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. For example, through a partnership with the Centro de Integração Empresa-Escola (CIEE), VINCI Airports in Salvador, Brazil, offers an apprenticeship programme for young people from disadvantaged and vulnerable backgrounds. Over a period of up to 20 months, participants gain professional experience and the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the job market, with the possibility of being hired at the end of the programme depending on the positions available.
VINCI is aware of the importance of fully integrating its social responsibility commitments into its activities and the way it does business. To strengthen its impact, the Group thus promotes civic engagement among its teams and focuses the efforts of its corporate foundations and endowment funds on these 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 built around 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 an in-house network of more than 120 foundation ambassadors, appointed from employees across the Group. Their role includes raising awareness of the foundation among their colleagues, encouraging them to get involved and improving follow-up on the actions carried out, while 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 (37 selection committee meetings in 2025).
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. To date, this programme has benefited a total of 49 communities in France, including four in 2025 (Besançon, Limoges, Metz and Rouen), as well as another 10 around the world.
Since 2002, the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité has supported over 5,000 projects and more than 13,000 initiatives have been carried out by employees of companies across the VINCI Group , with nearly €74 million of total funding provided. As one of France’s largest private foundations in terms of both the funds deployed and the number of projects supported, it illustrates the Group’s commitment to engaging its employees and ensuring that its actions are closely aligned with communities over the long term.
To adapt to local contexts, its model has been developed outside of France. Around the world, this network covers 18 countries through 16 foundations and similar entities. In 2025, there were over 2,500 employee participations in projects. Group companies contributed over €7 million to these 16 entities in 2025, supporting more than 600 projects around local development, access to essential services, and the social and professional integration of disadvantaged people, with a focus on young people and particularly underprivileged communities.
