Wide range of initiatives supporting vulnerable populations
In addition to these core actions across the Group’s operations in France, a wide range of initiatives are developed by Group companies around the world with the same commitment to supporting vulnerable populations, in line with their business activities. These actions are rolled out around the specific issues identified in the various communities, from professional integration for the long-term unemployed and refugees to job opportunities for women and even access to formal employment.
One example is the Semillero Rosa programme rolled out by VINCI Construction Grands Projets in connection with the Bogotá–Girardot highway project in Colombia. This initiative offers opportunities for women living in nearby communities to receive training for careers in the construction industry. These women are able to study on site in certified training centres. They are employed by the project, which funds their training. In 2024, more than 110 women benefited from access to training for one of the five positions offered: heavy machinery operators, heavy vehicle drivers, mechanics, construction agents and welders. The training delivered under this programme includes certification, allowing the women to bring their civil engineering expertise to a sector that is dominated to a great extent by men. It is also helping to fight the gender prejudice seen in public works activities. This programme has moved forward thanks to the local social actions carried out with communities affected by the project.
Corporate citizenship also focused on supporting regional development and cohesion
VINCI is aware of the importance of fully integrating its corporate social responsibility commitments into its activities and the way it does business. To maintain consistency and strengthen its impact, the Group also promotes civic engagement among its teams and focuses the efforts of its corporate foundations and endowment funds on these same issues relating to regional cohesion, inclusion and the fight against social inequalities. The Group’s solidarity actions support local projects that also aim to facilitate social and professional integration for underprivileged people.
These foundations, endowment funds, programmes and initiatives include those presented below.
Fondation VINCI pour la Cité
Launched in 2002, the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité is the VINCI Group’s corporate foundation, which supports initiatives to help ensure the social and professional integration of the most disadvantaged people in France and French overseas communities around four pillars – guidance and employment, social links in underprivileged communities, social housing, and solidarity mobility – while building engagement among the Group’s teams.
Since 2017, the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité has put in place a decentralised organisation, with six regional managers who work closely with the various stakeholders. This organisation helps build more in-depth knowledge of local stakeholders, especially from the non-profit sector, as well as the priority challenges faced and the stakes involved. These arrangements are further enhanced with a network of more than 120 foundation ambassadors, appointed from employees across the Group. Their role is to support project initiators, encourage their colleagues to get involved and improve follow-up on the actions carried out, ensuring that they are closely aligned with local needs.
Prioritising streamlined processes for taking decisions and looking to coordinate the various actions, regional selection committees are set up to review requests for support and help develop partnerships with non-profits. These selection committees enable applications to be submitted at regional level several times a year (39 selection committee meetings per year).
The foundation has also developed other ways of taking action, enabling it to ensure that its initiatives are closely aligned with the needs of communities on the ground, including the Cité Solidaire programme. Launched in 2010 to support actions to build stronger social connections, focusing in particular on non-profit organisations taking action at local level with disadvantaged communities, this programme is based on regional calls for projects, with support from the municipalities concerned. A total of 45 metropolitan areas have benefited from this programme in France since its launch, including three in 2024 (Avignon, Le Havre and Pau), alongside nine in other countries.
