Promoting diversity - seizing opportunities

For us, diversity management means openly appreciating, recognizing and productively harnessing the diversity and uniqueness of all employees. This includes equal participation and development - regardless of ethnic origin, gender, religion, ideology, disability, age or sexual identity. It is important to us to create a working environment in which all employees have fair participation, career and development opportunities. The goal of diversity management is therefore to identify aspects of diversity that are relevant to success and to tap the benefits of different individual competencies, characteristics, attitudes and cultural backgrounds.

Diversity management at Fraunhofer follows an integrative approach and is incorporated into all HR functions as a cross-cutting dimension. For this reason, diversity-relevant issues are included in strategic topics from the outset, and concepts and measures for implementing diversity are integrated into existing structures.

By signing the »The Charta der Vielfalt« in 2011, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft committed itself to the economic benefits of diversity and to tolerance, fairness and appreciation of its employees.