The Group, whose companies are spread throughout the territory, has long asserted its corporate citizenship, alongside its recognized role as economic catalysts and driver of competitiveness (see Competitiveness and the territory), as a promoter and supporter of initiatives and projects that could have a positive social impact for the community, linked to a distinctive strategy aimed at positioning Finmeccanica as an active player, in the full belief that a company’s success is judged not as an absolute value, but in the way it is achieved and for its ability to maintain it over time, in accordance with the aspirations and hopes of the society we live in, and people who help create it.