UNITED KINGDOM
AN AIRPORT SETTING OFF FOR THE FUTURE
Operated by VINCI Airports, London Gatwick is fully contributing to local employment and integration, opening its doors wide to young people with a view to recruiting its future teams. Since it opened in October 2024, the airport’s new STEM Centre – a facility where visitors can discover and learn about airport careers – has welcomed over 1,000 schoolchildren, students and potential candidates for internships or jobs. Around 30 schoolchildren also took part in a week of work experience, which gave them the opportunity to go behind the scenes at the airport and discover career paths in aviation, and more than 270 students were welcomed to the airport this year as part of its skills programme. Lastly, employees also volunteered as part of the Dare to Dream mentoring programme created by the Love Local Jobs Foundation, mentoring 220 children from local school.
FRANCE
HIGHWAYS PROMOTING INTEGRATION AND LOCAL ROOTS
Twelve years ago, the Les Jardins de la Voie Romaine association was created on an unoccupied area by the A19 highway in the Loiret department by VINCI Autoroutes and the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité. It combines organic market gardening with professional integration on a 5-hectare farm and now plays a major role locally, with four social-oriented collaborative agricultural sites in the Loiret and almost 100 employees. In 2025, the project achieved a new milestone; AVIA Picoty, sub-concession holder for the Loiret service area, awarded Les Voies Romaines – a specialist in professional integration created by the association the operation of the boutique and catering at the service area. An ambitious aim was set: ensuring that 80% of products on offer in the boutique and catering services are local and organic. A new chef is set to create a fresh menu in spring 2025. Local products will gradually be added to the menu and in the boutique, and the service area will also be completely redeveloped. Visitors will get a sense of the local surroundings and enjoy an enhanced customer experience at the next-generation service area – a first on French highways.