Toward Greater Diversity: SPK Signs Germany’s Charta der Vielfalt
News from 03/01/2022
The SPK has signed the Charta der Vielfalt, Germany’s diversity charter. It hopes thus to strengthen awareness of diversity issues within the Foundation and in the exhibitions, events and other content it creates for the public.
The SPK has signed Germany’s diversity charter, an industry-led initiative for promoting diversity in businesses and institutions. The Charta der Vielfalt, as it is called in German, was launched with the support of the State Minister and Commissioner for Immigration, Refugees and Integration, Reem Alabali-Radovan.
By signing the charter, the Foundation is pledging to strengthen and foster diversity in the SPK. It is committing itself to the goal of creating a working environment in which all of its employees are respected, regardless of their age, ethnic background, nationality, sex, gender identity, or any other aspect of diversity. The core value of diversity will be effectively integrated into personnel processes, organizational culture and content creation. The SPK will provide annual public updates on the actions it is taking and progress it is making regarding the promotion of diversity and inclusive workplaces.
SPK employees have long been active in projects, initiatives and groups dedicated to making the Foundation more diverse. The most recent of these is the Diversity Working Group, a Foundation-wide group established at the end of 2021. Among other things, it will be developing a concept for diversity management in the SPK.
“We have been looking for some time now at the question of how to incorporate diversity into the services and content we create for the public and how we can anchor it more firmly within the Foundation,” comments SPK President Hermann Parzinger. “Our world is a diverse world. And that is why we support a great variety of in-house projects and initiatives dedicated to this issue. The Foundation should not merely reflect the diversity of our society, it needs to actively promote a respectful and sustainable way of dealing with individuality. It is through our differences, after all, that we learn from each other and enrich one another’s lives. Signing the charter was clearly the right thing to do and an important step that will no doubt soon be followed by others after us.”