Commitments

• Being alert with regard to good practices and ethics

  • All our missions are performed in the utmost respect of common professional practices and professional secrecy – covered by confidentiality agreements. All the necessary means are engaged to deliver missions given by our clients in respect with our “High Service Quality” standard.
  • Vae Solis Corporate is the 1st SME to be certified “anti-corruption” by the international agency ETHIC Intelligence. We act accordingly to the highest ethical norms. This certification validates our actions over the past years to develop our integrity and deontology policy. The anti-corruption certification covers a large scope that includes: respect of laws and regulations, management of conflicts of interest, gifts and invitations, charities, sponsoring, ethics for purchasing, etc. It also includes internal communication about rules, procedures and ethical values.

  

• Being attentive to human capital

  • The consultancy is committed to ensure a “women-men balanced workforce” at all levels
  • No fixed-term or temporary workers are hired. Independent workers are called for missions requiring specific competences (e.g.: journalists, graphic designers, etc.)
  • The VSC Academy provides internal trainings on a regular basis to improve consultants’ knowledge and expertise.

• Contribute to the public debate

  • Vae Solis is a partner, speaker and member of various circles and events: The Circle of Economists’ Aix Economics Meetings, 21st Century Club, Sciences Po
  • The firm’s directors have been continuously involved in the promotion of diversity and dialogue. Arnaud Dupui-Castères is a director and founding member of Club XXIe siècle, Les Entretiens de l’excellence, and a director of Solidarité Sida; Philippe Manière is co-founder of Humanity in Action France and sits on the Aspen France Institute’s board of directors.
  • Members of the firm are book authors and teachers in a variety of high-level courses (Political Siences, Business Schools, National School of Magistrates, War School)

• Supporting all forms of dialogue and intellectual reflection

  Vae Solis supports associations whose common denominator is to support integration and emancipation through education, reflection and dialogue. Our commitment at their side demonstrates our will to promote difference as a source of enrichment, through the confrontation of diverse opinions.

  • Free Afghanistan is set to facilitate access to education for Afghan girls and encourage them to play an active role in Afghanistan’s development. Its activities are centered around education and carried out in cooperation with local communities and authorities. Since its creation, the association has opened and enabled re-opening 12 schools, 4 health education centres, 4 nurseries and 3 libraries.

  

  • The Aladdin projectn works towards a better understanding of Jews and Muslims communities in the Middle East, through education on Shoah’s history in countries whose populations are deprived of direct access to basic books. For the first time, its digital library brings together Arabic and Farsi books such as Anne Frank’s Diary or Primo Levis’ “If it’s a man”, which were previously unavailable in these languages.

  

   

  • The Aspen Institute France is a place for international exchange, bringing together leaders from different horizons who wish to reflect together on major contemporary issues and commit themselves to preparing the world of tomorrow. The Socrates program, which embodies the Aspen Institute’s motto “From success to significance”, brings together young people from the business world, the media and politics to compare their views on current issues, through the analysis of major classical texts.

  

  • o Founded in 2008, Sciences Polémiques is a student association of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, dedicated to training in the public speaking arts and promotion of eloquence. Sciences Polémiques mainly organizes weekly training sessions between students, which include rhetorical exercises. It also organizes several major eloquence competitions at Sciences Po, including the Philippe Seguin Prize which rewards the best speakers at Sciences Po each year, as well as other events linked to stakeholders from the political world and civil society.