Yduqs, through its teaching institutions, has been working to strengthen the social pillar for over 50 years – it is certainly in this dimension that we have the greatest positive impact. Our human, social and intellectual development agenda is based on the understanding that education, work and diversity are aspects of the same transformation. We help thousands of people materialize this transformation every year.

The expansion and diversification of higher education institutions allow us to reach students from social classes, with varied life goals and expectations regarding academic education. We find solutions that enable individualized quality learning in all geographic regions, in municipalities with a wide variety of infrastructures. Our greatest asset is our faculty and employee, who are committed to and engaged with the Company's business model and organizational culture.

Extensionism and social projects: expanding social contribution

Extension activities are a second layer of social contribution by Yduqs and its educational institutions. Part of the training process we offer is hands-on, and that has enormous value for communities. We maintain more than 300 practice agencies in different areas - including legal advice, medical and dental care, psychological support - and, in many cases, these are the only services available for that location. At no cost to individuals nor to the Government, these services are provided by our students, under the supervision of our professor, and benefit almost 500,000 people a year.

Discover some of the projects:

We have 14 goals in the social dimension that meet 5 SDGs. Discover all the initiatives in ESG Goals. Click here.

As one of the largest education groups in the country, we are leaders in environmental education and have one of the most complete management programs on the subject. In the coming years, we aim to impact 2 million people with environmental education content and promote clean energy research projects.

In our operations, we seek to reduce our activities impacts on the environment, with updated and compliant environmental management practices, focusing on saving natural, energy, and material resources. Strategic guidelines guide this work, including eco-efficiency actions, selective collection, and waste generation reduction.

We know that climate change is a global challenge and are doing our part for a positive agenda. In 2023, we developed numerous initiatives. After prepared the 2022 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, we submitted it for an independent verification audit, which made it possible to be part of the Public Emissions Registry, reaching the highest level of excellence in the program; thus, we obtained the Gold Seal of the Brazilian GHG Protocol Program. Finally, in line with our ESG Goals, we offset the total CO2e emissions (Scope 1 and 2 of the 2022 inventory) generated by our activities, investing in two renewable energy projects associated with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

In this way, Yduqs positions itself as a Carbon Neutral company, reinforcing the commitment to neutralize CO2e emissions.

Follow our progress on the environmental agenda:

2020

We completed a Distributed Generation project, with the installation of a solar plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with the capacity to produce 190 MWh/month.

2021

We started the greenhouse gas emissions inventory with a focus on key activities, covering direct responsibilities (Scope 1) and indirect responsibilities for electricity (Scope 2).

2022

We strengthened controls with Scopes 1 and 2 and expanded this process to measure the indirect emissions of our value chain (Scope 3).

We launched our 24 ESG goals, six of which are related to the environmental dimension, meeting 3 SDGs. One of them is to impact two million people with environmental content.

2023

For the first time, our Greenhouse Gas Inventory was audited by an external partner and registered in the RPE, achieving the Gold Seal of the PBGHG Protocol.

We impacted almost 300 thousand students with environmental content and implemented 10 clean energy projects in our HEIs. Furthermore, we became a carbon-neutral company.

• Click here to access the Public Emissions Registry details.

• Click here to access the carbon compensation certificates (Retirement of Carbon Credits), available on the official UN Climate Change website (UNFCCC).

We have 6 targets in the environmental dimension, which meet 3 SDGs. Discover all the initiatives in ESG Goals. Click here.

Quality, excellence in management, business integrity and maintaining compliance and ethics remain as the company's commitments in its work to expand access to quality education. We are one of the few organizations in the country, and the only one in the Education industry, to be rated A by MSCI, an international reference consultancy in ESG practices. In a recent survey, we were ranked in the 97th percentile in Governance in Brazil and as 'Best in Class' globally in accountability.

Improving governance and Compliance has been a constant activity since 2007, when the then Estácio Participações was listed on B3's Novo Mercado. In 2021, the ESG Committee was created with representatives from all pillars, dedicated to studying the main guidelines related to the social, environmental and governance impact of Yduqs and making recommendations to the Board of Directors.

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We have 4 goals in the governance dimension, which meet 3 SDGs. Discover all the initiatives in ESG Goals. Click here.