A positive and lasting social impact
A firm believer that economic diversification is a source of stability and local economic development, Eramet has launched a program dedicated to supporting employment opportunities that extend beyond our core activities. The “Eramet Beyond for Contributive Impacts” programme is designed to supplement the direct and indirect local employment already created by our activities.
As an integral part of the Act For Positive Mining roadmap, Eramet Beyond for Contributive Impacts aims to create a new dynamic that will contribute to economic, social and human development and generate more jobs.
Eramet Beyond is a powerful tool that helps local communities and regions to boost their economic development, reduce inequalities and build environmental resilience.
Based on measurable impact methods and rigorous reporting, Eramet Beyond works with local stakeholders and expert partners to create projects with long-term impact.
This programme is designed to supplement the Group’s existing community investment initiatives in the countries where it operates, particularly in relation to infrastructure.
Objective 1
Acting as a catalyst to boost economic development beyond mining, through support for training and access to funding and markets.
Objective 2
Supporting educational and study grants, promoting female empowerment and fighting violence against women.
Objective 3
Supporting agroforestry and sustainable agriculture programmes (choice of crops, water and input use, etc.) to generate revenue.
Marie-Axelle Gautier
Director of Social Impact and Human Rights
Eramet Beyond is a powerful tool that enables local communities and regions boost economic diversification and local development, while helping to reduce inequalities and build environmental resilience.
Key figures concerning the programme’s objectives between now and 2026:
6,000
jobs created and sustained over the long term
(in addition to Group activities)
500
young people helped and supported to obtain training leading to a secondary qualification or higher, 50% of whom will be from local communities and 50% of whom will be girls
Our projects
Gabon
Femmes d’Avenir
(Women for Future)
Enabling Gabonese women entrepreneurs to benefit from support in running their businesses, including training, mentoring and access to funding.
Femmes d’Avenir” launched by Eramet and Women In Africa, is a programme intended to support economic and social development and encourage female entrepreneurship on the African continent. In 2022, its initial year of operation, in Gabon, the programme helped more tha 360 women entrepreneurs to develop their skills and networks.
→ Find out more about Women in Africa
→ Read the Femmes d’Avenir press release
→ Read the press release concerning the launch of Femmes d’Avenir in Senegal
Gabon
Lire pour l’Avenir
(Reading for Future)
Providing offline access to enhanced educational content for secondary school pupils in 5 isolated communities located along the Transgabonese railway line to strengthen educational continuity.
Eramet has teamed up in 2024 with the NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders) and Gabon’s Ministry of Education to provide 6,500 secondary school pupils with access to digital libraries and educational content in communities along the railway line operated by Setrag. The project has also included the distribution of memory cards for future secondary school graduates, which can be inserted into smartphones to access content and help with revision, even in the absence of an internet connection. The project was concluded in June 2025.
→ Find out more about Bibliothèques sans Frontières
→ Find out more about Lire pour l’Avenir
Cameroon
Terre d’Ako
(Land of Ako)
Providing 80 farms from villages located near Akonolinga with access to a central purchasing centre and training in order to develop the growing of plantains.
Through the Terre d’Ako project, launched in February 2024, Eramet and its partner ClassM have provided support to plantain growers from villages near Akonolinga, an area in Cameroon where Eramet conducted mining exploration operations for several years. The aim of the project, which has been co-constructed with the local communities, was to develop a central purchasing centre for bananas, while providing technical assistance to growers with a view to improving yields, as well as to organizing the collection, storage and distribution of their produce. 5 direct jobs were created in the purchasing center, and 160 farmers were able to attend training sessions in 9 different villages. Eramet’s support for the project ended in late 2025, with the management and operation of the purchasing center now being autonomously handled by local stakeholders.
→ Find out more about ClassM
Argentina
Triple Impact
Encouraging the creation, professionalization and growth of micro-businesses that have a threefold impact (environmental, social and financial) by supporting students and entrepreneurs in the province of Salta.
In cooperation with the Por Nuestros Niños foundation, Eramine supports micro-enterprise development programmes in the Salta region of Argentina, where Eramine is headquartered, as well as and in communities located along the roads leading to our Centenario site. Since 2023, 866 people, including young individuals and entrepreneurs, have benefited from the Triple Impact project aimed at generating a virtuous circle of interconnected businesses while strengthening the region’s economy.
→ Find out more about the Por Nuestros Niños Foundation (in Spanish only)
Gabon
Seed Fund
Supporting the development of small and micro-enterprises in the 5 provinces crossed by the Transgabonais railroad through the provision of access to microfinance in partnership with 5 microfinance providers: EDG, SFE, Finam, Cofina, SODEC.
