Urenco Annual Report 2022

34 Urenco Annual report and accounts 2022 Our strategy: priority focus areas Strategic report 01 Sustainability Social Impact Beyond environmental sustainability, we continue our efforts to enhance social sustainability. To further help deliver change and impact, we have multi-year partnerships with charitable organisations. This is in addition to the donations we make to charitable organisations local to our operating sites and our volunteering initiatives.We have also enhanced the alignment of our internship, educational and other social programmes with our wider sustainability priorities. Our STEM (science, technology, engineering andmaths) education initiative, the Richie Programme, continues as part of our commitment to nurture the next generation of scientists and engineers, providing workshops and digital resources for schools and students. In 2022, we engaged globally with almost 9,000 pupils in person through our Richie education programme of workshops and events and over 38,000 through online STEM resources.We have undertaken an audit of the impact of the Richie Programme, to ensure future best practice, and tomaximise the number of children we can reach by modernising our channel strategy and usage. Some examples of our social impact partnerships are: Pump Aid We are funding the charity PumpAid to support and train nine local people in Sub-SaharanAfrica to ensure their communities receive access to clean water. They are being trained to construct andmaintain around 800 community wells and pumps in Malawi as part of a social enterprise model. Safe water supplies, child-friendly toilets, hand-washing stations and the teaching of hygiene education will also be delivered as part of our funding. The new trainedmechanics will be able to fix wells and pumps that break, meaning the communities do not lose their source of clean water. IAEA Alpha-emitter therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals have shown promising results in treatment of various cancersworldwide.The IAEA,as a platformproviding peaceful applications of nuclear techniques to theMember States,is coordinating research on the production andquality control ofActinium 225 radiopharmaceuticals to enable radiopharmacy laboratories in clinics worldwide toprepare efficient,state of the-art radiopharmaceuticals for cancer therapy.Our support of thiswork expands our partnershipwith the IAEA,under which we also fund their Environment,Food and Agriculture programme (page 7),which is looking at climate change adaption in crops, and theirMarieSklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme,providing scholarships to young women studying for aMaster’s degree in a nuclear-related subject. Chester Zoo, UK This partnership endorses and supports Chester Zoo’s pioneering conservation research and its 2030 goal of empowering 10million people to live more sustainably. The zoo plans to double the size of its current lab facilities reinforcing its science programme and increasing its training capacity. Urenco is also funding its science lab project to help the zoo reach over 150,000 young people through learning programmes. This aligns with Urenco’s core values in terms of innovation and leadership. American Nuclear Society (ANS) ANS addresses nuclear technology issues via education, standard setting and engagement. Urenco has joined as an inaugural founding member of ANS’‘Trustees of Nuclear’ programme, aimed at increasing STEM education, and also education of the public and policy leadership throughmedia and policymaker engagement on nuclear issues. TheWeekend school, the Netherlands Founded in 2008,the school gives children in Twente (aged 10 to 14) fromunderprivileged backgrounds the opportunity tobroaden their horizons educationally,socio-culturally and socially topositively influence their prospects.Urenco’s fundingwill enable the school to increase its current offering of 12 groups in theAlmelo region covering about 250young people per school year,who attendweekendmeetings covering various fields of expertise. Human rights In 2022, we engaged a human rights specialist to undertake a gap analysis to identify best practice and areas we can boost our policies, procedures and supply chain engagement.We will engage, track and collaboratively monitor our suppliers in their social/human rights performance as part of our sustainability partnership with EcoVadis. In 2023, we will continue to focus on this important subject and further bolster our human rights due diligence processes.We remain committed to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and these are important themes within our Code of Conduct and Supplier Code of Ethics & Conduct documents. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. UN Sustainable Development Goals