Sidenor 2022 Sustainability Report

118 Sustainability Report 2022 | Commitment to society In favor of innovation This year, as in previous years, Sidenor participated again in the SPRI’s BIND 4.0 program. BIND 4.0 is a public- private intelligent industry open innovative platform, which has been created by the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment through the SPRI Group and its platform for the Basque entrepreneurial ecosystem UpEuskadi, which has become an international reference program since its foundation in 2016. Each year, the platform attracts the interest of technology start-ups from all over the world, whose main objective is to accelerate their entry into the market with the help of reference clients, while promoting innovation and the digital transformation of Basque companies by collaborating with the start-ups. This sixth edition of BIND 4.0 shows an increased interest in this program, as 772 applications of start- ups from up to 82 different countries were received. After a period of evaluation, Sidenor has selected the start-up “Recircular” for the search for new opportunities to valorize our industrial waste. Recircular is a start-up dedicated to the identification of circular economy opportunities in companies in order to give waste a second life, generating economic savings as well as social and environmental benefits. Visits to our facilities One year more, we welcomed to our work centers the visit of students from, among others, the Executive MBA – Master Business Management of the University of the Basque Country, Room4Steel, the Master in