Community and society

All our local sites have strong business and wider social links with the local community. A key indicator of these links is the number of partnerships we have with universities, colleges and schools.

STS44: ST partnerships with the academic community
	2004	2005
Partnerships with universities, colleges, schools	286	217

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Students (apprentices/interns/cooperative education placements): 3,175

We also have many local initiatives to support the local community whereby staff donate time or other resources such as cash and in-kind donations.

EC10: ST donations			KUS$
	2003	2004	2005
STS39: Total cash donated to charitable associations	402	291	1,645*
STS39a: Estimated value of in-kind donations to community and society**			655

The increase in donations in 2005 reflects the large sums of money donated, by local sites and at the corporate level, to relief programs for the Asian tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.

The data related to employee hours in 2005 was not reliable enough to publish.

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	2005
Number of recognitions or awards received for excellence in CR	84

STMicroelectronics Foundation

As part of the ST Foundation's 'Digital Unify' program to bridge the digital divide through making our 'Informatics and Computer Basics' training course available to local stakeholders, the following results were achieved:

• Total new trainers 2005: 112
• Total trainees 2005: 8,053

This takes the total to:

• Total trainers from beginning of program: 396
• Total trainees from beginning of program: 12,168

In addition to this, the Foundation made the following monetary contributions and charitable donations in 2005 (these are separate from financial donations from STMicroelectronics):

• Total monetary contributions to digital divide-bridging activities (US$): 118,273
• Total charitable contributions (US$): 117,172

More information on the ST Foundation can be found on our website and at www.stfoundation.org