Bee Engineering announces the creation of Bee Social Opportunity, a program of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through which it starts to provide 2000 hours of its team annually to SMEs and NGOs. The Pro Bono program aggregates initiatives already underway, such as Tech Guidance, opens space for new entities to support and reinforces the 1500 hours available last year in this type of initiatives. Solidarity is at the heart of the Innovation and Technology company, which, in a phase of necessary digital acceleration of the economy, puts its experience at the service of society.
In 2020, Bee Engineering launched the Tech Guidance initiative to support SMEs in the transition to a remote work regime. 6 SMEs benefited from technology services during the first months of the conditioning caused by the pandemic. In the second semester, the company participated in the construction of the Guide for Inclusive Recruitment, a project of the employability working group of the Portuguese Association for Diversity and Inclusion (APPDI). A multidisciplinary team transformed the Guide into an interactive and intuitive digital tool.
Since its inception, Bee Engineering has developed CSR actions. They take place in interactions with employees, customers, partners and civil society. The support can be technological projects, contributions of goods to Solidarity Institutions or initiatives to support four-legged friends of the Zoófila Union, for which three dogs have already been sponsored (Açorda, Ginja and Laminhas).
José Leal e Silva, Executive Director of Bee Engineering, says: “The fact that someone has a certain capacity, gives him immediate responsibility for how to use it. In this sense, each company has a responsibility to use its capabilities to help improve the society in which it operates. If each one contributes, in whatever way we can, we will help in several improvements, be they environmental, social, innovation or any other that allows to create shared value. Societies only evolve when all of their elements understand the principle of contribution, based on this premise that Bee Engineering has been present and for this reason that we are strengthening our performance in this field”.
