The Give Me Five programme was launched at the end of 2018 to help foster social cohesion in communities and tackle inequalities. Created, funded and coordinated by VINCI, Give Me Five focuses on young people from priority neighbourhoods as defined by urban policy
in France. It is structured around five initiatives, each associated with a key area for action:
- Guidance: Working closely with the French Ministry of National Education, VINCI is committed to welcoming up to 5,000 middle school students from priority education networks (REP) and reinforced priority education networks (REP+) for placements every year to discover the business world. In 2022, the Give Me Five programme’s work experience placements and operations in middle schools were carried out from February to December, with the Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Besançon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Metz-Nancy, Nice, Reims, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Versailles education authorities, welcoming more than 4,200 middle school students from around 100 different schools.
- Individual support: Since the start of the 2020 school year, an approach to provide personalised support (guidance, academic support, inspiring workshops, etc.) has been rolled out in the Greater Paris area, Lille and Lyon in partnership with the non-profit organisations Viens voir mon taf, Rêv’Elles, Crée ton avenir and Unis-Cités. In 2022, more than 5,000 students at schools overseen by four local education authorities benefited from this initiative.
- Integration: Working closely with Mozaik RH, a sourcing consultancy specialised in diversity and inclusion, VINCI is increasing visibility for its internships (to gain experience during a gap year, summer holidays or after graduation) and facilitating access to them for students from priority neighbourhoods as defined by urban policy in France. In 2022, 14 recruitment days were organised throughout France for all levels of students.
- Employability: With the teams from VINCI Insertion Emploi (ViE), VINCI is jointly leading the deployment of an employability programme to help secure a return to stable employment for young people under the age of 26 living in priority neighbourhoods as defined by urban policy in France. The Step programme is presented in detail in the VINCI Insertion Emploi section on the previous page.
- Learning: This fifth component of the Give Me Five programme was launched in 2021, as a means for VINCI to continue building on its robust approach to recruiting young apprentices. Thanks to an online platform created with JobIRL, France’s leading social network for career guidance, young people from the age of 15 can look up information and build their learning pathway by discovering the different courses that tie in with the work-based training programmes offered by Group companies, and then easily apply in just a few clicks. In 2022, VINCI also took part in the apprenticeship and work-based training fair held in Lyon and organised by L’Étudiant, an online media outlet and higher education resource. At the VINCI stand, more than 500 young people and their parents met with recruiters and young people currently on work-based training programmes at Group companies. Around 150 personality tests were carried out so that these young people could learn more about themselves and build a career plan to suit their profile.
In September 2021, the Boost academic support initiative was launched for the children of all employees in France and the various French-speaking countries where the Group operates. This online service is funded exclusively by VINCI, in partnership with Prof Express, which offers a range of resources and access to teachers from the French national education system. More than 8,000 children of Group employees have benefited from this initiative since its launch.
In November 2022, VINCI set up Moov, a mentoring programme to support career guidance and professional integration. It offers opportunities for all VINCI employees to become mentors and support a young person, with a flexible approach that is defined directly through their initial exchanges together. This programme was created in partnership with Collectif Mentorat, which groups together the ecosystem of non-profit organisations focused on mentoring in France. For this launch, VINCI selected five non-profit organisations with a view to offering a tailored experience for VINCI employees, supported upstream by a mentoring awareness module on Up!, the Group’s online learning platform.
VINCI companies, guided by their target to recruit more than 8,000 young people each year, maintain strong and sustainable long-term relationships across the Group, the business lines and the companies with higher education institutions and, more widely, with all members of the educational community. These relationships range from sponsorship of graduating classes, to support for specific degree programmes, site visits, participation in fairs, support for sporting events, and initiatives to welcome interns and trainees. In France and around the world, Group companies also draw on the VINCI employer brand promise – “You will enjoy working with us” – to build their recruitment strategy and establish local partnerships with training centres, universities and other higher education institutions. In France, most of these actions are led by the human resources Pivot Clubs, which have strong local roots.
8,617
young people under the age of
26 recruited in 2022
In addition to the programmes supporting professional integration in France as mentioned previously, VINCI’s business lines and the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité have set up various social joint ventures (collaboration between a VINCI company and a non-profit).
In 2022, the foundation continued to develop the five existing social joint ventures, three of which had launched their activities in 2020:
- Tridev, co-founded by VINCI Construction and the Id’ees group, specialised in green space maintenance and building deconstruction (13 employees, including 10 on integration programmes);
- Tim, co-founded by VINCI Energies France and the Vitamine T group, specialised in a range of services (18 employees, including 13 on integration programmes);
- Baseo, co-founded by VINCI Construction and the Id’ees group, specialised in services for living facilities at project sites (61 employees, including 51 on integration programmes);
- Liva, co-founded by VINCI Construction and the Ares group, specialised in construction site logistics (233 employees, including 172 on integration programmes);
- Ïnva, co-founded by VINCI Autoroutes and the La Varappe group, specialised in service area facilities maintenance and multi-services activities (50 employees, including 35 on integration programmes).