ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 We are seeing the effects of this commitment in differences as factors for innovation, creativity and consumption - linked to the effects of energy 2023 and therefore wanted to provide an account development. efficiency projects and an increase in the share of of them already in the pages of this Report. In 2022, women made up over 31% of the Group’s energy from renewable sources. Over the last few months, all ESG-related topics employees: a significant share, which we aim to Indeed, we have certified 89% of our electricity experienced an increasingly significant upgrade: increase even further, with the goal of reaching supply as coming from renewable sources; we from Diversity-Equity & Inclusion to welfare, 35% by the end of 2025. In the course of the year, have embarked upon a sustainable procurement Letter to occupational health and safety, the environment, we hired around 1800 people in Italy, including path, which in 2023 gave rise to our partnership privacy issues and IT security. more than 500 women. Young people under 30 with Open-es as lead company and the years of age have increased by 33%. progressive involvement of our supply chain in Stakeholder Over the last year, we continued to promote 2022 was also a year full of initiatives that bore ESG factors. the digital transition to foster innovation and fruit in the early months of 2023: reorganization by Maximo Ibarrasustainability in our internal processes and processes were introduced to improve the In April 2023 we launched a project to develop services as well as in institutions and businesses.company’s job architecture and personnel a decarbonization strategy and plan for the We made additional investments in the policies, with initiatives aimed at encouraging the Group companies at global level, which calls for development of our professional skills and in the hiring of people with disabilities, as well as welfare the establishment of emission reduction targets GRI 2-22external spread of IT Education. With over 33,000 actions intended to make Engineering an inclusive aligned with the SBTi framework (Science-Based training days, our Academy is one of the leading and open place. Target initiative), by the end of 2024. The year 2022 saw many factors at play at Corporate Schools on Information Technology in The 2022 Sustainability Report aims to tell the the political, economic and social level, which Italy: and just recently we obtained the Best HR We also developed and implemented highly story of how our commitment today is rooted further tested the transformational capacity and Team Award of HRC, which ranked our Company sophisticated internal management and control in every aspect of our policies and procedures resilience of companies. in first place in the Learning category. systems intended to guarantee the utmost and is integrated into our business. The digital Letter to Stakeholder The effects of the pandemic, which have not Our upskilling and reskilling courses, in security and integrity of the data that our transformation, which represents the core yet been fully overcome, the seriousness of a conjunction with employer branding and talent customers and partners entrust us with. We business of Engineering, is a key lever capable war in Europe, which sadly continues to rage attraction strategies, and along with our intense collaborate with industry experts and adopt of providing answers to social and environmental on, and the actions taken by central banks in research activity, enable us to offer innovative, the most advanced technologies to protect challenges, including for our customers. an attempt to limit price inflation, are leading us high-quality solutions and services to more than our infrastructure, systems and sensitive data. Sustainability is not only a business responsibility, to predict a highly complex scenario over the one thousand customers operating in a variety Furthermore, we have taken actions to promote IT but also a shared challenge in our value chain, coming months, in which it will be fundamental of sectors, from the Public Administration to the security awareness amongst our employees and which will therefore require the collaboration of to identify the right priorities.private sector. associates. all of our stakeholders, with which we will be even Letter to Stakeholder more open to dialog in 2023, to build partnerships In these circumstances, it is necessary to Our company’s mission is led by the desire In terms of governance, in 2022 Engineering to achieve shared goals, including as part of abandon a conservative approach and privilege to bring about a profound change that makes added to its Code of Ethics following a sustainability networks such as the Foundation decisions that strengthen competitiveness: it possible to face environmental, social and rigorous gap analysis. In particular, the Group’s for Digital Sustainability, of which Engineering is a the digital and environmental transition, economic challenges in line with the objectives commitment to rejecting all types of recourse to member. energy efficiency, training, a new way of of the United Nations Sustainable Development or support of the use of child labor was made organizing work, the demographic crisis and Goals and the principles of the UN Global even clearer; the reference to the freedom of The complex challenges that await us require the implementation of new cutting-edge Compact, with which we have renewed our association was reinforced; a reference to the participation and collaboration, and can represent technologies, so that they become really membership every year since 2021, participating international regulation on respect for human an opportunity for improvement if we are ready inclusive and help us to simplify work and our in the initiatives promoted, such as the Target rights was explicitly included, through compliance to embrace change and reconsider entrenched personal lives, are some of the main policies that Gender Equality Accelerator. Our commitment with the conventions of the International Labor models. should be guiding us in the near future and are is oriented towards improving living conditions, Organization (ILO), the Universal Declaration of Engineering will continue to be on the front lines consistently present in the strategy of the Group promoting universal, safe access to medical Human Rights, international standards on human in supporting research into the most efficient that I have the honor of leading.treatment, optimizing energy resources and rights and national legislation on labor and non-transformation models and the development of introducing innovative services, with a view to discrimination. collaborations with leading industry operators, The year 2022 was an important one for the contributing to a fair and inclusive society. pursuing these goals with the full support of establishment of Engineering in the Italian Engineering is a robustly human capital Group In 2022, we also attributed even greater shareholders and sharing the process with our public and economic fabric as a reference that values and encourages talent and personal significance to sustainability in our company’s main stakeholders, customers, suppliers and industrial player in the digital transformation, well-being. We have developed and consolidated governance, actively involving the top employees. but also in the company’s path of consolidating our 2022-2025 HR strategy by introducing strong management in this process and, progressively, sustainability projects based on ESG targets Diversity, Equity & Inclusion oversight. We aim every level of the organization. This decision and shared with stakeholders, customers and with conviction, also through targeted initiatives, accelerated the achievement of important Maximo Ibarra shareholders.at creating an inclusive environment that values objectives, such as lower Data Center electricity Engineering CEO & General Manager 6 Engineering © Engineering © 7