Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2021

1. Information on the Company’s Activities /

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critical thinking skills that will serve them well in the future and help them to tackle their communities’ challenges. Specific actions ranged from the provision of 40 scholarships from Airbus Canada at McGill and Polytechnique Montréal (ten scholarships per year for four years), to online and offline classes across five cities in China reaching 3,000 students, plus a mentorship and funding scheme supporting around 40 university students in China who were struggling economically. Bringing science to life in the classroom, the employee-led initiative, Humanity Lab, developed an educational wind-tunnel for use in schools in Africa, prioritising low-cost designs with components that could easily be sourced or 3D printed locally. Since 2018, Humanity Lab projects have been supported by more than 150 committed employee volunteers to innovate solutions for disability, environment, education or humanitarian issues.

responded to over 80 satellite imagery requests from partners representing around 43,000 km 2 for disaster assessment and response plans. In addition, a bespoke satellite imagery training session was provided to Action Against Hunger to increase their capacity in satellite imagery analysis and interpretation. The Airbus Foundation also participated in the Action Against Hunger (AAH) global wellbeing challenge Connected Against Hunger’. During four weeks, over 600 Airbus employees collectively walked, ran and cycled more than 182,000 kilometres to raise funds to contribute to the work of AAH. Supporting the future generation Young people are the lifeblood of our future and of society. It is crucial that we inspire and engage young people, particularly by playing an active role in fostering inclusion, diversity and community values at an early age. The Company continued to offer support through mentorship and education to enable students to develop the creativity, innovation, leadership and

The Airbus Foundation has enriched its STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) digital platform – The Airbus Foundation Discovery Space (AFDS) – with new educational videos and activities to support its youth programmes across 17 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In 2021, the programmes involved over 400 volunteers and directly reached around 4,700 young students. The fourth edition of the AFDS Moon Camp Challenge built on the success of previous years with 1,823 projects submitted from 53 countries by over 4,100 students and supported by over 600 teachers.

Airbus Foundation Youth Development Programmes

Europe: - Stevenage, UK - Filton, UK - Broughton, UK

- Ottobrun, GERMANY - Hamburg, GERMANY - Manching, GERMANY - Friedrichschafen, GERMANY - Donauworth, GERMANY - Elancourt, FRANCE - Toulouse, FRANCE - Marseille, FRANCE - SPAIN (national programme)

Americas - Mirabel, CANADA - Wichita, KS, USA - Mobile, AL, USA - Mexico city, MEXICO - Itajuba, BRAZIL

Asia: - KOREA - CHINA - PHILIPPINES - PAKISTAN

Africa: -KENYA -BOTSWANA

-MALAWI -NIGERIA -SOUTH AFRICA

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