[04/01/2020]

To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that QUIDGEST – Consultores de Gestão S.A. reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to sharing this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.
Sincerely yours,

Cristina Marinhas
Chairman of the Board Members

• Our respect human rights include supporting and recognizing the following international and regional human rights instruments:
 UN International Bill of Human Rights
 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
 Children’s Rights and Business Principles by the UN Global Compact, UNICEF and Save the Children
• Quidgest’s Code of Conduct, Supplier Code of Conduct
Our policies and directives reflect our commitment to respect human rights. Through these guiding documents, we set and communicate our expectations on mutual respect, non-discrimination, safe and healthy workplaces, freedom of association and collective bargaining, working hours and compensation and zero tolerance to any forms of modern slavery or child labor. These topics are also part of the mandatory annual training session for all employees and mandatory reading for those entering in the company.
• Diversity Policy: Diversity is the inclusion of individuals of different genders, national origins, religions, regions, educations, social statuses, and LGBT, regardless of whether these traits are innate or acquired, visible, or invisible.
• Quidgest is serious about keeping all forms of discrimination and unfair practices out of its operations around the world. This stance is reflected in our participation in the United Nations Global Compact since 2017.
• Digital Skills for all: From our first steps we dreamed of driving a world where everyone embraced technology as an essential tool for training new skills of present and future generations. This dream has become our mission. We are active members of the European Commission's Digital Skills and Job Coalition. We aim to contribute directly to the promotion of digital skills in Europe and the world, combating the lack of digital skills in Europe.

 Since 2019, we have implemented our Quidgest Academy that provides different innovative training programs where education and technology are in perfect harmony.

 In one year we have provided 14 training sessions, to more than 100 trainees who wished to develop their digital skills.

1. We promote gender equality and the #girlsintech movement to drive women's ability to empower themselves through technology. We are strongly committed to diversity and inclusion and believe that by improving the diversity of our workforce we will better reflect our customer base and wider society. We believe our strong engagement to diversity is a source of business strength and we are proud to be the first tech companies led by a woman, our CEO Cristina Marinhas.

2. Open dialogue between executive management and employees: every year we promote several “ChallengeU” initiatives in order to give voice to our employees. It is 4-hour session to share ideas, inputs and initiatives that can contribute to the cohesion of Quidgest's visions of the future.

3. Initiatives to promote a healthy lifestyle of its employees: Since companies are an important scenario and an information channel for health promotion among its employees, Quidgest decided to promote healthy eating habits in the workplace. These are some of our 2019 initiatives:
- Every day we offer our employees a nutritious soup in our cafeteria to all our employees;
- Every year, we promote an annual solidarity race to all its employees, customers, partners and friends.
Check our run IT editions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNE7SZ6PQ8I

1. Our recent numbers confirm that our movement has been successful. In 2018, our female employees represented 30% of our workforce. In 2019, we achieved 49.5 %, meaning that almost half of our employees are women.
Year Total of employees Female %
2018 105 32 30.5
2019 99 49 49.5

2. In 2019, Quidgest doubled open days and gathering events for employee’s families, in order to create a healthy and friendly environment for all:
Year Gathering events
2018 3
2019 6

3. Open dialogue between executive management and employees: every year we promote several “ChallengeU”
Year ChallengeU sessions
2018 9
2019 9

• Quidgest is an ISO14001 environmental certified company, with a strong Social Responsibility component and actively supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
• Quidgest signed the “Business Ambition for 1.5ºC”, an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact Network that makes companies responsible worldwide for setting emission reduction goals and objectives to achieve zero net emissions by 2050 and limit the global warming at 1.5ºC by 2030;
• In Quidgest’s Environmental Policy you can find:
 Our Recycling Program: a general campaign designed to educate employees about the benefits of recycling, developed every year. We also changed our habits and offered a porcelain mug to all employees, abolishing the internal use of plastic cups;
https://quidgest.com/noticia/reduzir-reciclar-e-reutilizar/
 Quidgest’s Water Conservation Plan: in 2019 we have implemented in our headquarters an automatic device on our taps to combat water waste.
 Our concerns in providing a workplace free of recognized hazards and maintain healthy working conditions for all company employees, by closely monitor all facilities for the prevention of pollution;
 Our commitment to strive to continuously improve our commitment to the above-stated principles through the exercise of our EMS, improved technology, production changes and due diligence.

• Quidgest obtained in 2019 Portugal's Global Compact Network seal “Sociedade Justa, Ethical Business”. This recognition enhances the company's commitment to a market levelled by fair decisions, and the fight against illegitimate privileges that distort competition and lead to bad and often illegal decisions.
• Quidgest’s Code of Conduct is straight forward—the Company prohibits offering or receiving bribes or corrupt payments in any form. This policy applies equally to all employees, agents or representatives, vendors, clients, business partners or other service providers. All our contracts mention “anti-corruption” and/or “ethical behaviour”, in order to enforce this commitment.
• Transparency of information: Quidgest also strives to prevent fraud and other forms of misconduct in a number of ways, including by periodically sharing information with all employees on “QuidSpark” sessions.