13 Life Is On | Schneider Electric www.se.com 2021 Social Impact Report The Schneider Electric Foundation works almost exclusively with local structures. It is a guarantee of reliability and efficiency because only organizations that work most closely with the communities to be supported know their specific needs and constraints and can provide the appropriate solutions. The creation of the zone/cluster committees, since 2019, made up of Schneider Electric zone directors is a step in that direction. Over and above financial, material, or logistics support for projects, the actions of the Schneider Electric Foundation aim to create bonds among partners, encourage structures to work together, and build relevant and innovative solutions with all stakeholders to raise the challenges of sustainability. 3.8 Group employees, spearheading the Schneider Electric Foundation’s actions The Schneider Electric Foundation strongly focuses on the involvement of Group employees in all the actions it implements. Whether they are Foundation delegates or employee volunteers, they are the link between the Company, the Foundation, and the supported organizations. In 2012, the Schneider Electric VolunteerIn NGO was created to organize volunteer missions benefiting the Foundation’s partners. Wherever the Company is based, Schneider Electric VolunteerIn empowers people to be actors and ambassadors of societal commitments in the fields of education, access to energy, and the fight against energy poverty. In particular: • Employees volunteer their time and make their skills available; • Partners look for skills to support their activities, specify their needs, and support volunteers in carrying out their mission; • The Schneider VolunteerIn association as well as the Foundation delegates co-ordinate, connect, and organize the process and cover costs related to carrying out missions, in particular abroad; • The Schneider Electric entities host the volunteers when the mission takes place outside their country of habitual residence. 3.8.1 Governance The Schneider Electric VolunteerIn Executive Board is composed of Schneider Electric leaders: • Charise Le (Chairman, Chief Human Resources Officer); • Michel Crochon (Vice-President), • François Milioni (Secretary, in charge of the Training & Entrepreneurship program); • Christophe Poline (Treasurer, in charge of the SEEA solidarity investment fund); • Emir Boumediene (Member, volunteer representative); • Gilles Vermot Desroches (Member, Senior Vice-President Corporate Citizenship). One to two Executive Board meetings are organized each year. 3.8.2 100 delegates in 80 countries to catalyze the Schneider Electric Foundation’s actions The Schneider Electric Foundation draws on a network of around 100 volunteer employees, also known as delegates, covering 80 countries. Their role is to select local partners in the fields of vocational training in the energy sector, entrepreneurship, and raising sustainability awareness. They inform the employees of their entity, as well as the Foundation. They follow the progress of the projects after they have been launched. Each proposed project is subject to a review process based on administrative and financial data by the Schneider Electric Foundation and by Fondation de France before funds are released. The delegates manage a digital platform, VolunteerIn, that groups together all the missions proposed by the Foundation locally and internationally. Available in eight languages, the platform can be accessed from anywhere in the world and enables employees to apply for volunteer assignments for the benefit of the Foundation’s partners and their beneficiaries. Finally, the delegates co-ordinate the organization of the Schneider Electric Foundation’s campaigns for international mobilization such as the Tomorrow Rising fund. This showcases local initiatives to a global audience. They also engage in campaigns organized following natural disasters. An assignment campaign will be conducted in 2022 to renew the Foundation delegates’ mandates. Each year, around 35,000 employees in 50 countries take part in these campaigns. 3.8.3 Standardize measurement to improve the impact and coherence of actions in favor of sustainability The Schneider Electric Foundation is a groundbreaker in the measurement of the social impact of the actions that it supports. The idea is to enable its partners to better fulfill their missions by identifying areas for improvement. The Schneider Electric Foundation is assisted in particular by KiMSO, a social impact assessment consulting firm. A first study was conducted in 2018, as part of the fight against energy poverty, to draw up an innovative methodology to assess the social impact of missions. This methodology is placed at the disposal of project sponsors. CLER, the Energy Transition Network, has used this methodology. 50,000 volunteering days since 2017 In 2021, employee participation in the activities of the Schneider Electric Foundation greatly increased. The pandemic raised a lot of fragilities in our society. In this difficult period, volunteers at Schneider Electric have accelerated their contribution to initiatives aiming at access to food, education and health. Mainly through digital and remote missions, they demonstrated their ability to adapt and to help the most vulnerable; above all the youth in need of support and coaching. With more than 25,000 volunteering days in 2021, over 50% of the 2025 target for this indicator has already been reached. Generations SSE #25 50,000 18,469 Baseline 2025 target 2021 Progress 0 100 27,981