Local Communities

Alstom seeks to make a positive impact on disadvantaged local communities, improving their living conditions and their socio-economic standing through pragmatic dialogue, by encouraging employee awareness and employee involvement in various volunteering and charitable activities, and by allowing the use of company property or by giving employees the time to participate.

Alstom’s employees get involved in fund-raising events such as charity runs, bike race, walks or sale of products. But overall, Alstom addresses social needs through its support to charities and through community project support.

Alstom has apprentice and internship programmes in place in several countries which are often focused on young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Mentorship is also a common practice. For instance, as part of the relationship with the Prince Noura University in Saudi Arabia, Alstom participated in a Career Day to provide free career consultations to visiting students and showcase our career opportunities. Alstom also hosted female students at our Riyadh Metro facility to introduce Alstom and expose students to green mobility.

These actions frequently involve partnerships with local institutions, the training of internal mentors, and the development of a training plan. The aim is for apprentices to learn a trade as leverage for future employment – whether in Alstom or elsewhere. Training can be full or part time and of different durations. 

In Spain, Alstom has put in place several initiatives with schools to support students such as the 4° ESO+Empressas programme, a collaboration between schools & companies to help students in their orientation & future career during three days.

By providing mobility solutions worldwide, the Group anchors its projects in local economies. Alstom is able to meet local content requirements especially from public procurement policies, to comply with demanding regulations, to respond to localisation conditions from institutions/States/Cities financing the projects, as well as to satisfy growing expectations from its customers and stakeholders on local footprint.

Its contribution to economic and social development includes a wide range of initiatives, such as: employment, trainings, investments at the local level, or collaboration with small, medium and large local companies, start-ups, innovation clusters, associations, universities, inclusive actions, as well as the development of relations with regional economic stakeholders. 

Here are a few examples of how we encourage the development of local enterprises:

In India, Alstom has extended its partnership with NSRCEL, the startup hub at IIMM Bangalore, to implement a Sustainability Incubation Programme and support startups and innovation in the fields of electric mobility, last-mile connectivity, green buildings, logistics and supply chain.

In Sweden, Alstom continues to foster innovation through Ignite matchmaking network to help start-ups land projects, deals or clients.

Several countries organised volunteer days in order to clean places. In Mexico, in collaboration with the GMA Foundation, Alstom employees collected 760 kg of garbage through a 6 km cleanup on the Telhac beach (Yucatan).