2007 Interactive Registration Document - Renault

03 SOCIAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE
3.3.5 CONTRIBUTION TO CIVIL SOCIETY
3.3.5.1 THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENT
RENAULT’S COMMITMENT TO TRAINING LOW-SKILLED
YOUNG PEOPLE
For several years, Renault has been active in training low-skilled young people.
On March 24, 2005, Renault and the French Ministry of Employment, Labor
and Social Cohesion renewed for the fourth time their 1992 agreement aimed
at getting more young people into the workforce. The agreement will give
600 young people the opportunity to take training to earn their fi rst professional
qualifi cation. The program includes three to four months of training at an
industrial site, followed by a work-study contract for 12 to 24 months and
help fi nding a job. At the end of the program, participants receive either an
occupational certifi cate or a diploma recognized in multiple sectors.
More than 2,600 young people, one-fourth of them women, have already taken
part, with 80% receiving a diploma and 70% fi nding a job. Five of the Group’s
plants in France (Douai, Le Mans, Flins, Cléon, Sandouville) are participating.
ACTION FOR THE DISABLED
Renault is involved in numerous local initiatives to assist the disadvantaged.
Continuing its efforts for disabled people that began 50 years ago, Renault
publishes “En Route”, the fi rst practical guide for disabled car users (available
free of charge at Renault dealerships and downloadable in French at www.
renault.fr/handiservices. Renault’s website, www.renault.fr, also contains
practical information for disabled people.
For several years, Renault has been an active partner of the Motability car
scheme for the disabled in the UK.
Renault s.a.s. is pursuing a proactive policy for the integration of disabled
individuals in society and the workforce through a collective agreement, renewed
for three years on May 24, 2006. Under the agreement, Renault is to hire
disabled people for at least 2% of the engineering, sales and support positions
that it fi lls at sites that fall short of the 6% legal quota.
SUPPORTING EMPLOYEE START-UPS
In 1984 Renault set up a program called Cap Entreprendre to help its employees
start up new businesses.
In 2007 Renault assisted 45 start-ups in France (38 companies in 2006,
40 in 2005, 40 in 2004).
3.3.5.2 SPONSORSHIP ✦
Renault and its subsidiaries around the globe are involved in numerous
sponsorship activities. In 2007, they contributed a total of €8 million. Sponsorship
focuses on education, training and road safety as well as humanitarian, social
and cultural works adapted to the local situation. Actions are varied and refl ect
the specifi c environment of each Renault subsidiary or entity. Renault’s main
sponsorship programs are listed below: ✦
THE RENAULT FOUNDATION: BRINGING CULTURES
TOGETHER
The Renault Foundation was set up in 2001 as part of the Group’s international
strategy. It provides support to talented young people and helps them to develop
in a multicultural environment. It fosters understanding and closer ties between
different cultures as well as interaction between France and Europe and the
countries where Renault has operations.
The Renault Foundation helps to train tomorrow’s managers by organizing and
fully fi nancing three programs of study in France, all conducted in French, for
well-qualifi ed foreign students with university-level degrees from institutions
in their home country:
the Dauphine-Sorbonne-Renault MBA, created in 2002 in partnership with
the University of Paris-Dauphine and the University of Paris-Panthéon-
Sorbonne’s business school;
the Renault Foundation ParisTech Masters in Transportation and Sustainable
Development, with the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, the École
Polytechnique and the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris;
the Renault Majors Cycle, with Paris Tech and University of Paris-Panthéon-
Sorbonne.
Each year students preselected by the Foundation’s partner universities in
Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Iran, Romania, Russia, and India attend these
programs. The Foundation has already contributed to the education of some
320 students, most of them Japanese.
In June 2007 the Foundation and partners Ecole Polytechnique and HEC set up
a new course of study: Multicultural Management and Corporate Performance.
The purpose of this program, which is fully funded by the Renault Foundation, is
to develop students’ capacity during their fi nal year at HEC or Polytechnique to
understand and use managerial practices suited to the diverse economic realities
relating to national, professional and organizational culture. Activities will include
a teaching program, a group of independently conducted research projects,
and the setting up of an international network of high-caliber researchers
and institutions. The research results will be presented at colloquiums and
published.
Most of the Foundation’s work is done through its funding capacity.
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