The European Union’s executive commission argued for more linguistic diversity across Europe, stating that knowing more languages can boost cultural diversity, economic growth and intercultural understanding. Leonard Orban, EU commissioner in charge of multilingualism supported the idea to encourage the teaching of two extra languages to students from an early age at schools across the […]
Businesses in Scotland are being urged to embrace diversity to improve performance and productivity. A new initiative, Equality Matters in Business (EMB), has been jointly set up by Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Scottish Government to highlight the positive benefits of employing a diverse workforce and considering diversity in service […]
This year, The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) launched a new annual awards programme. The awards ceremony, in October 2007, highlighted the innovative ways employers are tackling age discrimination in the workplace. In the six months since the award programme was launched, over 45 different policies and age initiatives were entered.
Auf dem „Euroforum“ hielt Diversity-Experte Michael Stuber einen Vortrag über die Vielfalt der Generationen und die Nutzung ihrer Potenziale. „ALTERS – DIVERSITY – MANAGEMENT. Synergieeffekte: Vielfalt der Generationen, Vielfalt der Belegschaft, Vielfalt der Stärken.“
The International Center for Black Women’s Perspectives (AFRA) is taking the European Year for Equal Opportunities for All as a challenge to organise the 1. Black European Women’s Congress from September 27-29 2007 in Vienna Austria.
As Diversity becomes more and more relevant three of the world’s largest financial institutions, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are seeking Diversity information from their legal advisors. Legal firms who are pitching for business are expected to inform the banks on diversity statistics relating to their employees’ backgrounds.
For the first time in history, the group of people over 65 (almost 500 million) outnumbers the number of children under the age of five. The report, Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective, predicts: “Societal aging may affect economic growth, the sustainability of families, the ability of states and communities to provide resources for […]
ForscherInnen aus Bochum und Dortmund haben das Ruhrgebiet als „demografisches Experimentierfeld“ markiert. „Zukunft des Alterns“, kurz ZudA, heißt das Projekt, das die Chancen einer alternden Gesellschaft ausloten will. Bald soll es einen eigenen Studiengang geben, und das Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Bochum und Dortmund zum interdisziplinären Kompetenzzentrum für den demografischen Wandel werden.
Tintin is under investigation by the Belgium’s state prosecutor after a Congolese student, Mondondo Bienvenu, took legal action claiming Hergé’s controversial Tintin In The Congo „constitutes an insult for all the Congolese“ and should be banned. He says, „it is propaganda for colonialism.“
Most people generally imagine older citizens to be living in smaller, more rural areas, but a new study shows that big cities are increasingly harbouring retirement communities. Professor Victor G. Rodwin studied neighbourhoods in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo and found many places where almost 20 percent of the population is 65 years or […]
