This structure reflects the Group’s strong commitment to developing its expertise in these areas and implementing measures that go beyond regulatory requirements.
Present throughout France, ViE helps build connections between the various stakeholders across the country’s regions who are focused on integration and employment (businesses, local and regional authorities, integration structures). It rolls out solutions to help the long-term or very long-term unemployed:
- Managing social clause aspects: In France, public procurement contracts include social integration clauses promoting the recruitment of long-term job seekers. The construction industry accounts for 52% of these clauses. In 2024, this represented around 2.5 million hours of work for VINCI companies. To address these social clause requirements, companies can recruit staff, hire temporary workers on integration programmes, or subcontract work to social enterprises and structures focused on integration. Within this framework, ViE supports the implementation of action plans that are adapted for the operations involved. It oversees these plans at regional level by working with local stakeholders (non-profits, social enterprises supporting integration, structures helping people return to work). ViE enables people on integration programmes to receive support throughout the entire process, helping them to secure stable employment. It acts as a “connector” between the various stakeholders: integration structures, job seekers, VINCI projects and programme management teams. Ensuring close alignment with the specific features and needs of each region, ViE works with the operational teams to meet or even exceed the contractual requirements of VINCI’s companies when possible.
- Programme management support: ViE supports contracting authorities to develop, implement, manage and coordinate an integration approach in line with their market, with a focus on local communities. It facilitates the application of inclusive purchasing policies by subcontracting to social and solidarity economy (SSE) organisations, such as social enterprises (EA) and sheltered workshops (Esat).
- Innovative back-to-work programmes: ViE creates innovative approaches to help people return to work, including Step, a regional employment strategy launched in France in 2017. Designed for young people between the ages of 18 to 25 who have been unemployed for two years or more, this programme involves VINCI partner companies and non-profit organisations sponsoring technical projects. Structured in three phases, it starts with three months of training, focused on soft skills (interpersonal and organisational skills) and the completion of a technical project sponsored by a non-profit (e.g. renovating a bungalow or bike shelter). This is followed by a period of immersion in a VINCI company, of varying length depending on the region. The programme ends with six months of coaching after these first two phases to support the integration of its participants in the workplace or to help map out their career plans more clearly. Around 40 young people benefited from the Step programme in 2024. Participants work under fixed-term contracts with the Group during this period, benefiting from training and preferential conditions to support their reintegration into the workplace.
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Whether they are supported by ViE or they manage integration initiatives directly, Group companies develop a proactive approach to maximise the benefits for the regions and their communities. More than simply complying with their social clause requirements, they often exceed the contractual number of hours and promote this approach with their customers, including those in the private sector.
Social joint ventures
VINCI is involved in five social joint ventures in France operating in areas that are aligned with the Group’s business activities (maintenance of workforce camps and motorway rest areas, construction site logistics, routine maintenance for infrastructure and buildings, building strip-out work, and green space maintenance). These social joint ventures aim to promote collaboration between businesses and stakeholders from the social sector to support the integration of disadvantaged populations as an extension of the Group’s business activities. These companies, which are jointly managed and whose capital is split between an integration organisation and a Group subsidiary, develop pathways to help socially excluded people into employment. To achieve this inclusion, the social joint ventures offer the advantage of combining two key components: assistance provided by social action professionals and a springboard to employment through support from a private sector organisation. Together accounting for €20 million in revenue, these social enterprises have helped 350 people back into employment.
The five social joint ventures co-founded by the Group are as follows:
- Liva, co-founded by VINCI Construction and the Ares group, specialised in construction site logistics (270 employees, including 193 on integration programmes);
- Baseo, co-founded by VINCI Construction and the Id’ees group, specialised in services for project workforce camps (90 employees, including 77 on integration programmes);
- Ïnva, co-founded by VINCI Autoroutes and the La Varappe group, specialised in service area facilities maintenance and multi-services activities (90 employees, including 45 on integration programmes);
- Tim, co-founded by VINCI Energies France and the Vitamine T group, specialised in a range of services (29 employees, including 22 on integration programmes);
- Tridev, co-founded by VINCI Construction and the Id’ees group, specialised in green space maintenance and building deconstruction (19 employees, including 13 on integration programmes). Operating in various VINCI Group businesses, the social joint ventures are renowned for their professionalism and work on iconic projects such as The Link (the future TotalEnergies headquarters) and Line 15 West of the Grand Paris Express, as well as cleaning the banks of the Rhône for Compagnie Nationale du Rhône and maintenance for the Aix-en-Provence campus of Aix-Marseille Université (AMU).
Give Me Five programme
Launched in 2018, VINCI’s Give Me Five programme addresses the challenge of providing guidance and support for the professional integration of young people aged 12 to 25 from priority neighbourhoods as defined by urban policy or rural areas across France. This initiative aims to offer these young people opportunities to explore the world of work, gain insights into careers shaping tomorrow’s cities and access internships. This programme aims to combat social inequalities and support social cohesion by promoting diversity and equal opportunities. The programme is built around five key areas for action:
- Guidance: Give Me Five supports young people aged 12 to 18 with career guidance and opportunities to discover various professions, through dedicated guidance workshops in schools as well as events for the sharing of experiences by VINCI employees and visits to the Group’s sites. This bespoke guidance initiative is being rolled out in partnership with the Ministry of National Education across France. In 2023-2024, VINCI supported more than 10,000 middle school students through this programme. From September to December 2024, VINCI also launched new guidance initiatives targeting vocational education pathways (CAP professional aptitude certificate and secondyear students) to expand the pool of beneficiaries, promote vocational training programmes, and ensure continuous support throughout their journeys.
- Individual support: The actions carried out by the non-profits Viens Voir Mon Taf and Crée Ton Avenir have continued moving forward since 2018 through educational programmes and workshops for middle school students and their teachers in charge of orientation hours. They are being deployed in schools covered by the Give Me Five programme’s orientation initiative in the Greater Paris area as well as the Hauts-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté et Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions. Each year, more than 5,000 middle school students benefit from these initiatives. From December 2024, students welcomed for placements at VINCI sites will have the opportunity to benefit from career guidance mentoring from Group employees, as part of the programme’s individual support.
- Integration: VINCI draws on the expertise built up by VINCI Insertion Emploi (ViE) to facilitate connections between 18- to 25-year-olds and recruiters from Group companies, while supporting the professional integration of young people with diverse profiles through gap year and graduate internships, from professional high school diplomas through to master’s programmes.
- Learning: Convinced of the benefits of hiring and training young people on apprenticeship programmes, for the future of the students and that of the companies and the regions where they operate, VINCI has offered the “Apprenticeships: VINCI is all in!” programme since 2021, open to all types of training (vocational certificates, professional baccalaureates, advanced technician diplomas, engineering schools). On its platform of the same name, it lists the schools and universities that offer training courses relating to VINCI’s careers, as well as the corresponding apprenticeship and professional development contracts available in Group companies. This initiative is supported by the involvement of teams from VINCI Insertion Emploi and Mozaïk RH to facilitate meetings between recruiters from Group companies and young people from priority neighbourhoods as defined by urban policy or rural areas across France during dedicated apprenticeship fairs held in Paris, Lyon, Nantes and Marseille. In 2024, around 8,000 young people were on apprenticeship or professional development contracts with a Group company.
- Employability: VINCI and the teams from VINCI Insertion Emploi (ViE) are rolling out an employability programme to help secure a return to stable employment for young people aged 18 to 25 who have been unemployed for at least two years and face a high risk of exclusion. The educational approach behind this regional employment programme, known as Step, is presented on page 262.
