Welcoming charities
The Fondation VINCI pour la Cité has opened the Group’s doors to non-profits its supports and the people they work with. Two of the organisations now have permanent bases at l’archipel, VINCI’s head office: Elles Bougent, which encourages young women to consider technical and scientific careers (and includes VINCI among its main partners), and Proxité, which tutors youths from priority education areas to help them finish school and enter the job market. Maison Proxité, at l’archipel, took in Association Pierre Claver in 2024 to run its pilot programme, ENT.RE (for “Entreprises et Réfugiés”), which involves French-language and general-knowledge workshops led by Group employees.
Academic support
The children of 127,000 employees in France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria can now use Boost, a free-of-charge online tutoring service, from their first year of primary school to their second year of post-secondary education. The system has been up and running since 2022 in France, where 11,000 young people are already using it.
employees’ children can ask for help via Boost from teachers in the national education system as often as they need to throughout the year.
Fostering equality in Colombia
The Fundación VINCI en Colombia, set up by VINCI Construction’s and VINCI Concessions’ local subsidiaries, is supporting various charity programmes revolving around youth education. These include Soy Hemi, which provides one-to-one academic support for children with disabilities (photo opposite), Global Medicine, which runs health awareness campaigns in secondary schools, and Casa de la Mujer, which works in schools to prevent violence against young women. Many Group employees are working on these programmes side by side with the charities.