It pays off in the long run.

Exclusion is a huge social challenge. That's why we started Amesto Aces. The goal is to create opportunities where others see challenges and to provide young people who have fallen outside the labour market with a career. In collaboration with Salesforce, Amesto Aces is offering young people between the ages of 18 and 30 the opportunity to become certified Salesforce consultants under a 16-week programme. There is a lot to be gained from innovative thinking and, when it comes to staffing, your best employees might not necessarily be the ones you thought. Amesto Aces came about as the result of a joint venture entered into between Amesto and Ahmed Hassan, Liban Khader Salad and Abukar Hassan. They have several years of experience from the social entrepreneur "Ideal Security AS" which is involved in the prevention of exclusion. They were recently named *Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2022" at the NHO's Annual Conference.

The Red Cross and Amesto have undertaken a vital project. The aim was to ensure that the Red Cross could respond more quickly and efficiently to the COVID-19 crisis on a global basis. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is active in 192 countries with 160,000 local branches. The challenge involved all of these submitting free text reports on the status of COVID-19 challenges on a regular basis. Around 70% of these reports were in English, while the remainder were in various local languages. Reading and understanding them took time and it was thus virtually impossible to prioritise contributions and the use of resources. Amesto NextBridge used the very latest advances in natural language processing (NLP) in order to ensure that the text analyses were up to human standards. The algorithm rapidly read all of the thousands of reports, categorised them and understood them. As a result help was able to to arrive quickly and efficiently.

Vital for the Red Cross – a world of opportunity for everyone else.

Amesto has been collaborating with Sandwich Brothers and Sorbet Sisters since 2018. These companies are social entrepreneurs who help new Norwegians to enter the labour market. Their slogan is "Playing it cool on the integration front”. A great expression when producing and selling organic sandwiches and lollypops to private individuals and businesses. Through this work they are developing the expertise of their employees and offering work experience, language training and networks. To put it simply, they serve as a stepping stone to Norwegian business and industry.

Many immigrants possess the knowledge, abilities, perspectives and motivation to create value and contribute towards new jobs, but they lack a platform for realising their potential and ideas. Charge wants to do something about that. Charge is a startup incubator for immigrants. The founders of Charge are receiving help for a whole range of things including professional networking, legislation and regulations, cultural challenges and understanding of how the public sector works in Norway. Amesto Toptemp became part of this collaborative venture in 2018 and has contributed the search and recruitment expertise required in order to strengthen the Charge platform.

UN Global Compact Norway is organising the Young Sustainable Development Goals Innovators programme. YSIP is a ten-month acceleration programme aimed at young professionals between the ages of 18 and 35. Their aim is to encourage innovation and innovative solutions that can create social and market values. Amesto participated for the first time in 2021, with three participants who were working on the development of climate accounting.

Amesto is part of "CEO Commitment". Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Pledge. The aim is to bring together key leaders, decision-makers and personalities from companies and organisations who believe in the value of diversity in the workplace. Increased diversity and inclusion in businesses requires solutions both within and across organisations. CEO Commitment is the first network for leaders who have taken the step to prioritise diversity and inclusion at a strategic level. So far 66 organisations have signed up and 39 industries are represented, affecting 43,709 employees.