Tangible socio-economic benefits
VINCI Concessions plays an active role in transforming regions. Economic, social and environmental momentum builds up around its infrastructure, creating quantifiable and tangible benefits for the prosperity of the region or country. Three airports operated by VINCI Airports in three different capitals therefore achieved record traffic numbers in 2024, with 26 million passengers handled at Santiago airport in Chile, 16 million at Edinburgh in the UK and 8 million at Belgrade in Serbia. In Colombia, the modernisation and expansion carried out by VINCI Highways in synergy with VINCI Construction of the Bogotá-Girardot highway, a vital route for the national economy, reached the 60% completion milestone in 2024. In the long term, the project is expected to generate 14,000 indirect jobs and increase the national GDP by 395 billion pesos.
A network that promotes inclusion
VINCI Concessions works in the general interest by helping to create more inclusive regions, prioritising direct and indirect local employment at the construction phase of its airport, highway and railway infrastructure, including by way of professional integration schemes and by rolling out innovative initiatives at the operation phase. Its commitments promote the development of residents’ employability, support for entrepreneurs and communities’ economic inclusion.
VINCI Airports organises a number of careers fairs at its sites in France, for example. In 2024, the “Forum Destination Emploi” an aviation careers fair organised by Lyon Aéro Emploi, an initiative led by VINCI Airports brought together almost 400 people and 30 company partners offering around 100 job vacancies.
Increasing the number of jobs held by women is also a key aim being worked towards on the ground, as shown by a number of VINCI Highways initiatives. In Slovakia, over 100 girls from the Nitra technical high school visited the operations centre for the R1 expressway Via Pribina the highway linking Nitra and Banska Bystrica in Slovakia for International Women’s Day. And in Colombia, over 300 secondary school students from the area directly affected by the highway connecting Bogotá and Girardot attended an event organised by Vía Sumapaz to promote careers in science.