Gabon
Entrepreneurship training
Supporting the development of small and micro- businesses in Ndjolé, Booué, Lastourville and Owendo by enhancing the resources of associations and providing access to microfinance.
In collaboration with a partner specialized in entrepreneurship training and revenue-generating activities, Setrag offers training courses for associations and cooperatives being set up in Ndjolé, Booué, Lastourville and Franceville. These courses cover the formalities involved in setting up or registering an association, the roles of board members, accounting, as well as financial and customer management. The programme is conducted on a yearly basis and is set to run over a three-year period. Since 2023, more than 300 people have been trained, representing 132 supported jobs.
Senegal
Femmes d’Avenir
(Women for Future)
Providing 615 female entrepreneurs with “soft skills” training and, in the case of more experienced entrepreneurs, with support in managing their businesses.
Femmes d’Avenir, launched by Eramet and Women In Africa, is a programme intended to support economic and social development and encourage female entrepreneurship on the African continent. In Senegal, the programme will give 615 women the opportunity to benefit from two mentoring programmes over a period of 3 years:
- Jeunes pousses (start-ups): 200 women each received 208 hours of comprehensive soft skills training
- Experienced female entrepreneurs, bespoke support over a period of one year for 5 high-potential female entrepreneurs.
Since 2023, more than 360 women have already been supported in Dakar, Thiès, Kébémer, Linguere, and Louga to promote their professional success.
→ Find out more about Women in Africa
→ Read the Femmes d’Avenir press release
→ Read the press release on the launch of Femmes d’Avenir in Senegal
Argentina
Femmes d’Avenir
(Women for Future)
Providing 1200 women entrepreneurs in the province of Salta with training that will enable them to enhance their skills and boost their business revenues.
Following its launch in Gabon in 2022 and in Senegal in 2023, the Femmes d’Avenir programme is expanding to Argentina in 2024. Pro Mujer, a leading organization in the field of women’s entrepreneurship in Latin America, is partnering with Eramet to support women with the formalities of starting up their own business. Since its launch, 800 women have already been supported in 10 departments of the province of Salta (Capital, General Güemes, General San Martin, Oran, Chicoana, Cerrillos, La Viña).
→ Find out more about Pro Mujer
→ Read the Femmes d’Avenir press release
Indonesia
Beyond scholarships
Support 41 Indonesian students in their higher education by awarding two-year scholarships covering tuition, living expenses and books. Mentoring is also offered to each scholarship recipient, to provide them with the best possible conditions to succeed in their studies.
The scholarship program, launched in November 2024 in partnership with the Kitong Bisa Foundation, enables 41 Indonesian students from the provinces of North Molucca, Papua and Sulawesi to obtain financial support for their higher education. The scholarship enables them to pursue their bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral studies at Indonesian universities, covering their basic needs. They also receive mentoring to help them learn English, IT, financial management, communication and soft skills such as leadership. Among the 41 students, 24 are women. 23 are pursuing a curriculum in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and 18 are pursuing a curriculum in Social Sciences.
Indonesia
Femmes d’Avenir
(Women for Future)
Enable 600 women entrepreneurs in Jakarta and Ternate to benefit from training in financial literacy and digital marketing to accelerate the development of their entrepreneurial activities.
The program, launched in June 2025, aims to train 600 women over two years, with 400 in Jakarta in the first year and 200 in Ternate in the second year, through a combination of online training and in-person sessions on financial education and digital marketing. Among them, 75 high-potential women will receive a $500 scholarship to accelerate the development of their entrepreneurial activities. From its first year of deployment, 468 women entrepreneurs in Jakarta have already benefited from capacity building.
Argentina
Farmers for Future
Over a period of three years, strengthen the technical, organizational, and commercial capacities of 800 indigenous agroforestry producers in the Salta region.
The project, launched in 2025 with the Gran Chaco Foundation, aims to optimize the production systems of 80 agroforestry and small livestock farms in the northern part of the Salta province through water-related solutions to increase their efficiency and resilience to climate change. Additionally, 800 producers will be trained for six months on production management, water management, and access to local markets.
At this stage, 312 people have already benefited from technical sessions and training workshops. The project has also enabled the establishment of 20 agroforestry production units and the support of 5 goat farming units, notably through the installation of infrastructure, animal management training, and ongoing technical assistance. Finally, 10 hydraulic systems have been installed to improve access to water.
Gabon
Yam’na Scholarships
Facilitate access to higher education for high-potential high school students in Gabon.
29 scholarships were awarded in October 2024 to young graduates from across the country for the 2024-2025 academic year.
18 new scholarships were awarded in October 2025 to young graduates for the academic year 2025-2026.
Eramet Beyond : our latest news
1 September 2025
