Contribution to the society

ENEA Operator was distinguished in the Energy and Industry category of the Innowatory “Wprost” competition for the project entitled “Innovative energy storage system services to improve quality and capacity”, which will enable a more efficient use of renewable energy sources.

Lubelski Węgiel “Bogdanka” received the Innovation prize in the Mining Success of the Year competition organized by the Polish Mining Chamber of Industry and Commerce, which recognized the project entitled “Technical and organizational optimization of operation of longwall with a 7100 m strike.”

We are cooperating with local vocational and technical schools, including schools preparing for work in power industry, in our endorsed schools program, as well as ensure practical education to students in cooperation with their universities (dual studies). We conduct paid traineeships and unpaid or paid apprenticeships for students under the “Get Installed at ENEA” program.

Within the framework of cooperation with endorsed schools, the company funds scholarships for the most talented students, co-finances equipment for classrooms and organizes trips and contests. The students are obliged to have mandatory apprenticeships in Group companies.

Industry schools with which the ENEA Group cooperates:

• Power Engineering Technical School in Poznań
• Technical School Complex – Vocational and Adult Education Center in Leszno
• Electrical and Power Engineering Technical School in Bydgoszcz
• Electrical School Complex in Gorzów Wielkopolski
• Electrician Vocational and Adult Education Center in Nowa Sól
• Vocational Education Center in Chodzież
• Secondary and Vocational School Complex in Sulęcin
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering School Complex in Szczecin
• Vocational and Adult Education Center in Złotów
• School Complex in Połaniec
• School Complex No. 4 in Szczecin
• Senior Secondary School Complex No. 2 in Gniezno
• Electrical Engineering School Complex No. 2 in Poznań
• School Complex No. 1 in Kozienice
• Mining School Complex in Łęczna
• School Complex in Ostrów Lubelski
• Power Engineering and Transportation School Complex in Chełm
• School Complex in Pionki

In 2021, in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic, cooperation with the schools was limited. The company did not sign any patronage agreements, but it continued its activities to support the establishments in professional development and promotion of the electrical engineering profession. We also organized the “Power to Start” contest, in which 10 for students of the endorsed schools received scholarships.

Tertiary education institutions collaborating with the ENEA Group in the field of vocational training:

• University of Lodz,
• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin,
• University of Warsaw,
• Warsaw University of Life Sciences,
• Wrocław University of Science and Technology,
• University of Technology and Humanities in Radom,
• War Studies University,
• Kielce University of Technology,
• Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz,
• AGH University of Science and Technology,
• Military University of Technology,
• Warsaw University of Technology,
• Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw,
• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
• West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin,
• Białystok University of Technology.

Due to the epidemic, apprenticeships and traineeships for students were suspended in some Group companies.

This campaign encouraged selected local communities in the area of the Group’s activity to take care of physical fitness. Its participants recorded physical activity such as walking, running, sightseeing tours, Nordic walking, cycling, scooter riding. Five local governments, which recorded the largest numbers of kilometers, received two professional table tennis tables, which will be available to the public, and more than one hundred most active residents received individual prizes related to sports, including electric scooters and table tennis sets. Overall, more than 1600 people took part in the challenge, covering in total 429,173 kilometers.

The ENEA Foundation has become the partner of the 13th edition of the campaign entitled “Faces of depression. I don’t judge. I accept”. As part of the campaign, through financial support of the Foundation, free remote psychological assistance was provided to those who needed it in the area of operation of the ENEA Group, for nearly 100 days. The project also included prophylactic activities for employees, including a webinar on the treatment of depression, a meeting with a psychologist and stress management workshops attended by more than 230 Group employees.

ENEA S.A. teamed up with the Stanisław Lem Poland of the Future Institute to carry out educational activities on how to use the Internet safely and how to prevent cyberbullying, i.e. how to handle problems that have become increasingly common in the lives of teenagers and that intensified during the remote learning period.  During the #OgarnijHejt campaign, students, parents and teachers in 30 schools, which qualified for the program, participated in free workshops, learning how to use the Internet and the social media safely and responsibly.

A part of this campaign, a social initiative was carried out, which was aimed at minimizing adverse effects of the coronavirus epidemic on women, since according to research, it is them who suffer the consequences of the pandemic more acutely than men and in multiple dimensions. Due to the support of the ENEA Foundation and the organized collection, from 8 to 31 March 2021, women were able to take advantage of psychological care free of charge. The aid was used by 51 women and psychologists provided telephone support for 68 hours. The initiative was accompanied by a charity concert organized in cooperation with the Development Ladder Foundation.

A cytomammobus of the Holy Cross Cancer Center parked in front of the Połaniec Power Plant to offer its female employees cytology and mammography and all employees initial qualification for preventive head, neck and lung cancer screening. The examinations in the cytomammobus were taken by around 100 women.

Between January and August 2021, ENEA Centrum supported the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate by seconding a group of consultants from the Contact Center for the operation of the hotline dedicated to the COVID-19 epidemic and vaccination. The consultants were on duty from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., ready to manage the increased hotline traffic. The effects of the support included, among others, effective registration of more than 22 thousand people for vaccination.

ENEA S.A. cooperated with the Educational Project Society Foundationto execute a historical and educational project about the Greater Poland Uprising titled “From Greater Poland to Independent Poland. The youth speaks about 27 December 1918”. As part of the project, educational materials (for teachers and students respectively) and teaching aids necessary to conduct lessons on the uprising as well as a website dedicated to the campaign were developed.

Additionally, two historical and teaching conferences, a knowledge contest with awards and a large-format exhibition for schools were organized. ENEA Wytwarzanie, in turn, in cooperation with the Kozienice Association of Historical Reconstructions, conducted a local history knowledge contest among its employees.

For the second time, ENEA S.A. joined the partners of the nationwide contest for students called “Exempt from theory”. In 2021, the projects supported by the company as part of the Energy in Education cycle, attracted 315 participants, who implemented 33 projects, supporting 752 thousand beneficiaries. The projects included, among others, initiatives in the area of health prevention, educational activities relating to mental disorders and the fight against obesity and excess weight, or a project supporting the unemployed on the job market. The company’s representatives sat on the Jury and took part in meetings with students and last-year high-school students telling them about their work for the ENEA Group.

ENEA S.A. established cooperation with the United Nations Association – Poland (UNAP), an association which supports and popularizes the knowledge of the United Nations. As part of the partnership, the company will engage in actions for education in the area of global Sustainable Development Goals. One of them is the Sustainable Development Ambassador program, which was joined by the company as a strategic partner. As part of the project, high-school students prepare projects related to education and promotion of the Goals.

Volunteers taught preschoolers how to handle electricity safely, how to alert rescue service if necessary, etc. They also ran a preventive lesson in road safety.

ENEA Wytwarzanie and Stefan Czarniecki High School No. 1 in Kozienice executed a project for homeless pets, addressed to educational establishments, public agencies and work establishments from Kozienice county. It consisted in a pet food collection and educational actions promoting pet adoption and their proper treatment.