European Employee Volunteering Awards Case Study Index

• ABN AMRO (Netherlands) - The Impact of Corporate Social Engagement

  The ABN AMRO Foundation (AAF) manages the corporate community investment programme of ABN AMRO bank. Its focus is on supporting vulnerable youth and helping start micro-entrepreneurs, so that the youngsters, entrepreneurs and the employee will all benefit

• Alcatel-Lucent (France) - Equal Talent

  Through the programme, Alcatel-Lucent aims to help change attitudes by giving disabled students the possibility of reaching tertiary education, and acquiring skills which are valued in the workplace

• Arzum Elektrikli Ev Aletleri (Arzum Electrical Household Appliances, Turkey) - Visually Impaired Leaders

  The main purpose of the project is to increase the employability skills of visually impaired people

• Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A (Poland) - CITI Handlowy Employee Volunteering

  The Employee Volunteering Program at Citi Handlowy was launched in 2005 as the first structured employee program of this type in Poland. It inspires employees’ involvement in social initiatives, providing them with adequate tools, financial and logistic support, supporting activities benefiting those in need.

• Barclays (Spain) - Barclays, corporate volunteers; improving employability

  Investment in our communities is an integral part of the Barclays’ Responsible Banking strategy. The Barclays’ Community Investment strategy focuses on social integration and employability of people at risk of exclusion

• Belgrade City Markets (Serbia) - Volunteer centre

  Belgrade City Markets designed a project to tackle barriers to employment.

• Belgrade Youth Office (Serbia) - Internship fair

  Internship Fair is an annual event where a large number of companies, organizations and institutions inform students, graduates and postgraduates about opportunities to attend internships with them.

• BMW AG (Germany) - BMW Group Graduate Programme

  The BMW Group Graduate Programme is the BMW Group's international trainee programme for graduates

• bplusd Agenturgruppe (Germany) - 1,000 days’ holiday for kids

  The primary objective of the programme is to step in and enable children to have a holiday during which they can gain new experiences in a care-free and positive environment.

• BT Spain (Spain) - INFORMATIZ@TE

  The objective of the BT Foundation in cooperation with the Volunteers for Madrid Foundation and the Education, Culture and Sustainability Association, in San Cristobál de los Ángeles is to support and widen the education efforts undertaken in this area of Madrid

• Česká spořitelna, a.s. (Czech Republic ) - We help our employees help others

  Since 2007, Česká spořitelna have allocated to each of their employees 2 days per year for voluntary work with an NGO of their choice

• Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG, Deutsche Börse Group, Fidelity International - FIL Investment Services GmbH, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Linklaters LLP (Germany) - Job application tr

  Approximately 60% of unemployed teenagers in Frankfurt are from an immigrant background. In response, Citigroup, Deutsche Börse, Fidelity International, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have supported young people from Frankfurt since 2005, in the transition between school and working life with the ENGAGE job application training

• Coca Cola (France) - Passport to Employment

  The programme, initiated in 2003, focuses on employment for young people from disadvantaged suburbs and is an integral part of the Group’s diversity policy

• Coca Cola Hellenic (Serbia) - University partnership

  “University partnership” is a collaborative programme signed between Coca-Cola Hellenic Serbia and the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, one of the leading educational institutions in the area of business and information technologies.

• Commercial Bank Romana (Romania) - Start! Young people who want to start a business.

  The project provides students with the know-how for developing and piloting a product or service within a real micro-enterprise, under the guidance of BCR consultants. The project addresses the lack of an entrepreneurial culture among students and the gap between formal education and business realities.

• Crédit Suisse (Switzerland) - Fit for the economy

  The Program “Fit for the Economy” helps secondary-school students (aged 15 –17) to manage various economic aspects of their lives better.

• Dalkia Česká republika (Czech Republic) - Help for People with Good Ideas

  The objective Dalkia Česká republika’s “Help for People with Good Ideas” programme is to create long-term jobs and to prevent the social exclusion of unemployed people, unemployment being one of the most serious social problems in the country.

• Deloitte (France) - Twinning Programme

  The twinning project, managed by the Deloitte Foundation, re-emphasises the firm’s goal of campaigning for equality of opportunity and a reduction in social breakdown.

• Diageo Ireland (Ireland) - Arthur Guinness Fund Support Programme

  The Arthur Guinness Programme is designed to support social enterprises to deliver positive impact in Ireland

• Edison (Italy) - Insieme per Haiti

  Edison decided to support ANPIL (Amici Nella Promozione Internazionale Lasalliana), who’s been operating in Haiti since 20 years now, in taking care of all the children who were left orphan and host them through the project “Insieme per Haiti” in their Port de Paix reception camp.

• Eesti Energia (Estonia) - Future Employee Program (FEP) and ENTRUM

  ENTRUM aims to teach young people in an active and exciting way to be entrepreneurial, take initiative and become more involved in the world around them

• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (Belgium) - Discover Your Talent

  The objectives are to encourage employees to dedicate some of their time to social projects and to create awareness for employability issues in less favoured urban areas.

• Galopin Parques (Spain) - Promotion and Sustainability of Employment for Rural Residents

  Its CSR program provides stable employment to people with fewer employment opportunities: residents in rural areas (73% of the workforce), especially women (50%, including at executive level).

