SII : CSR brochure

Technology consulting / Digital services / IT engineering

Our approach

BROCHURE BASED ON THE 2022/2023

NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE STATEMENT

S4-0689-04, December 2023

Table of

Contents

Message from the Chairman����������������������������������������� 3 Overview of the SII Group ��������������������������������������������� 3 Our CSR approach ������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Our CSR strategy: 3 pillars and challenges���������������� 4

  1/ Continue growing: economic

and financial challenges�������������������������������������������� 5

Ecodesign and R&D ������������������������������������������������������ 6

  2/ By cultivating our DNA:

Employee-relatedchallenges����������������������������������� 7

Diversity and inclusion ������������������������������������������������ 8

  GPTW in the branches������������������������������������������������� 8

  3/ Developing a digital and sustainable world:

  Environmental and social challenges��������������������� 9

  Decarbonisation plan������������������������������������������������� 10

  Digital Responsibility ������������������������������������������������� 11

SII Corporate Foundation �������������������������������������������� 13

Materiality Matrix ��������������������������������������������������������� 14

Our Stakeholders������������������������������������������������������������ 14

Our value creation model �������������������������������������������� 15

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Eric Matteucci

Chairman of the SII Group

Management Board

Message

from the Chairman

"As part of its CSR approach, SII has chosen to focus its progress goals on sustainable development.

The SII Group's corporate culture is based on engagement, transparency, trust and professionalism. We are aware of the scope of our activities in the world and do our utmost to limit our impact.

SII is now in a position to promote its policy by working on a harmonised way forward involving the three areas of sustainable development: a fair economic policy, well thought-out environmental measures, and equity in the employee-related and social practices of our subsidiaries, branches and locations.

SII has developed its engagement in these various areas and has stepped up its dialogue with its shareholders, staff, customers and all stakeholders associated with its business.

Overview of the SII Group

Key figures

16,000	4continents	21countries 100sites
employees	% inincrease2022/23
+23.4	€	1.0225	bn in
	revenue		revenue
10,835	employees	4,194 new employees
(annual average)

Strategic sectors

Target sectors

Founded in 1979, the SII Group's mission is to support companies with the integration of new innovation management technologies, processes and methods, contribute to the development of their future products or services, and develop their information systems.

Our objective

Our goals are ambitious and have so far been achieved according to our expectations. But we do not intend to stop at this point and rest on our laurels.

For us, our social, environmental and economic advances are only the first part of our goals, the second part being to maintain these advances into the future. The advances we are making are not for the short term only; our action plans include monitoring our practices and their sustainability over time.

SII strives to be a responsible company that respects its employees,

its customers and the environment, with a humble yet ambitious approach to governance. In short, this is our approach to sustainable development, with a few key points to quantify our approach on a day-to-day basis."

Aerospace Automotive Energy	Commerce	Industry
Defence	and Retailing

Telecoms

Banking

Tourism

Health

Develop a digital and sustainable world together

and Media and Insurance

and Transport

Our labels

and certifications

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Our

CSR approach

At SII, we believe that digital technology offers opportunities

and progress, and is a key lever for meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow. This is why we are committed to giving meaning to our businesses and expertise, in order to make our own contribution to sustainably transforming our ecosystems.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility objectives combined with our commitment to the United Nations Global Compact and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals continually challenge us to promote innovative practices that provide sustainable value.

Well-being at work, fair practices, information security, environmental impact, digital responsibility and philanthropic commitment are all areas in which we are involved through concrete, inclusive and responsible projects.

These initiatives are led in a humble and collective spirit: dialogue with our key stakeholders and their involvement in this sustainable transformation process are key to meeting the challenges

of responsible digital innovation.

Our CSR strategy

3 pillars and challenges

1 Continue growing

Economic and financial challenges

2 By cultivating our DNA

Employee-related challenges

Developing a digital

3 and sustainable world

Environmental and social challenges

21 non-financial challenges

covering 10 macro-risks guide the group's CSR approach and also enable it to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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1Continue growing

Economic and financial challenges

Our commitments

Customer satisfaction

97.1% customer satisfaction rate*

SUSTAINABLE TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES

Transparency

1publication

on our contribution to sustainable activities (Green Taxonomy) in the annual financial report

Research and Development

100%

of SII RESEARCH employees trained in ecodesign

Our key initiatives

• Training and equipping teams to face the challenges of the Green Taxonomy
• Harmonisation of ISO 9001, 9100, 14001 and 27001 certifications through an integrated management system
• SII Research project in progress: modelling of SII activities, incorporating the associated environmental impacts
• Strong and regular presence of the SII
  Group in terms of CSR communication

Our results in 2022-23

• 97.1% customer satisfaction rate
• ISO 9001-9100-14001-27001 certificates
• Creation of an ecodesign training tool, available on an e-learning platform since June 2023 for SII employees

*For subsidiaries integrated into the Group Management System	5

ecodesign and R&D

Ecodesign & MyProjectImpact by SII calculator

The ecodesign of services and systems is central to SII's activities. That's why we've built the SII Ecopack, which includes:

• an initial SII best practice guideline based onthe Web Ecodesign Guidelineand the AFNOR 2201 specification
• training materials and summary sheets (see page 13)
• a dashboard for monitoring the Digital Responsibility maturity of projects

In partnership with Digital4Better,

SII has also developed an environmental impact calculator for its activities and services. Called MyProjectImpact by SII, it takes into account a wide range of areas across the entire lifecycle.

