European Diversity Month

Join the European Diversity Month and make diversity visible in your organisation!

Who can take part? – EVERYONE!

• Private companies of all sizes and sectors
• Public organisations – cities, towns, schools etc
• Non-profit organisations and associations – local, national, European…
• Charter signatories and non-signatories

Taking part of the Diversity Month does not need to take lot of time or cost a lot

• Choose a specific day, a week or the whole month to put diversity in focus in your organisation
• When trying to come up with ideas, get your employees involved as well – you might get new, innovative ideas and guaranteed participation at the event
• You could organise an event for your staff or a public event open for everyone.
• Once you come up with an idea, register your event on the EU Platform of Diversity Charters and see what others are doing

Some examples to get you inspired

Internal events and initiatives

• Networking breakfasts, meetings with diverse speakers to raise awareness
• Trainings, workshops, seminars on sensitising employees on diversity and their unconscious bias
• Photo exhibition – what does diversity mean for your employees?
• Take concrete steps towards changing the work environment and invest into employee well-being
• Facilitate creation of networks at work dedicated to different aspects of diversity

External events and initiatives

• Organise open days in your organisation to interact with your clients
• Organise roundtable discussions with specialists on the subject
• Prepare and launch some special products/services for diversity day/week/month
• Volunteer as an organisation or facilitate volunteering for your employees during working hours on the day
• Create partnerships with local NGOs/youth centres
• Encourage mentoring

Communication and raising awareness - Make diversity visible!

Before and on the day of the event, communicate to your staff and to the outside world on your commitment to diversity.

Examples of communication

Internal communication

• When preparing for the event and on the day, an e-mail to all the employees informing on organisation’s commitment to diversity and its values, benefits on diverse workforce and why it is important for the organisation
• Prepare flyers and posters to make event and diversity visible

External communication

• Inform your clients and partners on your commitment to diversity and on event(s) you’ll be organising in organisation’s newsletter
• Use your Diversity Charter’s network to connect to other organisations
• On the day, give out small goodies to your clients and partners dedicated to diversity

This year´s theme is ethnicity & race.

Pepp hour (Only for members)
- 27th of Janary 9-10 am  with special guest Anu Ritz European Commission & Anna Carlsson Sigstedt
- 17th of February 9-10 am with special guest  Stephan Dirschl, Diversity Charter Germany  & Anna Carlsson Sigstedt.

We’ll see you in May 2021 at the European Diversity Month!