Selection criteria
•    The projects selected promote the social and professional integration of people facing exclusion, or work to prevent young people from dropping out of education.
•    The projects are located in countries where Eiffage has a permanent presence, so that they can be monitored locally.
•    The Eiffage Foundation mainly provides funding for investment purposes, always as part of co-financing arrangements, up to one third of the project’s total budget.
•    The person submitting the project is personally and actively involved in the association.
•    The association or organisation developing the project must have a genuine vocation of general interest, be of proven social benefit and managed on a non-profit basis.
•    The Selection Committee takes into account the project’s diversity of partners, its clarity and coherence, its feasibility, as well as its innovative and exemplary nature.

Stages in the selection process
 
•    Project review: Funding applications are sent to the Foundation by the employee. The Foundation team makes an initial selection of applications, based on the selection criteria.
•    Meeting with the project organiser: The Foundation team meets with the representative of the association and the sponsor at the project’s location. This first meeting serves to validate the feasibility of the project and to envisage possible partnerships according to specific needs.
•    Presentation to the selection committee: A summary of the project is prepared by the Foundation and sent to the Selection Committee. The Committee meets three times a year to decide on the allocation of funding. The projects can be accepted unconditionally, accepted subject to certain conditions, be the object of recommendations, or rejected. The Committee is made up of around fifteen people: members of the Board of Directors (including four qualified experts) and various HR representatives from the Group.
•    Setting up the partnership: If the Selection Committee agrees to fund the project, a three-party partnership agreement is signed by the representative of the organisation, the employee / retiree project supporter and the Foundation. The agreement specifies the amount of funding and the respective commitments of each party. 

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