Since January 2008, over 1,500 pupils and teachers from 24 European countries worked in intercultural, cross-border teams to create joint projects. Partnerships from Slovenia to Malta, Lithuania to Finland and Czech Republic to Luxemburg, produced stories, poems, dictionaries, films, and performances to present in a two-day programme in May held in Graz, Austria.
More than 2,000 entries were received in response to an invitation from the EU to visually portray the meaning of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The competition, launched last March, invited anyone with a camera and a sense of curiosity to submit their own vision of cultures meeting and mixing in their neighbourhood. […]
The European Parliament has endorsed the idea of an EU work permit, called the ‚blue card‘ after the US Green Card, allowing employment to non-Europeans in any country within the 27-nation bloc. In late November, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) adopted a “consultation” report on the issue, with 388 votes in favour, 56 against, […]
Drei deutsche Unternehmen wurden am 7. Oktober 2008 in Chicago (USA) mit dem ersten in-ternationalen Arbeitgeberpreis der AARP ausgezeichnet. Die AARP, mit 40 Millionen Einzelmit-gliedern der größte Seniorenverband der Welt, die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Senioren-Organisationen e.V. (BAGSO) und das Institut für Gerontologie an der Technischen Universität Dortmund würdigten mit dem Preis die innovative Personalpolitik für Mitarbeiterinnen […]
European women should get a minimum of 18 weeks of maternity leave paid at the full level of their previous salary, the EU executive has suggested. The new legislation “will help women to combine work and family life, improving their and their family’s quality of life,” EU social affairs commissioner Vladimir Spidla said while presenting […]
On the 16th of October, European Union leaders agreed on the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, containing sweeping new immigration guidelines focusing on skilled workers rather than refugees. “This pact was adopted unanimously. Europe now has a real immigration policy,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, after hosting the EU summit in Brussels.
With the increasing pool of new graduate entrants with an ethnic minority background, many companies are now tackling diversity by reaching students while they are still in school and their career paths are still undecided. PricewaterhouseCoopers, and other professional services firms, have long been taking this approach.
According to The Future Laboratory, who conducted a report for Microsoft Windows Mobile to explore the future of business working in Britain over the next 25 years, there is a shift towards the utilisation of female and female-oriented soft skills, like flexibility, collaboration, creativity and lateral thinking.
At an international summit held in Astana, Kazakhstan, foreign ministers of more than 50 international countries joined together with Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev to discuss intolerance and religious and ethnic misunderstanding throughout the world.
Vollständig überarbeitete Neuauflage des Standardwerkes zu „Diversity“ ab Dezember im Buchhandel Nach dem großen Erfolg des Fachbuchs „Diversity“ erscheint im De-zember die vollständig überarbeitete Ausgabe im Buchhandel. Michael Stuber erläutert erstmals um-fassend das von ihm entwickelte Potenzial-Prinzip als eingängige Systematik zur Nutzung von Vielfalt in Organisationen. Zahlreiche neue Praxisbeispiele führender Organisationen zeigen, wie Diversity in […]
