Over thirty actions throughout the country

Since five years, the Diversity Day Lëtzebuerg is an unique opportunity for any company, public organisation or non-profit organization to illustrate its daily commitment and to promote diversity by setting up punctual and fun actions for all of its employees. This year again, many organisations participated with workshops, discussion groups, games, job switches, film screenings, theatre plays, breakfasts, lunches, round tables, conferences or exhibitions.

The minister for Family and Integration and patron of the Diversity Charter Lëtzebuerg, Corinne Cahen, participated in this annual meeting by going at the encounter of dynamic actors throughout the Luxembourg territory : visiting a company that suggested to switch jobs between an office worker and a bus driver, best diversity cake contest, diversity awareness raising event, artistic workshop and reflection on the diversity of families.

Four organisations honoured during the Diversity Awards Lëtzebuerg

The Diversity Day, rich in actions, was closed by the biannual Diversity Awards Lëtzebuerg ceremony aiming to reward the four best diversity management practices in Luxembourg. For this occasion, Kinepolis welcomed 120 participants curious to find out about the award winners.

For this third edition, the jury chose the most accurate projects in terms of sustainability, steering and replicability.

The 12 nominated practices in four categories were selected by an expert pre-jury :

Recruitment, Welcoming and Integration

• Peertraining : for a shared integration, 4Motion
• Discovery internship : welcoming an intern with a disability, Hogan Lovells
• Sports for all : come with your differences, Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette

Career management

• Arendt Speech Contest, Arendt & Medernach S.A.
• Climbing-Up programme, Caceis
• Mentoring Circles, State Street

Well-being and working conditions

• Parental Charta and policy, Axa
• Key life stages : learn and exchange for an improved well-being, ING
• Luxembourg Professional LGBT+ & Allies association, State Street

Communication, Values of the organization

• Social Re-Use, Digital inclusion
• Know Your Rights, DLA Piper
• Embrace diversity : differently together, together differently – discover different religions and cultures, elisabeth

The jury rewarded…

• Recruitment, Welcoming and Integration : 4Motion for training young diversity and integration ambassadors through non-formal education methods.
• Career Management : Arendt & Medernach for their « Arendt Speech Contest », a public-speaking contest which calls out on stereotypes and allows to develop new skills.
• Well-being and working conditions : State Street for creating an inter-company network on sexual orientation and identity topics, the Luxembourg Professional LGBT+ & Allies Association.
• Communication and values of the organization: Digital Inclusion for the « Social Re-Use » project which allows digitally excluded people to develop IT skills through classes and computer repairing workshops, which are then distributed  to people in need.

Beyond the four rewarded practices, the Diversity Awards jury expressed a special mention to Axa, Hogan Lovells and elisabeth for their remarkable practices.

The biannual Diversity Awards ceremony also marks the beginning of a series of events which will honor all these initiatives in order to allow as many companies, public organisations and non-profit organizations to replicate them.

Find all the nominated practices on the Diversity Charter Lëtzebuerg’s Youtube channel : https://bit.ly/2Ywz25V.