By creating value and delivering direct, visible benefits for local populations beyond mining activities, the Eramet Beyond program contributes to strengthening our societal acceptance in host countries.
As a key pillar of the Act for Positive Mining roadmap, Eramet Beyond aims by 2026 to support 6,000 jobs outside its value chain and 500 young people in their educational journey.
In 2025, driven by tangible results in supporting employment and education, Eramet Beyond helped foster a positive perception of our industrial and mining activities and generated new opportunities across these territories.
Alongside local entrepreneurs to support economic diversification
In 2025, Eramet Beyond strengthened its support for local entrepreneurship through various programmes, helping to generate new sources of income for local populations outside mining activities while diversifying the economy of the areas concerned.
Support for agricultural and fishing activities
Eramet Beyond provides assistance to farmers and fishers in Argentina, Senegal and Cameroon, with 450 people supported in 2025. The initiatives promote more sustainable practices, improved yields and incomes, and greater community resilience in the face of economic and climate-related challenges.
- In Senegal, the Build project aims to support the economic development of the Louga region, focusing on three key sectors: market gardening, livestock farming and fishing. More than 300 people have already been trained in these fields since 2024.
- Since 2025, Eramet Beyond has been rolling out a new initiative in Argentina to support sustainable family farming and strengthen community autonomy, in partnership with the Gran Chaco Foundation.
Creating the conditions for the development of local entrepreneurship
More than 860 people — students or already established entrepreneurs — have benefited from the Triple Impact Programm developed by Eramet Beyond in the Salta region of Argentina since 2023. In 2025, 184 project leaders in sectors such as clothing, food, crafts, and beauty received support.
Thanks to the seed fund in Gabon, set up in partnership with the Gabonese government, 165 entrepreneurs across 16 localities benefited from training or access to financing at a reduced interest rate through five microfinance agencies, depending on their needs. More than 170 jobs outside mining activities have already been created.
Women Entrepreneurs in the Spotlight
Deployed since 2023 in Gabon, Senegal and Argentina, the Femmes d’Avenir programme expanded to Indonesia in 2025.
Its objective: to offer a women-focused entrepreneurship programme tailored to local needs and to help participants develop and strengthen their business projects through training — such as managing their accounting, improving business operations, promoting their products and services, and boosting sales.
More than 1,300 women entrepreneurs were supported in 2025 across all our host countries through training initiatives, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to over 2,000 since the programme’s launch.
Participants in the Femmes d’Avenir projects in Senegal
Education: an investment in the future of local communities
Education is the second key pillar of the Eramet Beyond programme.
“Read for the Future,” one of the first Eramet Beyond education initiatives, was implemented in Gabon with the NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières and the Ministry of National Education. The programme prioritised rural and remote communes located along the Transgabonais railway. Nearly 4,500 young people benefited from additional educational resources such as micro‑libraries, books and micro‑SD cards. Teachers were also trained to facilitate the use of these new learning spaces.
Gabonese high school students receive educational materials as part of the “Read for the Future” project in partnership with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières
In mining regions, schooling is often interrupted for economic reasons. This is why Eramet Beyond has also chosen to support the future of children by establishing a scholarship programme in most of the Group’s host locations. These scholarships directly address this need by covering all or part of the costs involved (tuition fees, housing, books and daily expenses). To promote equal opportunities, the scholarships target the most vulnerable groups and help reduce inequalities.
In 2025, 63 new young beneficiaries were supported in Gabon, Argentina, Senegal, Indonesia and New Caledonia through scholarship schemes, mentoring activities and access to educational resources. Since the programme’s launch in 2024, a total of 323 young people have benefited from this support, and 50% of the scholarships awarded have gone to girls and children from local communities.
A collective effort
The success of Eramet Beyond relies on strong partnerships with committed NGOs and organisations such as the YCAB Foundation, the Gran Chaco Foundation and Women in Africa Philanthropy, as well as on solid relationships with local authorities. These partners ensure that projects are rooted in local realities, operationally relevant and impactful over the long term.
When conditions allow, Eramet employees are also involved through mentoring initiatives, knowledge-sharing or participation in local events, as in Indonesia or Argentina. These contributions bring a concrete and human dimension to the Group’s commitment.
