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Our initiatives for inclusion

We are committed to promoting an organisational approach based on understanding, respect and enhancement of differences (in terms of gender, age, orientation, disability, ethnicity, skills, socio-economic status, political stance, religion or other beliefs, and so on) for each person within our company, with a view to sharing and expanding viewpoints, as well as developing skills, talent and physical and intellectual energies of each individual.

“Each of us has a unique mix of diversity. The aim of Diversity and Inclusion Management is to fully enhance and utilise the contribution that each person can make to achieving the corporate objectives and better equip the organisation in facing the challenges and uncertainty arising from the global market.”

Ferrovie dello Stato Group’s Code of Ethics, February 2018

Policy Diversity, Equality & Inclusion

The FS Italiane Group’s Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) Policy promotes the implementation and dissemination of a culture dedicated to valuing diversity within the context of the Group’s processes and daily activities, through the creation of a shared approach to human relations.

All this is manifested through the creation of a safe and positive environment in which individuals are free to express their unique qualities, and can learn more and engage in dialogue about other specific aspects of the organisation. Exploration and dialogue with others give rise to new ideas and concepts aimed at promoting the continuous improvement of the Group itself and all of its staff. Valuing diversity means seeking out, recognising, and supporting everyone’s unique talents, which are capable of providing new perspectives, and generating opportunities for the Organisation’s growth and development.

Download Gruppo FS DEI Policy (only italian version)

Gender Equality Plan

The FS Group has long been at the forefront of the fight against gender discrimination.

With the Gender Equality Plan (GEP), we wish to express our commitment by recounting the action that the FS Group has taken and how it intends to continue in the pursuit of the objectives of its Strategy and the principles that inspire it, consistent with the values expressed in the Code of Ethics.

We believe that spreading a culture of gender equity is a shared responsibility that makes everyone – no matter their gender – protagonists of social and organisational change.

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For the inclusion of all types of diversity

Our differences are a source of innovation and inspiration that allow us to generate new ideas and put them at the service of the company to achieve the objectives of the business plan. This is why we have taken the action and implemented initiatives for inclusion to improve our corporate reality.

Code of Conduct

A code for integration and non-discrimination in the workplace that pursues recognition, the enhancement of and respect for differences, as well as decisive obstruction of all forms of marginalisation by any FS Group employees.

InclusivaMENTE

InclusivaMENTE is the project that includes change management pathways aimed towards all employees in learning to recognise and mitigate stereotypes that affect — even subconsciously — each person’s choices, behaviours and leadership style. The FS Group is engaged in an in-house awareness campaign, with digital pathways and HR training on inclusion matters.

FS Italiane in the top 10 of the Diversity Brand Index

FS Italiane Group features in the top10 most inclusive Italian companies for the Diversity Brand Index 2024. The research, curated by Diversity and the strategic consultancy company Focus MGMT, measures and rewards the ability of companies to effectively develop a culture oriented towards diversity & inclusion through initiatives and projects implemented in Italy. The results of the Diversity Brand Index 2024 were presented on 13 February at the Diversity Brand Summit 2024 (DBS), now in its seventh year, which provides an opportunity to discuss the ethical and economic value of inclusion. FS Italiane Group was recognised for its commitment to activities related to the communication campaign against harassment in public places ‘Per fermare le molestie non c'è una soluzione. Ma 5’ (There is no one solution to stop harassment. But 5)

Women's Serie A Division and Gruppo FS present "Frecciarossa Game On - Women in Sport 2025"

‘Frecciarossa Game On - Women in Sport’ is the first event entirely dedicated to sport and women's empowerment, organised by the FIFC Women's Serie A Division in partnership with Frecciarossa, Trenitalia's high-speed train. An opportunity for discussion, through testimonies, stories and debates, with successful women in the sport, culture and business sectors.

The FS Group, together with Trenitalia, is very conscious about women’s empowerment, and has always set itself the goal of spreading a culture focusing on gender-equal talent enhancement, inside and outside the company. Initiatives such as this one not only concretise the Group's support for sport, but for women's leadership in general.

Women’s Italian Cup 2023: FS Group is Title Sponsor

The FS Italiane Group as Title Sponsor of the 25th edition of the Women's Football Supercoppa Italiana. Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane confirms its partnership with the Women’s Football Division of the Italian Football Federation, becoming the new Title Sponsor of the Women’s Supercoppa Italiana for the year 2023.

With this collaboration, the FS Group strengthens its commitment to the enhancement of female excellence and leadership. Inclusion, gender balance, training and passion are the winning components in recognising and supporting talent and uniqueness

Women in Motion

The Women in Motion project aims to promote women’s careers in technical areas and professional sectors that have been predominantly filled by men to date.

With the support of women employed in the technical areas, our Group visits high schools, colleges and universities to present the technical trades offered by FS, to inform students about relative job prospects and provide them with the necessary tools to make conscious decisions and to best express their potential and talent.

Female Empowerment

Associazione Valore D: the FS Group is a supporting member of “Valore D”, an association of large companies created to support inclusion within the company. Valore D offers skill-building seminars to support women through targeted training initiatives, laboratories and knowledge-sharing meetings for experts in human resources, inter-company mentoring paths and programmes of excellence for executive levels.
Thematic seminars on female talent: these courses aim to accompany women on a journey of discovery and observation regarding the distinctive characteristics of women as models, with their positive and negative repercussions, to recognise them, identify them in one’s self and enhance them.
Internal mentoring pathways for women middle managers: a project designed to foster the inclusion of categories more typically exposed to unconscious bias and to support them on paths of empowerment, to help women take direct responsibility over their career and learn to manage it positively.

Women in transport- EU Platform for Change

With only 22% of women at a European level, the transport sector is not gender balanced. The European Union and the European Transport Commission (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies) have founded Women in Transport - EU Platform for Change to promote better balance thanks to the sharing of best practices amongst adherents. FS Italiane, amongst the leading members of the Platform, is recognised as the company most committed to promoting an improvement in women’s employment, thanks to the May 2019 publication on the Platform of the Women in Motion project, evaluated by the European Commission as an example of a corporate path of excellence aimed at overcoming stereotypes regarding technical careers.

Women's Emporment Principles – UN Women

In March 2020, the Group formally joined WePS (Women’s Empowerment Principles) established by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of WOMEN (UN Women), through which the Company aims to enhance and promote the presence of and equal opportunities for women with respect to the workplace, the market and the community through which the Organisation operates. There are seven empowerment principles covering both the achievement of quantitative (increasing female presence in the leadership pipeline; measuring and monitoring the development of female presence in the Company) and qualitative objectives (promoting the training and development of women’s skills, improving workplace health and safety, supporting human rights and the condemnation of any form of discrimination, adopting approaches such as in marketing that transmit empowerment to women, supporting advocacy and communicating initiatives on the theme of female empowerment).