Stakeholder engagement

Our stakeholders are employees, customers, suppliers, investors, organizations, and other entities that can affect or be affected by our activities and products. Maintaining an open dialog with our stakeholders is essential to understand their interests and expectations. Each site conducts specific actions depending on its activity, size, location and culture, and all ST sites have regular exchanges with major local stakeholders, such as local authorities, schools and universities. To discover more about their perception and relations with ST, the auditor interviewed three stakeholders (education partner, training consultant, material supplier) during the verification process of this report. I 102-40 I 102-42 I 102-43 I

Employees

Employees

Key expectations

• Health and safety at work
• Respecting human rights
• Ethics

Engagement channels

• Seminars, conferences, forums
• VP communication meetings
• Recognition, awards, contests
• Intranet, internet, news, emails, videos
• Training, workshops
• Employee surveys
• Application week, EHS week

Customers

Customers

Key expectations

• Health and safety at work
• Respecting human rights
• Greenhouse gas emissions

Engagement channels

• Trade shows
• Conventions, technical seminars
• Audits and site visits
• Joint seminars, conferences, blogs, technodays, workshops, webinars
• Meetings

Investors & Analysts

Investors & Analysts

Key expectations

• Health and safety at work
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Talent attraction & retention

Engagement channels

• Capital Markets Day
• Annual reports
• Extra-financial questionnaires

Suppliers

Suppliers

Key expectations

• Health and safety at work
• Ethics
• Respecting human rights

Engagement channels

• Meetings
• Audits
• Supplier training
• Surveys
• EHS week
• Technical roadshows

Local Partners

Local Partners

Key expectations

• Respecting human rights
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Health and safety at work

Engagement channels

• Partnerships
• Conferences, conventions, meetings
• Site visits
• Donations, training, volunteering, local initiatives

National & Local Authorities

National & Local Authorities

Key expectations

• Ethics
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Respecting human rights

Engagement channels

• Partnerships with municipalities
• Meetings, conferences, seminars
• Annual reports
• Site visits

Academic & Laboratories

Academic & Laboratories

Key expectations

• Ethics
• Respecting human rights
• Product and technology innovation

Engagement channels

• Internships, scholarships, PhDs
• Joint R&D projects, joint labs
• Conferences, technical seminars
• Site visits

Industry Associations

Industry Associations

Key expectations

• Ethics
• Respecting human rights
• Renewable energy

Engagement channels

• Memberships in public–private partnerships, international and European associations
• Participation in consortiums, in working groups of electronic industry associations
• Meetings, conferences, seminars

Media

Media

Key expectations

• Fair wages and benefits
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Renewable energy

Engagement channels

• Conferences, conventions, meetings
• Press releases

Key expectations are the top three issues retained by each group of stakeholders in our 2020 materiality exercise. I 102-44 I