Since 2002, Klépierre Ségécé, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, has been attentive to matters of sustainable development (NRE Law). A “Sustainable Development Committee” meets six times a year, in the presence of the Board of Directors. This committee ensures that every Klépierre Ségécé business line is aware of the issues and challenges posed by sustainable development.

In order to communicate these messages within the company more effectively, the Group’s Sustainable Development Department offered to develop an e-learning training module. The module went on-line during Sustainable Development Week at the beginning of April. It is available in all European countries in 8 languages and provides every employee with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the issues at stake, and to better determine which aspects fall within his or her personal responsibility. This module is both informative and entertaining; navigation is easy, and quizzes allow the user to check his/her knowledge. Employees have appreciated this new training and information tool, which offers a highly flexible learning framework.

The project was a joint undertaking with Ségécampus, the training school for all Group Klépierre Ségécé business lines.

The aim of the training is to continue to raise awareness of this issue within the different business lines of the company, in order to encourage all employees to assume responsible behaviour and to become active participants in the change process – such as, for example, ensuring that shopping centres adopt a management system and design that meet environmental and societal standards.

Within a few weeks of its launch, over half the employees in Europe had completed the course, and each new employee joining the company is now invited to follow suit.

On the back of this success, Klépierre Ségécé has planned to launch a new module which will explain the environmental and social issues that directly concern our Group and which will present the “sustainable development” action plan that will be rolled out internationally within the next 5 years.