Project examples

"The idea is there, locked inside you - you just have to remove the excess stone." (Michelangelo)

You've always wanted to participate in the Equal Opportunity Award, but you lack an IDEA?

The following are three different projects to emulate. People / companies who want to apply can copy, modify or further develop them free of charge: After each example can be found a corresponding word.doc. released for further editing.

The restaurant "Salt + Pepper" has employed a young chef for a year. The young man is deaf since birth. He attended the school for the deaf in Zurich and then completed training as a chef at a company in Zurich. He graduated from the vocational school for the hearing impaired in Zurich. The communication between the service and the kitchen does not always run optimally. The management therefore decides to offer the employees coaching and an introduction to sign language. The kitchen team receives more intensive training and completes a sign language course...

For further editing: talking hands as word.doc.

The 600 employees of this industrial company come from Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, the Netherlands and Tunisia. At the Family Day, planned for the first time on this scale, there will be culinary and entertainment offerings from these countries. The employees will thus also get to know the other cultures better. The Intercultural Family Day is also a good opportunity for the company to present itself. All employees are allowed to show their workplace to family members on the occasion of a tour of the company...

For further editing: intercultural family day as word.doc. + Useful Addresses.

Telecommuting and part-time combines our model TAT. The company is initially starting with two pilot jobs. A long-time employee in the administrative area can split her 50 percent workload in half between her presence at work and at home after the birth of her child. A young man who has just become a father and works in research and development can work 40 percent at the company and 50 percent from home for a limited period of three years. The long-term benefit for the company is the retention of know-how, resources and skills. Increased productivity and social skills benefit the company, as does recognition as a progressive employer in the labor market...

For further editing: TAT as word.doc.