Community

Gemalto aims to make a positive contribution to the communities in which we operate. We help our employees to support local programs they feel strongly about. As a company we also make financial donations to specific causes and relief efforts.

By recruiting and training individuals in the countries where we do business, as well as organizing volunteering, we encourage local economies and support social development.

Support for employee volunteering

Many of our employees have long been involved in activities supporting their local communities. In 2008 we decided to encourage their efforts in a more focused way by launching a company-wide program, “Your World”. Its aim is two-fold – to support local communities worldwide and to harness our employees’ passion and commitment through opportunities to champion causes they care about.

We support projects employees’ involvement in local non-profit organizations which focus on the environment and humanitarian activities. We invite those interested in Your World funding to apply as individuals or as a team by sending a project description to a regional panel of local managers and employees.

We select projects carefully, excluding any political or trade union body. For individual projects, the main criterion is the strong personal involvement of the employee in the organization. For group projects, the program should also provide opportunities for team building. Funds allocated to each project vary from 100 to 2,000 euros.

In the three years since we first launched Your World, we have supported 198 projects worldwide.

In 2010 we invested € 53,800 in Your World projects. The decrease in the number of funded projects in 2010 is the direct result of narrowing Your World’s scope to include only those with a social, humanitarian or environmental focus. So we will only now fund sports activities if they’re linked to a cause. A race organized to raise money for cancer research is one example.

This means that if we compare “like for like”, excluding 2009 sports projects, the total of supported projects increased from 38 to 58 in 2010.

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Your world team

Since the launch of Your World two years ago, more and more employees have applied for project funding in groups.
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Focus on your world team