Several business lines have developed training materials designed for operational staff. In 2023, VINCI Energies developed a module on responsible purchasing for suppliers and on product environmental profiles (PEPs) for responsible products. VINCI Immobilier trained all property developers on the key action points for implementing its environmental strategy, and especially the “no net land take” target to be met by 2030 in France. Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction) created the training programme “Environnement Leader @ Soletanche Freyssinet” for all business unit managers. The training features several workshops in which peers share their experiences in order to improve environment plans for each business unit.
Over the course of 2023, the business units also targeted certain issues related to their activity to develop training for a broader audience. For example, the VINCI Energies brand Omexom developed a workshop on how to integrate environmental issues into the procurement process for business managers. VINCI Concessions launched a training course on the circular economy with Circul’R, a global network of circular economy actors, to promote the sharing of best practices within the business line, identify potential partners and detect sources of waste. VINCI Autoroutes rolls out hands-on training courses about how to preserve local biodiversity. These courses cover topics such as finding and implementing alternatives to phytosanitary products, following sustainable roadside grass mowing plans, and monitoring fences. Awareness is proactively promoted at worksites and projects for employees, temporary staff and subcontractors with the regular 15 minute environment sessions, which focus on operational issues. In France, VINCI Construction’s Cesame centres and Eurovia Academy have integrated environmental matters into the ongoing training programmes aimed at project supervisors, site managers, quarry and branch managers, young quarry engineers and civil engineers, and more broadly in training on regulations.
In 2023, these actions represented a total of 110,182 hours, up 30% from 2022.
| Number of hours of training | Change | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023/2022 | |
| VINCI Autoroutes | 9,574 | 12,635 | −24% |
| VINCI Airports | 5,652 | 3,361 | +68% |
| Other concessions | 1,474 | 735 | +101% |
| VINCI Energies | 22,798 | 19,180 | +19% |
| Cobra IS | 22,500 | 12,544 | +79% |
| VINCI Construction | 47,148 | 34,476 | +37% |
| VINCI Immobilier and holding cos. | 1,036 | 2,010 | −48% |
| Group | 110,182 | 84,941 | +30% |
VINCI attended COP28 in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 and participated in a variety of industry related workshops and round table discussions. The Group has renewed its long standing partnerships with the French non profit Entreprises pour l’Environnement, the Bird Protection League (LPO) and its building and biodiversity urban development programme (U2B), Comité 21, the non-profit Équilibre des Énergies (EdEn), the non profit organisation Orée, along with research organisations such as the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), a French think tank formed to facilitate the transition towards sustainable development, and the Bruno Latour Fund launched by Sciences Po. VINCI and three of the ParisTech engineering schools (AgroParisTech, Mines Paris PSL and École des Ponts ParisTech) have entered into a scientific partnership, called VINCI ParisTech lab recherche environnement, which aims to reduce the impacts of buildings and infrastructure on the environment. This partnership was renewed on 30 November 2023 for a further five years. Through lab recherche environnement’s work, a number of tools and solutions have been developed to advance the environmental transition through VINCI’s businesses.
VINCI worked as a sponsor on the study “Étape 2030 de la Transition Écologique” (Ecological Transition and the 2030 Milestone) published in December 2023 following two years of research steered by 30 member companies of Entreprises pour l’Environnement. Through a storytelling approach, the study describes the major transformations needed and the priority strategies to set in motion in order to achieve the ecological transition.
Although Group entities have for many years developed strong partnerships with non profits or research centres to support natural environments (nearly 1,200 agreements, of which 800 voluntarily, were signed or in effect in 2023), they have broadened the scope of their collaboration:
