Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
Our mission at CONDURIL is to create lasting wealth for our shareholders and to maintain the best working conditions for our employees. Employee satisfaction is the first vector of our social responsibility.
Our belief is that value and wealth can only be created through openness, trust, and accountability based on a culture of integrity that means Honesty, Transparency, Justice and strict adherence to rules and regulations; these are our values and the foundation of all our principles.
CONDURIL’s Corporate Social Responsibility Policy outlines the principles that guide the actions to ensure responsible behaviour towards its stakeholders.
Conduril Pension Fund
In 1989, the Conduril Pension Fund was created in Portugal, fully funded by the company, for the employees who retire and comply with the By-laws, increasing the retirement pension of each employee up to 22,5% of the last salary earned. Currently, 127 former employees benefit from this fund.
CONDURIL SCHOLARSHIPS
Engineer Amorim Martins
To support the education costs of engineering students at FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
‘Nobody who wants to learn beyond their knowledge is discouraged. On the contrary: any individual expression of the desire to enhance themselves with new knowledge is immediately supported. What's more, within each person's field of activity, they are required to know, study and learn everything they work with and to do it well.’
Engineer Amorim Martins has dedicated more than 50 years of his life and work to CONDURIL and engineering. Since 1970, his visionary leadership, innovative thinking and creative spirit, combined with his ability to choose opportunities and perceive the future, have enabled CONDURIL to succeed together with its employees, leaving their mark on the way of leading based on social responsibility.
Aware of the decisive role of universities in preparing human resources of excellence, competent in the various areas that make up the economic and social fabric, capable of facing the growing challenges of competitiveness on a global scale, as well as the difficulty in accommodating in the family budget the costs of education for those attending Higher Education, particularly those who are displaced, CONDURIL-Engenharia, S.A. decided to award scholarships to students at FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
The creation of the ‘CONDURIL - Engenheiro Amorim Martins Scholarships’ is the result of a protocol between CONDURIL - Engenharia S.A., FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and SASUP - Social Services of the University of Porto and is designed to support the educational expenses of engineering students at FEUP.
The ‘CONDURIL - Engenheiro Amorim Martins Scholarships’ programme is aimed at students from municipalities outside the Oporto Metropolitan Area.
The ‘CONDURIL - Engenheiro Amorim Martins Scholarships’ programme is aimed at students from municipalities outside the Porto Metropolitan Area, with the aim of providing financial support for attending and completing one or two cycles of studies at FEUP (bachelor's and master's degrees).
The scholarships are aimed at civil engineering students and, alternately, one electrical and computer engineering student and one computer science and computing engineering student.
CONDURIL Academy
CONDURIL Academy is a vocational training centre in the area of Civil Engineering and Public Works, duly accredited by the bodies that are responsible for vocational training in the countries it operates in. This academy is present in Angola since 2009, and in Mozambique since 2016. Its activity is fully funded by Conduril - Engenharia, S.A.
Although it does not receive any government subsidies by choice, the CONDURIL Academy works in strict and permanent collaboration with the Ministries of Education in Angola and Mozambique, as a facilitator in the process of literacy and school acceleration for its employees. This academy will continue its existence as long as CONDURIL may sustain its activity. It has survived and existed within a network of cooperative, interdependent and transversal work between all the departments that form CONDURIL.
The valuation of its human capital was always assumed as a priority for CONDURIL. In a specific context, such as Angola and Mozambique, with high illiteracy rates and low academic degree rates, the work basis of the CONDURIL Academy is to promote free access to an internal system of education and vocational training opportunities, generating the development of the human potential of our workers and their families.
CONDURIL believes that education/training is a structuring element of a country’s social and
economic evolution, and, in fact, the CONDURIL Academy has a decisive role in its social responsibility
policy and contributions it provides to the societies where it is integrated.
Illiteracy in the CONDURIL universe in Angola
Scholarships
In 2019, the CONDURIL Scholarship Programme for Higher Education was started, which is intended for the children of Angolan and Mozambican employees, with more than 5 years of seniority, recognised professional performance and with a precarious economic situation. 10 scholarships were awarded for the 2019 academic year and in the next years, CONDURIL estimates the award of 12 scholarships for each new academic year.