Thales Solidarity Programme

 

In 2019, Thales redefined its social engagement strategy in order to integrate all of the Group's solidarity actions around common areas of intervention and criteria to increase societal impact.

This change follows the overview of the Thales Foundation, created in 2014.  After 5 years of significant achievements, the Thales Foundation is evolving to meet the expectations of the Group’s employees’ and support the societal transformations of a more responsible world.

To achieve this, the Group's social engagement actions will now focus on the following three areas of intervention:

  • Education and professional integration through technology
  • Tech for the Environment
  • Digital citizenship

 

This new strategy, called the Thales Solidarity Programme, aims to align all the actions supported throughout the Group in accordance with unified and rigorous selection and reporting criteria. 

Within this framework, the "Tech for Solidarity" charitable fund will replace the Thales Foundation in financing programmes with a strong social impact and, initiatives that promote employee engagement, guaranteeing the transparency and proper follow-up required by such a charitable structure.

A digital platform will be launched in the third quarter of 2019 to support volunteer engagement by presenting all the projects and volunteer missions supported throughout the Group, worldwide.

Tech & Education Alliance
 

The Tech & Education Alliance is one of the initiatives supported under the Thales Solidarity Programme. It was co-created and launched with 5 other partner companies in May 2019 at the Tech for Good Summit.

Alongside Accenture, Airbus, Engie, IBM and Sanofi, the Thales Group is committed to promoting initiatives through education that make technology and science accessible to all.

Based on the experiences and educational programs supported by each company, the shared commitment aims to:

1. Promote the volunteer work and employee engagement in the field of Science and Technology Education.

2. Commit to reinforcing our actions to scale-up our most effective initiatives in France, across all regions where our companies are active.

3. Share available Digital and Engineering resources and tools.

 

 

To promote these new collaborations in favour of the development of interest in Science and Technology in France, the Thales group has chosen to open to its partners the “Savanturiers du Numérique et des Technologies” (Science adventurers in Digital and Technology) ” Programme developed by the CRI in partnership with the Thales Foundation since 2015.

Discover the full commitment on the "Alliance Tech & Education" website.