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EQUAL EXCHANGE EVENT
EQUALising the workplace – Diversity in Action
Waterfront Hall, Belfast
June 13th 2007
The EQUAL Exchange Event will take place in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast on 13 June 2007, and will build the foundations for a subsequent EQUAL Policy Forum to be held, again in Belfast, from November 28-30 2007.
The Exchange Event is being organised in conjunction with the 8th European Union of Supported Employment (EUSE) Conference, and will bring together a number of EQUAL DPs and EUSE members, working in the field of diversity, to:
Agree on those most promising practices that have been successfully tested in EQUAL, which are of relevance to decision makers in the fields of social and vocational integration and, of course, have something positive to offer to employers
Lay the foundations for the Policy Forum in November 2007, with a view to convincing employers to adopt these promising practices and to persuade decision makers to use EQUAL outcomes to help develop their policies
The Exchange Event is intended to be highly participatory and the majority of the time will be spent in Workshop discussions on the following three themes under the “Diversity” umbrella:
1. Empowerment of vulnerable groups
2. Working with Employers
3. Building the Bridges (between vulnerable groups and employers, through the intervention of a range of agencies and services that are concerned with the integration of disadvantaged groups)
The CNIDFF will present the results of the Equal Project DELEDIOS about discriminations based on sexual orientation in the workplace.
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