"Key positions in career paths as the basis for tailored and sustainable diversity management" SEDiMA

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 greater diversity can be used to secure a long-term supply of skilled workers in companies. The project will be funded over a period of two years as part of the INQA (Initiative New Quality of Work) 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).

With Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH, rku.it GmbH and Massmann painting company, 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 the Offensive Mittelstand as a strong transfer partner, will particularly benefit small and medium-sized enterprises.

Development of scalable measures and tools for diversity management geared towards different stages of working life.

Experimental spaces are being set up in companies where employees, managers and works councils, with expert support from the Social Research Centre and the Offensive Mittelstand, develop concepts for working life-stage-oriented diversity management, pilot them and adapt them based on what they learn. The individual experimental spaces are linked by learning partnerships based on specific topics. Knowledge transfer is ensured through regular meetings of those involved in the experimental spaces. A stakeholder steering committee draws on the expertise of trade unions, employers' associations, chambers of commerce and advisory organisations for the project, enabling a broad transfer of project results.