ETHICAL AND RESPONSIBLE THE DNA OF APSIDE: A COMMITTED COMPANY
Since it was founded in 1976, the Apside Group has been committed to making life better for everyone. Respect, loyalty, ethics and integrity are fundamental to our relations with our employees, customers, partners and colleagues, as well as with society in general. Our ambition: to reinvent IT company as a Social and Digital Enterprise.
Responsible commitment
An approach based on continual progress
The Apside Group has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact on human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption since 2004. The Group continues to affirm its position as a committed company and its ambition to support the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through the deployment of its CSR policy, formalised since 2021.
Apside carries out various actions to bring its employees together around shared values and commitments. Its CSR performance, based on continuous improvement, has been assessed every year since 2012 by EcoVadis.
COMMITTED EMPLOYER
OUR SOCIAL COMMITMENTS
The Group is committed to respecting the fundamental principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Apside prohibits all forms of discrimination, whether related to gender, age, social or national origin, disability, religion or any other characteristic.
CSR APPROACH
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS
Aware of the climate emergency and the role we have to play in helping our employees, customers and suppliers to adopt more sustainable practices, particularly in the digital sector, we are taking a number of steps, starting with measuring our carbon footprint.
As an IT company, one of our main environmental challenges is to reduce our digital impact. To this end, we have launched a number of initiatives such as training our employees in eco-design.
Apside firmly believes that everyone should take responsibility for their actions and regularly runs campaigns to raise awareness of environmental issues.
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS
OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
The Apside Group has been measuring its carbon footprint since 2020. In 2023, we equipped ourselves with a carbon accounting tool in order to have a more complete assessment, including our digital impact and following the GhG Protocol methodology to take into account the emissions of our international subsidiaries.
Our 2023 report serves as the reference year for our reduction target of -42% by 2030. This target is in line with the trajectory defined by the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTI).
The reduction in CO2 emissions envisaged thanks to our action plan is measured in our carbon accounting tool.
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Categories |
Key actions | Deadline |
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Energy/buildings |
Supplying all our branches with renewable energy | 2027 |
| Purchasing/IT |
Integrating low-carbon criteria into purchases of office supplies, goodies and IT equipment Committing to a low-carbon approach with our suppliers |
2026 |
| Sustainable mobility |
Optimise business travel Improve soft mobility |
2028 |
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Waste |
Harmonise waste recycling services in our branches Improve waste tracking management |
2028 |
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Awareness and commitment |
Continuing to train our employees in the challenges and best practices associated with climate change |
2026 |
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS
APSIDE, A PARTNER IN DECARBONISING TRANSPORT
The Apside Group is contributing to the decarbonisation of transport by combining its sectoral expertise in the aerospace and automotive industries with its consultancy and industrial engineering capabilities throughout the system’s life cycle (e.g. aeronautical hybrid electric powertrains, hydrogen powertrains, etc.).
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS
OUR RESPONSIBLE DIGITAL APPROACH
Through its approach, the Apside Group wishes to integrate a CSR and more responsible digital dimension into its projects, offerings and partnerships, in order to innovate for the general well-being and the planet.
We therefore ensure that our ecosystem of technology partners shares our values, particularly with regard to Responsible Digital Technology and its use for the common good.
We invite you to read our news item on the partnership between MAM and Apside
Our approach to responsible digital technology is also based on developing the skills of our employees. That’s why we’ve launched a certification training programme covering web quality assurance, RGPD, eco-design and accessibility of digital services, in collaboration with Opquast. To date, almost fifty of our employees have received training within Apside, and almost sixty within our subsidiary, Keley.
ETHICS
FAIR TRADE PRACTICES
Apside’s values include transparency, ethics and integrity. These values are reflected in all its decisions and every stakeholder, whether internal or external to Apside (employees, managers, partners, suppliers and customers), must commit to them with conviction.
To this end, Apside has drawn up a Code of Conduct setting out the rules of fair business practice aimed at promoting healthy competition and actively combating malpractice, including corruption and conflicts of interest.
Because ethics is everyone’s business, Apside has also set up an ethics alert system, which is essential for guaranteeing the transparency of its operations. Any employee or partner can report, in complete confidentiality, any situation that runs counter to good business ethics, so that it can be remedied quickly and effectively.
Certifications, Labels
& Commitments
Charter for responsible supplier relations and purchasing
Committed
Partners
TESTIMONIAL
The importance of CSR has changed considerably in recent years and is becoming the norm. At Apside, we are aware of the crucial role we have to play in educating our employees and the importance of deploying CSR in all our activities. I'm committed to leading this vast project and promoting CSR, adopting a pragmatic approach based on continuous improvement.
OUR DISABILITY INITIATIVE
Through its Disability Initiative, Apside aims to make inclusion an everyday issue.
Our disability initiativeOUR ADAPTED COMPANY
To change the way people look at disability, in 2019, Apside created the first adapted company to be fully integrated into a digital services company: Apsid’EA.
Apsid’EA