.
• Associazione San Camillo, contribution to theSisters of Charity and Assumptionwho support disadvantaged families in one of the most poor and risky areas of Naples. The nuns assist children providing psychological support, with educational programs, recreational and sportive activities.
• Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, scholarship “Psychological support to adolescents with partially lethal, chronic diseases”.
• Families of the victims of Nassirya, contribution to families of the Italian soldiers who died in Iraq during the "Mission Old Babilonia" started in 2003 after the second Gulf War.
• Support to families of victims of homicide, Catania.
• FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Augustea isGolden Members of the Italian most renown association for the conservation of the artistic and natural heritage.
• Restoration of the churches of SS Annunziata and San Domenico, historical churches located in Augusta made by or devoted to the assistance to seafarers.
• Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, archive that preserves the historical memory of Italy. It gathers diaries, autobiographies, memories and epistles written by common people in which the history of our country is reflected.
• Marilighea for the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage of Augusta and Sicily.
• S.H.E.P, Augustea helped this foundation to renovate the children ward in the Wamba Catholic Hospital  in Kenya.
• Medici Senza Frontiere humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization.
• Ospedali Santobono e Pausillipon, Naples’s leading pediatric structures. In 2010 Augustea and other partners (SS&Y Naples and CA.FI.MA.) destined an important donation in order to buy a complex neuro-monitoring system to be used during spinal cord operations and for  check-up of childrens with brain damages. In 2011 Augustea supported the pediatric & oncology unit purchasing the latest generation sonogram, used to prevent and control the presence of viruses and the trend of the oncological diseases. The Pausillipon carries out the 50% of transplant surgery in Campania.
• Colombian Pediatric Hospital Cari in Barranquilla, Doctor Oscar Aponte, as chairman of the national Neurosurgery Society, proposed that Augustea purchased the Biostronitech, an endoscope of high definition. The offer was enthusiastically supported by both medical and political local institutions.
• Samburu Kenya, help to the local community.
• Support to families of victims of homicide (Catania).
• The Japanese Red Cross, nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011.
• Indonesia, support to face the devastation caused by the typhoon which hit Indonesia in 2011.
• Marilighea for the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage of Augusta and Sicily.
• Ospedale Gaslini, considered one of the best children's hospitals of Europe and known worldwide. We addressed our support to the fund for kidney diseases.
• Fondazione Malattie Renali del Bambino (Genova)
• A.S.D. Augusta Blind (Augusta)
• E.T.I.C.A. contribution to a cooperative supporting young victims of abuse.
• Icaro, contribution to an association supporting children with motor and neurological diseases.
• Sailor’s Society, contribution to an International Christian no-profit Organization.
• CRILAP + UNIMA, contribution to an association assisting children with malformation.
• Sailor’s Society, contribution to an International Christian no-profit Organization.

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