EDF - Launch of the call for entries to the 2nd EDF Fem’Energia prize, in partnership with WIN France

The Fem’Energia prize has two categories:

• The "Student" category is for young women who want a career in nuclear energy. 3 prizes will be awarded: the first for secondary school students taking the "nuclear environment" professional baccalauréat, the second for students in the 2nd and 3rd years of post-baccalauréat study and the third for students in the 4th, 5th and subsequent years of post-baccalauréat study.
• The "Women working in the nuclear sector" category is for women under 40 years of age already working in the nuclear industry (site managers, supervisors, project managers, etc) and/or those who are involved in activities promoting women in the nuclear industry. One prize will be awarded for women working in France and a second for those working in Europe.

Two types of prize will be awarded on 15 October 2010 by a jury made up of representatives of EDF, WIN France and from the academic world:

• For the "Students" there are three grants of €2,000, accompanied by the offer of an apprenticeship contract, a professional development or training contract, or assistance in finding a first job.
• For the "Women in work" the prize consists of a trip for two people to the United States with a visit to a nuclear power station.

The application forms can be downloaded as of today from the www.edfrecrute.com site. The closing date for receipt of applications is 20 April.
As a responsible employer, EDF considers diversity to be a determining factor in its attraction and performance. For its positive actions in encouraging equal employment opportunities between men and women, EDF was awarded the
Equality mark in 2006, and yet again in 2008. The company emphasised its commitment in this field by signing the 2nd company agreement on equal employment in 2008.

Training will therefore be the focus of an updated, more ambitious and more coherent policy to meet the current challenges of the sector, namely: recruitment requirements, new skills, and knowledge transfer between the generations. In particular this policy will call for a dialogue with the trade unions, which will be initiated within the Group in France in the coming weeks, with the first results showing from the end of the first half of 2010.

The EDF Group, one of the leaders in the energymarket in Europe, is an integrated energy company active in allbusinesses: generation, transmission, distribution, energy supply andtrading. The Group is the leading electricity producer in Europe. InFrance, it has mainly nuclear and hydraulic production facilities where95% of the electricity output involves no CO₂ emissions.EDF’s transport and distribution subsidiaries in France operate1,274,000 km of low and medium voltage overhead and undergroundelectricity lines and around 100,000 km of high and very high voltagenetworks. The Group is involved in supplying energy and services tomore than 38 million customers around the world, including more than 28million in France. The Group generated consolidated sales of € 64.3billion in 2008, of which 47% in Europe excluding France. EDF is listedon the Paris Stock Exchange and is a member of the CAC 40 index.


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