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• Cooperative project to train more than 600 young women from five countries in Africa in ICT, coding, leadership and communications skills, in the context of the African Girls Can Code Initiative
• Siemens to make €780,000 available in the form of hardware, IT training materials and technical assistance to enhance young girls’ access to jobs and employment opportunities
• UN Women Liaison Office to African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to coordinate activities under the umbrella of „African Girls Can Code Initiative“

Siemens AG and UN Women Germany committed to jointly support the implementation of the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI), an Africa continental program which aims to provide comprehensive training in information and communication technology (ICT) as well as coding and leadership skills to girls and young women in Africa. In this connection, the partners emphasized the vital role education plays in addressing gender inequalities and accelerating the empowerment of women and girls. The project’s target group comprises young women aged 17 to 25 from Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Within two years, as many as 625 young women will benefit from the partnership; all offerings are free of charge for the participants. By 2023, Siemens will initially provide €500,000 for this cause and will support two-week, full-time coding camps in the five countries with digital literacy, programming as well as personal development skills. Specifically, the coding camps will cover topics such as robotics, the Internet of Things, animation, 3D printing, gender equality and women’s empowerment, leadership, and communications. 

• Companies to work together to speed up energy transition
• Partnership to focus on green hydrogen projects at Shell and its customers
• Holland Hydrogen 1 project in Rotterdam key milestone in partnership to advance green hydrogen

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Shell Global Solutions International BV have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on developing low-carbon and highly efficient energy solutions that support the energy transition. The agreement will focus on projects that produce green hydrogen for industrial applications at Shell and its customers, as well as enhancing collaboration in the areas of biofuels and circular chemistry. Under the MoU, Siemens and Shell will create solutions that increase energy efficiency and generate sustainable power, consisting of, but not limited to, digitalization, efficient networks, and the production, distribution, and application of green hydrogen. The partnership, inked with Siemens’ Electrification and Automation business unit, has the potential to strengthen synergies for both parties. While Siemens intends to work with Shell to accelerate the latter’s transition towards net-zero operations, Shell seeks to supply Siemens and its affiliates with low carbon products that reduce emissions across the supply chain, in Siemens’ operations, and in the use phase of Siemens products, consisting of but not limited to supply of biofuels.

• Siemens Mobility to retrofit 176 ViRM double deck rail vehicles with the latest ETCS onboard technology
• Siemens Mobility will provide seven years of maintenance services for ETCS system 

Siemens Mobility has been awarded a contract by NS Group N.V, the Dutch Railways, to retrofit 176 ViRM trains with the latest European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 technology. With the ETCS Level 2 upgrade, the fleet will be able to operate with a greater degree of efficiency for the remainder of its lifetime, while also meeting the latest European standards for rail safety interoperability. Siemens Mobility will provide the ETCS onboard unit equipment and installation support, as well as seven years of maintenance services for the system. The retrofitted vehicles will be delivered in the period 2023–2027. 

• Hydrogen generation plant with electrical capacity of 8.75 megawatts opened in Wunsiedel
• Facility to generate 1,350 tons of hydrogen a year and cut CO2 emissions by about 13,500 tons
• Opening attended by Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder and Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius
• Siemens is technology and financing partner

In Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, one of Germany’s largest green hydrogen generation plants has been planned digitally and commissioned by Siemens, demonstrating the key role hydrogen can play in Germany’s energy future. Around one year after the official groundbreaking ceremony, Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder, Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius and Siemens Financial Services CEO Veronika Bienert handed over the plant to the operating company WUN H2, represented by Managing Directors Thilo Rießner and Philipp Matthes.

• Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to help the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and its championships to improve environmental sustainability across motor sports.

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of world motor sport and the federation of the world's leading motoring organizations, has selected Siemens as “Official Sustainability PLM Software Supplier” and has adopted solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to collaborate with F1 Teams and to support FIA and its championships including F1 in sustainability efforts.

• Siemens Mobility supported RATP and Ile-de-France Mobilités in the complete automation of Line 4
• Siemens Mobility fully automated the line with its digitalized systems and CBTC signaling technology
• The automation of Line 4 will centralize control of operations, increase availability, reliability, and capacity 

The modernization of Line 4 of the Paris Metro has been completed with the highest grade of automation and the automatic driverless metros have now begun revenue service. The digitalization and optimization of Line 4 will allow RATP to safely increase frequency by reducing intervals between trains from 105 to 85 seconds. Chosen in 2015 by RATP to automate Line 4, Siemens Mobility supplied their digitalized communication and CBTC signaling systems to modernize the network. After a trial run with no passengers that began in June, the automation of Line 4 is now a reality. More automatic driverless shuttles will be introduced into the line's traffic over time to achieve full automation by the end of 2023.

• Siemens empowers world premiere of the Opera Namibia project Chief Hijangua in Windhoek
• Opera staged by a multinational team of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa

On September 9, 2022, an ensemble of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa presented at the National Theatre of Namibia the premier performance of Namibia’s very first opera in the country’s capital, Windhoek. Chief Hijangua is a celebration of a bilingual and intercultural exchange on the dramatic history that Namibia and Germany shared during colonial times and is sung in Otjiherero – one of Namibia’s national languages – and German.