This will enable us to measure the progress of our approach and guide the strategic and technical choices we make in our

IT resources and services.

Ecodesign

in R&D

Ecodesign is an integral part of our R&D projects (SII Research), to develop our expertise, innovate and continue being a source of ideas for our partners in the face of today's and tomorrow's challenges.

The goal of the exercise is for all SII Research employees to receive in-house training.

The assessment of innovation projects includes their impact in terms of possible benefits for the environment.

Examples include:

• IT for Green: flight plan optimisation algorithms to reduce fuel consumption, intelligent home automation for energy management in offices.
• Ecodesign: modelling activities and their environmental footprint, assessing the digital footprint in the design phase.

Marie-Laure Tall

R&D Project Manager,

SII Research

What is your background?

After more than ten years of Java development experience, I joined SII Rhône-Alpes six years ago as Product Owner. In 2021, I had the opportunity to join SII Research. Today I divide my time between coordinating the Future City cluster and leading the AI4UTG (AI for unit test generation) and EcoDev (ecodesign and application development) R&D projects.

How did you get involved in ecodesign?

The EcoDev (Ecodesign and Application Development) subject was suggested to us by the SII community of experts.

At the time, I had no particular experience in the field, but I was able to build up my skills by working with Yoan Denis, Scrum Master at SII Sud-Ouest, who conducted a state-of-the-art study on the subject.

What is the EcoDev project about?

The aim of the project is to enable the software application teams to consider the digital footprint of the solutions they produce right from the development process, and thus assess an application's ecological impact right from the development phase.

How do the development teams perceive ecodesign?

Like many R&D projects, EcoDev regularly involves SII employees on an inter-contract basis. The developers we've had the opportunity to work with are sometimes slightly reticent about ecodesign, which can be seen as another constraint in their day-to-day work. It's an opportunity to make them aware of the challenges, the upskilling opportunities and the changes taking place in their profession.

Over the last few years, quality and then safety have had a similar impact on the development professions, and both are now integrated into all processes. The same will soon apply to ecodesign.

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2By cultivating our DNA

Employee-related challenges

Our commitments

Commitment

2Group-wide

CSR events

Our key initiatives

Our results in 2022-23

Diversity / Inclusion / Equality

1initiative

to combat stereotypes at each of the sites.

Development / Retention / Attractiveness

100%

GPTW renewal

for Group subsidiaries already awarded the label.

• Local Quality of Life at Work working groups involving employees
  (intrapreneurship)
• Partnership with Jhô, a Nantes-based company, to highlight the problems associated with endometriosis and set up self-service dispensers for sanitary supplies in the workplace.
• Regular participation in sporting events associated with causes (cancer, disability, etc.) and promotion of sport in businesses.
• Signing of the LGBT+ Charter
  of Commitment with the association autre cercle

• Organisation of two international CSR events (Digital Clean Up Day, European
  Mobility Week)
• 84% employee satisfaction
  (GPTW Trust Index)
• 75.5% of employees educated about CSR

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Diversity and inclusion

Raphaëlle Martin

Danika Broustail

Communications Officer,

SII Atlantique

Head of Diversity and Inclusion,

What are your responsibilities at SII?

SII Head Office

I'm the FeelGood Officer at the SII Atlantique branch (Nantes, Tours and

Niort). My tasks range from onboarding new employees to organising

What is your role at SII?

technical, fun and CSR events. The other half of my work also involves

the branch's internal and external communications.

I've been working at the SII Group head office since December 2018. My main

responsibilities involve the Diversity and Inclusion Mission at a national level,

What actions are you taking in line

in collaboration with the diversity and inclusion leads at each branch. They play

with our CSR strategy?

a key role in maintaining an inclusive working environment, as they're the ones

who assist our employees on a daily basis.

For the last two years, I've been organising "Olympiads" to unite employees

around a common cause, so that it's fun and fosters team spirit in favour

Which Diversity and Inclusion Mission project

of a societal cause. Teams of employees take part in a variety of activities

do feel particularly strongly about?

