At a time when nationalist narratives promote homogeneity, the SoCareNet Europe Conference 2018 in Budapest showed the opposite: diversity is Europe’s very foundation – and embracing it is key to peace, prosperity and global credibility.
Diversity in sport has long been a marginalized topic and is now regarded as a key competence, making it a compulsory subject for students at the German Sports University in Cologne. The “Week of Diversity” also takes place here together with the University of Cologne. And not just with feel-good topics.
For D&I practitioners, the societal climate and political environment are essential context factors. Both have direct impact on what organisations are doing in regards to diversity, equal opportunities or integration. A first of its kind report shows how societal and political dynamics relating to D&I have been changing in recent years – to the point […]
The German conference of Tagessspiegel and Diversity Charter has become one of the household events for German diversity practitioners. The organisers see this as a mandate not only to present current trends, but also to offer an appealing mix of methods and a broad range of topics. With success.
In early summer, four expert visits within the Intercultural Cities (ICC) programme of the Council of Europe took place to the Jordanian cities of Sahab, Wasitiyah, Zarqa and Amman to test a new methodology within the ICC network: the Asset-Based Community Development. Diversity practitioners would call it a self-help programme for municipalities.
The value of networking and joint work on the regional level is familiar to many Diversity stakeholders in Europe or the Americas, particularly in the area of disability, where a lot of specialised groups exist. The first General Assembly of the African Disability Form (ADF) marks an important step in the representation of people with […]
The Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) was the first Spanish university that implemented a special support programme for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) already ten years ago. After the graduation of the first four cohorts, the initiative was evaluated and the results of the study (by Dolores Gasset) was first published in 2012, in Spanish […]
A current study of companies owned or operated by the Czech State reveals lower numbers of women in top management and on boards compared to the country’s average. Even worse, the researcher from the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences found a negative trend over the past trend years in the Public Sector in […]
250 Experten diskutierten auf dem Kongress „Diversity als Chance“ in Berlin über die Vorteile von Diversity Management und Defizite im Umgang mit Unterschieden. Einen Bericht über die Veranstaltung aus dem Newsletter „Vielfalt als Chance” können Sie hier nachlesen.
Singapore and Malaysia. After a couple of days in the city-state of Singapore, the financial metropolis of South East Asia and migrant hub for peoples from neighbouring states as well as a large number of Europeans, we are now on our way north to Malaysia. “Malaysia truly Asia” is this country’s marketing slogan and it […]
