An intense but successful year 2020 has come to an end for the Diversity @ Work project. The blended learning course on Diversity and Inclusion, developed in the context of the project, was tested in 9 European countries (Spain, Estonia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Poland and Romania). So far, 9 classes have been […]
Even in pre-Covid times people with disabilities were less likely to access education, employment and participate in the community. Poverty risk is real and the probability to experience neglect and abuse is higher. However, this year`s pandemic has increased these risks of socioeconomic exclusion for people with disabilities. The global crisis is deepening pre-existing inequalities […]
The products developed in the context of the Diversity@Work project are now being tested in different European countries. After watching the Diversity@Work online video lessons on Diversity & Inclusion, 17 people from 9 different organisations (Aga Khan Foundation, British Council Spain, Colt Technology, Dronak, Fundación Diversidad, IBERDROLA, Indra, Nationale-Nederlanden and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum) participated today […]
Past July 2nd representatives from 9 European countries (Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Ireland, Portugal and Estonia) met online to jointly discuss the next steps in the Diversity@Work project. As the overall situation related to the Covid-19 pandemic varies substantially among the nine countries, the main goal of the meeting was to understand the […]
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„For Estonia’s HR managers, a fifty-year old person is old as dirt and instead of looking for work, should be thinking of purchasing a gravestone,” a commentator writes on one of Estonia’s largest online news platform. Another adds: “If you’re 50+, then you’ll only get to work as a cleaner, security guard or cashier in […]
On the 27th of April another important milestone was reached for the Diversity@Work project. A first version of the blended learning scripts as well as the first draft of the written part of the Charter Implementation Toolkit were presented to all project partners in an online meeting. In the context of the Expert Feedback Session, moderated by the project’s external M&E team (Stone Soup Consulting), project partners were […]
Culturally diverse teams are a positive step that add to the innovation within an organisation. Sujin Jang writing in the Harvard Business Review last July argues that ‘these cultural teams can also suffer from conflicting norms and differing assumptions; in other words diversity in thought and innovation requires constant freshness, an ever evolving process’. The […]
Last month in Brussels project partners reviewed developments in the Diversity@Work project, delivered by the Irish and Estonian Diversity Charters, along with the Aga Khan Foundation in Portugal. In total, 10 European countries (Ireland, Estonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Spain and Portugal) are involved in this project. All Diversity Charters responded to […]