(sports, gaming, creativity, cooking, etc.) in support of a local charity

that works in the public interest. The SII Group makes a donation

There are lots of projects, each of which is just as valuable as the next, but I have to admit

to the charity supported by the team that wins the championship.

that my meetings with inspiring people with disabilities, through live events open to all our

In 2022, we presented a cheque for €3,000 to the association

employees, are the projects that are closest to my heart. With their varied backgrounds

La Cale 2 l'île, which works to conserve the maritime river

and interests, these guests reach a different audience each time as they raise awareness

heritage, while supporting people in difficulty and contributing

about disability. I always get feedback from employees who feel these meetings have made

to the development of social, educational and cultural programmes.

an impact on them. It's important to remember that disability is an integral part of life

at work, which is a reflection of the society we live in.

Lastly, I lead the collaborative continuous improvement workstreams,

which we call "MySII" and which began in 2018. We are now in our sixth

year, and this annual work, based on the results of the Great Place To

Alongside these awareness-raising initiatives, what are SII's other goals?

Work questionnaire, has enabled us to implement a number of changes

that are still in place today. Any employee can take part in a working

group to study, develop and propose changes to the organisation or

At SII, we're committed to implementing awareness-raising initiatives to help our working environment become ever more

managerial practices that will then be rolled out.

inclusive and mutually respectful. As part of this drive, the Disability Mission has become the Diversity and Inclusion Mission

in order to promote diversity, the prevention of discrimination and professional equality within the company in a broader and

more all-encompassing way in the SII group, while continuing to take action to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities,

of course. The SII Group is a company that welcomes people with disabilities, and since 2008 we have been actively recruiting,

in the branches

integrating and retaining people with disabilities.

GPTW

As a company with strong human values, we have been a signatory of the Diversity Charter for several years, and due to this

desire to maintain an inclusive working environment in a climate of respect and attentiveness we recently signed the LGBT+

Commitment Charter with the association autre cercle.

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Environmental and social challenges

3Developing a digital and sustainable world 

Our commitments

Digital responsibility

90%

of purchases eco-labelled

for SII monitors and computers.

+20%

of employees Educated about Digital Responsibility*.

SUSTAINABLE TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES

Carbon footprint / Decarbonisation

-10%

energy consumption.

1policy

on business travel deployed at all sites

Our key initiatives

• Deployment of an energy efficiency plan
• Responsible Purchasing Charter
• Electrification of the vehicle fleet
• Selection of new energy-efficient buildings for the branches

Our results in 2022-23

• 93% of IT equipment purchases eco-labelled
• 62% of employees educated about digital responsibility
• 3.78 T of CO2 eq. / FTE / year (France)

*Compared to the 2022-2023 financial year	9

Decarbonisation plan

Our France 2022-2023 footprint breaks down as follows*:

During the 2022-2023 financial year, we revised our GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions inventory methodology by broadening our sources of emissions (particularly financial ratios). To this end, we took part in the first edition of the Climate Accelerator of the Global Compact France Network to integrate the GHG Protocol methodology and define decarbonisation targets in line with the Science- Based Targets (SBTi) requirements.

Scope 1 **

Scope 2

Scope 3

4.7%SII vehicle fleet

0.4%Electricity

Our reduction targets*** for 2030 are as follows, based on a series of structuring actions and integrating our value chain:

Stephan

51.2%Goods and services purchased

6.4%Property purchased

-45% 1

in scopes

Optimise the movements

of the fleet vehicles (eco-driving)

Electrify the vehicle fleet

-25% 3

in scope

Implement a Business Travel Policy + an Employer Mobility Plan

Palmade

Director of the Telecom cluster, SII Île-de-France

3%

(premises, IT equipment)

(electric charging points + car policy)

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100%

Business travel

34.1%Home-work commuting

and 2

Encourage less carbon-intensive mobility between home and work

Continue the initiatives

of the Energy Efficiency Plan

Optimise work areas (occupancy) and IT equipment (lifespan)

Source renewable energyPurchase responsibly (Responsible Purchasing

(with a guarantee of origin)Charter, eco-labelled computers and monitors)

Our Decarbonation Plan reasserts the SII Group's CSR

convictions. It also helps to achieve our goals on a daily basis:

• By building loyalty among our existing teams and attracting

new talent increasingly sensitive to environmental issues.

• By having a positive impact on achieving our customers'

and partners' CO2 emissions reduction targets in Scope 3.

• By being an important decision-making criterion

*Calculated in accordance with the GHG Protocol methodology

**Scope 1: direct greenhouse gas emissions produced by the company.

Scope 2: indirect energy-related emissions that do not occur directly on the company's site.

Scope 3: indirect emissions that are not under the company's control.

***Targets defined in accordance with the recommendations of the Science Based Targets initiative, based on the 2019-2020 reference year

Challenge our subcontractors on their footprint and their reduction commitments

for our customers on structured files.

In addition to the decarbonisation plan, we are providing	"
a growing number of services to assist our customers
in the ecodesign of their networks and applications and
the optimisation of emissions from their infrastructures.

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