UniCredit has been awarded Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year EMEA 2024 in the influential magazine Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Company Awards.
UniCredit was honoured by Environmental Finance for its initiative "Group holistic well-being approach", designed to provide mental, physical, social, career and financial well-being support to all of the Bank's employees throughout the entire employee lifecycle.
The initiative focuses on individual employee well-being while empowering employees to nurture healthy and positive working relationships and support their colleagues.
The "Group holistic well-being approach" is testament to the Bank's commitment to building a caring, diverse and sustainable workplace.
As a pan-European bank, UniCredit has developed local wellbeing initiatives targeted towards Group employees in all of its territories. These have been developed in collaboration with external subject-matter experts and are available in 13 languages, including dedicated learning courses and an interactive guide with concrete tips and suggestions to ensure employee well-being.
Nikolina Zečić, Head of Group Culture and DE&I at UniCredit, commented: "We are extremely honored to receive this prestigious award. Ensuring well-being for our people is a cornerstone of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy. Our Bank is committed to creating an empowering environment for our employees that enables everyone to be and deliver their best. This is a responsibility that requires continuous engagement, education and development. UniCredit is delivering these concrete global and local initiatives in its ongoing efforts to allow our employees to thrive".
UniCredit's dedicated DE&I strategy is fully integrated in the bank's ESG framework and business agenda in all 13 countries where it operates, empowering employees to better serve its stakeholders.
Environmental Finance Sustainable Company Awards recognise those companies that are actively driving change in their approach to responsibility and sustainability, pivoting their resources, operations and entire business model to align or even surpass sustainability and climate targets.