Local Communities

Alstom seeks to make a positive impact on disadvantaged local communities, improving their living conditions and their socio-economic standing through pragmatic dialogue, by encouraging employee awareness and employee involvement in various volunteering and charitable activities, and by allowing the use of company property or by giving employees the time to participate.



Alstom’s employees get involved in fund-raising events such as charity runs, bike race, walks or sale of products. But overall, Alstom addresses social needs through its support to charities and through community project support.

Alstom has apprentice and internship programmes in place in several countries which are often focused on young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Mentorship is also a common practice. Alstom has hosted female students at our Riyadh Metro facility to introduce Alstom and expose students to green mobility.

These actions frequently involve partnerships with local institutions, the training of internal mentors, and the development of a training plan. The aim is for apprentices to learn a trade as leverage for future employment – whether in Alstom or elsewhere. Training can be full or part time and of different durations. 

In Spain, Alstom volunteers frequently visit schools and classrooms for different interventions: to teach a railway expertise or to present their professional path and support youth career orientation. Academic support is also part of the initiatives. In South Africa, Gibela partnered with Solve 4X to provide extra maths lessons for over 2,000 primary school learners (Grade 4-7) and strengthen their STEM foundations.

By providing mobility solutions worldwide, the Group anchors its projects in local economies. Alstom is able to meet local content requirements especially from public procurement policies, to comply with demanding regulations, to respond to localisation conditions from institutions/States/Cities financing the projects, as well as to satisfy growing expectations from its customers and stakeholders on local footprint.

Its contribution to economic and social development includes a wide range of initiatives, such as: employment, trainings, investments at the local level, or collaboration with small, medium and large local companies, start-ups, innovation clusters, associations, universities, inclusive actions, as well as the development of relations with regional economic stakeholders. 

Here are a few examples of how we encourage the development of local enterprises:

In Australia, Alstom supported the Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway (QPSR) renovation of 3 vintage locomotives. The goal is to repurpose heritage assets (Circular economy) for tourism, education and community benefits. Activities involved repairing sections of the Swanbank track, rewiring Sunlander carriages, painting exteriors and maintaining historic engines. The locomotives are expected to attract 10,000 visitors per annum, with an average $350 spend per family injected into the local economy.

In Sweden, Alstom continues to foster innovation through Ignite matchmaking network to help start-ups land projects, deals or clients.