DiAA – Demokratie in Arbeit und Ausbildung

Project target

Since September 2021, the Auslandsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. (AGSA) has been implementing the model project DiAA – Democracy in Work and Training as part of the BMAS – program “Our Work: Our Diversity” – Initiative for Workplace Democratic Competence. DiAA aims to sensitize trainees and leaders in companies and in training for the topics of intercultural opening, diversity and anti-discrimination and to teach or continuously establish these as sustainable competencies in the field of democracy education. Strengthening democracy and acquiring diversity competence in the sense of intercultural openness represent a strategic response to the challenges of demographic change and migration in order to ensure that skilled workers can be recruited and secured for the future.

Target group

Companies, vocational training centers and training providers, employees, trainees and other regional stakeholders from politics, administration and civil society

Implementation

Awareness-raising and further training offers, practical exercise and reflection units, individually adapted support offers on the topics of democracy building, intercultural opening, diversity and anti-discrimination in the context of recruiting and securing skilled workers:

• Recognition of the added value of social diversity, mechanisms of structural discrimination
• Reflection on own stereotypes and attitudes related to discrimination; effects of experiences of discrimination
• Developing skills in dealing with resistance and conflicts in the work context
• By promoting democratic competence in companies, we support – in line with the Council of Europe (2018)- a democratic culture in companies, which leads to a sustainable securing of skilled workers in the company

We advise you, determine the needs in your company and design tailored seminars, workshops and potential certification offers.