Promoting diversity through key positions in working life – new SEDiMA project launched

12/23/2025

How can companies secure skilled workers in the long term – and make targeted use of diversity in the process? With the newly launched SEDiMA project, sfs will be investigating this question over the next two years in collaboration with strong partners from the field. Funded as part of the BMAS's INQA experimental spaces and with technical support from the BAuA, the project is aimed in particular at small and medium-sized enterprises. The official launch of the project has now taken place at sfs.

Over the next two years, the newly launched SEDiMA project – ‘Key positions in career paths as the basis for tailored and sustainable diversity management’ – will address the question of how companies can ensure a long-term supply of skilled workers through greater diversity. The project will be funded over a period of two years as part of the New Quality of Work Initiative (#INQA) and the ‘Companies and Administrations of the Future: INQA Experimental Spaces’ guideline of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (#BMAS) and will be supported by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (#BAuA).

The close circle of project partners funded under the initiative met today at sfs for a kick-off meeting to discuss the future cooperation and the upcoming work in the project in a pre-Christmas atmosphere. With Klinikum Dortmund, rku.it GmbH and the painting company Massmann, the project will bring together a large company, a medium-sized company and a small business to combine their experiences in learning partnerships and jointly develop scalable solutions that, with the help of Offensive Mittelstand as a strong transfer partner, will particularly benefit small and medium-sized enterprises.

The sfs project team is looking forward to working on the project and is excited about the joint work in the experimental rooms.

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