our action in 2022: activities and initiatives

Group Angola & Southern Africa

Scholarshio Programme In Angola Emergency Fund Support For Ukrainian Refugees

In April of 2022, Nors joined the Portugal Foundation with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) to support the Emergency Fund for refugees from Ukraine, through a monetary donation. Operating in more than 132 countries, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has developed actions in the field and launched a fundraising campaign to help the Ukrainian people affected by the conflict.

As part of the social action plan developed by the Angola & Southern Africa Local Corporate Centre, scholarships were awarded to 4 young people from needy families, aged between 17 and 21. These young people, who belong to the Nossa Terra Community and the Dom Bosco Shelter Centre, in Luanda, had the opportunity, with the support of the Nors teams in Angola, to develop Secondary Technical Courses in the areas of Mechanics and Mechatronics.

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mãos à obra: the project that boosts the lives of hundreds of children in luanda donation of ventilators to centro hospitalar universitário de são joão

Nors' companies in Angola organised a team building activity to provide support to the local community, through the "Mãos à Obra" project. Under the motto "Moving forward is in our hands", this initiative, carried out by the CEOs and employees together with the Salesian Fathers Don Bosco, resulted in the transformation of pottery tables into school tables, to be donated to the Nossa Terra Community school. Thirty-four tables were built which will be used by hundreds of children in Angola.

Two ventilators were donated to the Intensive Care Unit of Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, in Porto. The formal delivery of this equipment was attended by the Group CEO, Tomás Jervell, and the COO of Nors, Jorge Guimarães, and sought to support the health services of this unit, which were being impacted by the pandemic crisis resulting from Covid-19.

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launch of the integrity line joining the consortium route 25

Auto Sueco Portugal joined Route 25, a project that aims to contribute to raise the position of the Portuguese automotive industry to the top of the mobility value chain, positioning Portugal as a reference country in safe autonomous driving, regarding the development of sustainable transport technologies aligned with the European Strategy CCAM - Cooperative, connected and automated mobility.

This project is expected to generate a turnover of more than 100 million euros, as well as the development and launch of more than 50 new products, processes and services that will contribute to reduce CO2 emissions by 85% and to decrease the number of accidents by 30%.

In the last quarter of 2022, Nors' integrity line was launched in Portugal. It is a digital platform that allows employees and stakeholders to report grounded suspicions of violations of the law occurring within our organisation, in a secure, confidential and, if they wish, anonymous manner. This channel is intended for the reporting of behaviours that may constitute serious violations of the law, such as fraud, harassment, corruption, money laundering, among others, duly substantiated, contributing to strengthen the culture of transparency and integrity that Nors fosters.

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local community support

Aware of their social commitment, the Nors companies in Portugal have organised numerous social support initiatives with the aim of intervening directly in the local community, acting on the assumptions of proximity and the direct involvement of their employees. The multi-brand workshop chains TOPCAR, TOP TRUCK and Carwin (Aftermarket Portugal) converted the amount normally used for end-of-year gifts for partners and customers of the chains into food and rations to be donated to children and animal shelters. The associations supported were: Crescer Ser, Associação Bispo Dom Antonio Barroso, Ajuda de Berço, Associação a Casa do Caminho, União Zoófila, Associação ResGato, CROAMCentro de Recolha de Animais de Matosinhos and Associação MIDAS.

In turn, Amplitude Seguros supported the Porto Solidário association, which acts under the motto "Nobody can be left behind", by offering the insurance of the association's distribution vehicle.

There was also a gathering of goods by the employees of Sotkon (such as clothes and toys, as well as a monetary donation), to support the association CAT - Centro de Acolhimento Temporário da Praia do Ribatejo.

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photovoltale panel installation maia's after-sales unit

In October 2022, the installation of 250 photovoltaic panels at the Auto Sueco Portugal After-Sales Unit in Maia was concluded, with an installed power of 114kWp and an estimated production of 151MHh. The installation concerns a unit of electric energy production for self-consumption in the infrastructures in question, and the surplus produced can be injected into the Public Electric Service Network, in order to avoid the waste of resources.

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health awareness and prevention actions local community support

The employees of the Nors companies in São Paulo carried out various initiatives to support the local community, with the objective of providing support to institutionalised children. In one of the initiatives, 482 children, aged between 6 and 17, from the Casa da Criança and Lar Fabiano de Cristo institutions, which offer basic and special protection services to families and people in situations of vulnerability and social risk, were supported. Support was also given to the Shelter Home for Boys and Girls, with the donation of hundreds of toys, hygiene and cleaning products for the various children in this institution. During the year, AgroNew employees also collected donations to support the Catanduva Cancer Hospital, which treats patients from 19 municipalities in the region.

The Corporate Centre in Brazil developed awarenessraising actions around health-related themes, instigating prevention and raising awareness among its employees. These campaigns included themes such as "pink October", about breast cancer, and "blue November", related to prostate cancer, as well as the incentive to preventive vaccination against Influenza.