EU Platform of Diversity Charters

Column by Alice Odé, Coordinator Dutch Diversity Charter Alice Odé, Charter coordinator and Program Manager SER Diversity at Work, helped to ensure a launch of a Diversity Charter in the Netherlands. That did not go without its challenges. Examples of neighboring countries that already had such a Charter convinced hesitant politicians.

Celebrated each May, European Diversity Month draws attention to the importance of promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. This is your organisation’s chance to take a stand and promote diversity and inclusion.

Starting in August 2021, our pilot project "Raising Antiracist Awareness - Strengthening Competence for Diversity in the Workplace" is now concluded with a product launch: the anti-racism toolbox.

This is one of the conclusions of the report "Innodiversity in the Spanish business 2019-2022", published by Fundación Diversidad (organization responsible for the Diversity Charter in Spain) and the academic center IE Foundation, which was presented at the European Commission Representation in Spain on February 1st.

On December 1 2022 the Italian Diversity Charter organized a webinar on Italian Gender Equality Certification System, in collaboration with Italian Department for Equal Opportunities, UNI (Italian standardization body), Bureau Veritas, Rina, Certiquality and DNV.

On 13.12.2022, a ceremonial event for new signatories of the Diversity Charter was hosted by Mrs. Monika Ladmanová, Head of the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic at the premises of the European House. In this event also participated in person Mrs. Adela Šípová, Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, who deals with the diversity and inclusion agenda.

The Diversity IN Check is a survey which has been designed to diagnose the maturity of companies/organisations in managing diversity and building an inclusive workplace. Employers prioritising diversity management are better able to meet the challenges of the modern world by harnessing the potential of diversity to enhance innovation, contribute to their financial performance and at the same time strengthen social cohesion. The organiser of the project is the Responsible Business Forum, the coordinator of the Polish Diversity Charter.

5 new organizations have become signatories of the Romanian Diversity Charter in the last two months, among them Intersport Romania, The University of Bucharest, Dover Business Services, Tenneco and Vitesco Technologies Engineering Romania.

The biggest news is that we have “Knowledge bank” where we have collected all our digital activities by discriminations grounds as well as all the recorded films. The aim is to make it easier to find knowledge and be able to share it.