Alstom in Italy

• Safe working environment: the health and safety of employees is a priority for Alstom, which takes concrete measures such as the Alstom Zero Deviation Plan (AZDP) and an extensive training programme. Suppliers are also trained for a shared safety culture. Alstom's EHS policy is ISO 45001 certified.
• Support in developing employees' skills: Alstom Italy employees benefit from a range of collaborative learning experiences, networking and access to online learning at “Alstom University”.
• Promoting a culture of a flexible workplace: "smartworking" for employees and greater flexibility in terms of workplace, working hours and leave opportunities.
• Physical and mental well-being: sports events, meetings and webinars on healthy lifestyles. In addition, employees have access to a platform of flexible welfare benefits with a wide range of proposals. Mental health programmes and the “Alstom Wellbeing Week” are organised.
• Promotion of equal opportunities: the “Mind the glass” initiative aims to bring talented women into management positions in the company.
• Supporting employees in their parenting experience: parenthood is perceived as an opportunity for personal and professional growth, as it is an irreplaceable exercise of soft skills among the most sought-after in the workplace. The two programmes, “The Lifeed Path” and “Paths: Parents born, parents growing”, support young parents in reflecting on the skills they need both in their role as parents and in their daily work, using multimedia content, open questions, reflections and practical missions.

Our Diversity & Inclusion partnerships and training include:

• D-Value: to promote an inclusive culture for the growth of the business organisation.
• STEM by Women: to promote STEM studies or careers among young people, through testimonials in schools and promotion on social media.
• Enabling disability awareness: to work on awareness-raising and specific disability-related projects.
• Mentoring for women: to support women on critical paths with mentors who are members of the Italian Management Committee.
• Master Lifeed for Parents: to improve management skills developed through parenting and reduce preconceptions related to parenting.
• PARKS Liberi e Uguali: non-profit organisation and first network of companies in Italy to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• Against all discrimination: communication on the Pride Month Campaign to invite people to participate in e-learning modules.
• Generational inclusion: live training session dedicated to all managers.
• Overview of tools for training development processes: live webinar dedicated to all employees.
• Managerial Booster: training session dedicated to managers to improve their leadership skills.
• Social team-building: to support the new engineering organisation.

Alstom Italy's commitment includes supporting the growth objectives of the country's industrial base through the transfer of knowledge and new manufacturing and engineering skills. For this reason, Alstom is keen to put the experience and time of its staff and best teams at the service of education, contributing to the study programmes of many universities and schools throughout Italy, participating in courses but also offering internships, apprenticeships, scholarships, and much more. 

• High and secondary schools: Alstom believes that educational cooperation can start early and therefore collaborates with several secondary education institutions: Scuola delle Idee Marino Golinelli, ITS Sesto San Giovanni, IT Professionale ELIS in Rome, ITIS Fossano, ITS Maddaloni. On the other hand, since 2011 the Bari site has been supporting the Technical Institute “ITS Cuccovillo” with an educational project that includes 166 hours of classroom lessons (software design, testing and life cycle, ERTMS systems), taught by Alstom experts, and an internship for a total of 800 hours.
• Bachelor's and Master's degrees: Alstom participates in various degree courses, offering lectures given by its specialists at the University of Rome La Sapienza - Master's degree in Infrastructure and Railway Systems Engineering, Turin Polytechnic - Master II in Railway Mobility Industry: Train4Me, Milan Polytechnic - "Mobility Engineering" course, BET (Bologna Empowering Talent): an initiative of the Bologna City Council to attract talent and promote employment in local companies.

Alstom plays a key role in sustainable transport. Aware of the importance of reducing the environmental impact of its activities, Alstom strives every day to make more sustainable choices, from energy sources to transport and recycling. Adopting an eco-design approach minimises the environmental footprint of the solutions offered throughout their life cycle. This is why Alstom is aiming for a 35% reduction in indirect emissions from the use of products sold per tonne-km by 2030 compared to 2021/2022. This approach is applied to Alstom's production, with a target of 100% of all new products by 2025.

• Corporate volunteering and charity activities programme - recent initiatives include participation in various sporting events, such as the Naples, Milan, Venice, Florence and Rome Marathons, with dedicated charity programmes; with the NGO Rise Against Hunger for the preparation and packaging of food kits for Ukrainian refugees; fundraising and donations from AIRC employees; donation of surplus food from the main canteens; Plastic-free campaign in all offices, to name a few.
• Through the Alstom Foundation, Alstom works to improve the living conditions of local communities, providing funding for a series of concrete initiatives to support socio-economic development and sustainability. Among the projects carried out in Italy in recent years are:
  • “Women at work: From vulnerability to independence" by INTERSOS, which promotes the autonomy and labour insertion of vulnerable migrant women by offering them training, psychosocial support and vocational guidance.
  • "Supporting the empowerment of Afghan refugee women, promoting their inclusion in the labour market and educational pathways" by the non-profit Pangea Foundation, which aims to open an intercultural desk for Afghan refugee women, offering vocational support, Italian language courses and guidance to improve their employability and ensure an independent future.

The objective of the SIS-LR project is to identify an innovative solution that allows ERTMS systems to be implemented on regional lines with little traffic with low initial investment and operating costs, making them economically viable and competitive with road transport.

The main results achieved by the project are:

• New "Train Location" functions with the use of GNSS technology (GPS, Galileo, ...) and "Train Integrity" control, with the elimination of ground-based Train Detection systems (Track Circuits, Axle Counters, level crossing pedals) and physical train tracking buoys.
• Ground-to-board communication over public LTE/5G networks via APNs, as an alternative to the proprietary GSM-R network.
• Entity controllers with management capability in fault conditions or isolation from the IXL Central Computer, with "cybersecurity" functions for communication on public LTE/5G networks through APN networks, as an alternative to proprietary fibre-optic network.

These results are the first application in the railway environment - with a safety objective (SIL 4) - of similar solutions used in other areas but with less stringent safety objectives, or postulated but so far not implemented.

With the financial support of the European Union - ERDF, PON Enterprise and Competitiveness 2014-2020 for an amount exceeding EUR 500,000.00.

With a strong commitment to the decarbonisation of Italian rail transport, Alstom designs and builds advanced technologies to make increasingly high-performance and sustainable train fleets available to operators.

With this in mind, Alstom has launched the Hydrogen Green Mobility for Railway project in Italy, focused on the development, construction and marketing of next-generation hydrogen and hybrid (hydrogen + electric) trains.

For the realisation of the project, Alstom Ferroviaria SpA has been awarded a grant, issued by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, under the IPCEI Hydrogen 1 Hy2tech Fund amounting to € 98,653,026.00 (Project ID: IPCEI-I1_0000003 CUP: B19J23000490004).

The Alstom project includes three main steps:

1. Regional Train Step 1, focused on the design and development of a new generation of hydrogen-powered trains characterised by the innovative Power Car concept. This phase foresees the creation of a set of prototype trains validating the Research, Development and Innovation phase and a set of trains validating the First Industrial Application phase realised with the aim of allowing validation by an external operator (Ferrovie Nord Milano) through testing on a real railway line (Brescia-Iseo-Edolo).
2. Regional Train Step 2, focused on the design and development of a new generation of hydrogen-powered trains integrating improved components in terms of durability and performance, such as, in particular, traction batteries and fuel cells, integrating technological developments achieved by the other streams of the IPCEI Hy2Tech programme (Technical Field 2).
3. Bi-Modal Regional Train, focused on the design and development of a new generation of bi-modal trains (hydrogen + electric), integrating the new-generation components developed in the previous phase with catenary, allowing them to operate on electrified lines.