• Grupo Vips (Spain) - Employee Volunteering: supporting the socio-economic integration strategy

  The volunteering strategy of Grupo Vips focuses mainly on developing recreational and training activities with people with learning disabilities or people at risk of social exclusion, with the aim of helping to achieve a culture of acceptance, integration into society and employment

• Gruppo Filo Diretto (Italy) - Filo Diretto Onlus

  FDO projects are addressed to give assistance to children in need and their family first of all regarding all that concerns vital and basic necessities, like food and health.

• Institute Kosmos (Netherlands) - Pico Bello

  The institute offers the Pico Bello project where disadvantaged girls and young women are offered training and education

• John Lewis Partnership – Glasgow Store (Scotland) - Mentoring programme

  The scheme aims to meet with third/fourth year pupils in order to improve their understanding and awareness of business, raise self-belief and motivation as indicated by timekeeping and attendance rates at the schoo

• Kyivstar (Ukraine) - Volunteer Institute at Kyivstar: We Believe that Care Changes the World

  In 2010 Kyivstar focuses on supporting children with visual impairments by providing access to education and development which will help those children to increase their employment opportunities in future

• L’Oréal (Switzerland) - L’Oréal Self-Esteem Workshop

  This programme aims to rebuild the self-esteem and self-confidence of the target group. It’s a multi-stakeholder approach as it federates 3 NPOs working with vulnerable women and a multi-level approac

• Magistrate of the City of Wiesbaden, Office for Social Affairs (Germany) – Corporate Citizenship Strategy for Wiesbaden

  The key element of the strategy is to promote community engagement among corporate employees. The corporate citizenship service office has a mandate for the development of implementation schemes and their execution at an operational level.

• Magyar Telekom (Hungary) - Jövő/Menő programme

  Our expressed goal is to strengthen positive connotations of the brand and to integrate the concept of sustainability into the brand.

• Manpower (Greece) - Sharing the Knowledge: Building Bridges to Employment

  Since 2007, Manpower Hellas has been implementing the “Sharing the Knowledge – Building Bridges to Employment” programme, a multi-dimensional voluntary action programme aimed at creating opportunities for employment, with special emphasis on socially vulnerable groups that experience exclusion from the labour market more intensely

• Medical University of Lodz (Poland) - Employee Volunteering Programme

  The employees who declare active participation in the employee volunteering programme for the Caritas Home Hospice Teams sign individual contracts with Caritas on activity or competence volunteering

• Microsoft Belux (Belgium) - The Employee Volunteering Programme

  The Employee Volunteering Programme is an excellent opportunity for their employees to develop their personal skills and be ambassadors of our Citizenship/CSR programmes and helps make Microsoft a trusted advisor and partner on Child Online Safety.

• MIG Group of Companies (Greece) - Environmental awareness against poverty

  In a time of financial crisis for the Greek Economy, MIG Companies decided to support and to integrate social excluded people back to the society

• Municipality of Amsterdam, Department Citizenship and Diversity (Netherlands) - Heart for Amsterdam

  Heart for Amsterdam’ is used by the municipality (citizenship and diversity unit) to promote how the city council stimulates companies to strengthen their corporate citizenship in and for the city of Amsterdam

• National Joint Stock Insurance Company Oranta (Ukraine) - Development of Young Professionals and forming a pool of talented youth in Ukraine

  . The purpose of Oranta's volunteer program is, first, to enable young professionals, students and senior students to test themselves in a real environment as insurance agents, financial sector or information technology workers

• Orion Nova s.r.o. (Slovakia) - Luctor et Emergo (I struggle but I will survive)

  The Luctor et Emergo programme sees Orion Nova providing training and education through employment for the people from the orphanage shelter Dom na polceste

• První chodská stavební společnost, spol. s r. o. (Czech Republic) - Schody Do Života – Stairs into Life

  The challenge for the programme is to retain the boys on the programme and bring through a new generation of apprentices and craftsmen who can be employed by the company.

• RPG Real Estate (Czech Republic) - Work, live and enjoy together

  Over 180 RPG employees with more than 200 local inhabitants worked on projects cleaning public spaces, painting houses and planting trees

• System Capital Management (Ukraine) - Project Formula-S

  Project goals include providing the best students of leading universities with opportunities to take master classes run by senior managers, receive knowledge and skills from first hands, set priorities in their education and career development, and contact directly the management of major Ukrainian companies and organizations

• Terna (Italy) - Kami Project

  Working with the Italian non-profit organization COOPI, Terna’s employee played an active part in a solidarity project conducted in the Kami area of Bolivia

• UBS (Italy) - Community Affairs Program

  The Employees’ volunteering scheme is part of the broad Community Affairs programme of UBS. Its mission is: combating educational underachievement, supporting community empowerment and improving employability prospects

• VIP mobile (Serbia) - Be a VIP student

  The project is dedicated to the development of future experts and leaders in the area of telecommunications in Serbia.

• Wissol Group (Georgia) - Wissol CSR activities

  As Georgia is a developing country with unemployment a major issue, supporting community welfare and creating employment and career development opportunities for young and excluded people has became a corner stone of Wissol CSR activities.

• Zapadoslovenská energetika, a.s. (Slovakia) - Energy for best young ideas

  The Best Idea programme is aimed at a target group of secondary vocational students, who have the potential to develop their technical and innovative skills together with business thinking in order to prepare for a future career.

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