By implementing this project we wanted to innovate the support for organisations and institutions for their diversity fostering practices, to systematize existing knowledge, assessment and good practice resources regarding diversity and to provide the youth, education and social welfare an “all-in-one” resource for fostering diversity in their work with all youth that will help them create a diversity revolution in their organisations.
Diversity is positioned highly in the EU value system. But still, in practice, diversity is more often than not, seen as an obstacle that needs to be overcome, and not as something we should thrive to. Youth work, education and social welfare system, the systems that youth, and especially youth with fewer opportunities interact the most, are the main focus of our project. The issue is that organisations/institutions have different levels of organisational culture (regulations, procedures, practices), climate (relationships between managers, staff and youth) and competences (of their managers, staff and youth they work with) that all affect their overall influence on youth. All these elements are highly important for diversity fostering and should be complementary to each other in order for the organisation to reach to and respond to needs of all youth. Throughout the project, we wanted to support organisations and institutions enhance their fostering of diversity in practice, by helping them view this issue holistically, „find their way“ through possibilities offered to them, so they can navigate towards those enhancement resources that are relevant for their specific cultural/climate/competences needs.