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What does it take to build a workplace equality toolkit that people actually use, instead of nod along to?

That's the question UnlockEquality is answering this year.

It's an Erasmus+ project I'm lucky to be working on, with five partners across Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Croatia. At Babele we're the technical partner: building the digital repository that will host the project's growing library of workshop materials, interactive serious games, and practical guides on identifying and acting on gender inequality at work.

What I find most interesting about the project is what it didn't try to do. It didn't try to add more lectures, more posters, more awareness campaigns. It asked the harder question instead: which moments do people miss? What does it look like to actually catch a biased decision in the room where it's being made? And what does the practical tool look like that helps a manager, an HR officer, or an adult educator catch it next time?

First pilot rounds start late this year. Excited to keep building this alongside LCCI, Eurodimensions, Stichting Incubator (Inqubator Leeuwarden), and Udruga DONUM.

Project 2025-1-LV01-KA220-ADU-000363211. Funded by the European Union. Views are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the EU or EACEA.

As lead partner for Section 1 — Organisational Policies & Structures — we've produced two practical resources for workplaces in Denmark and across the EU:

📋 A Practical Checklist covering anti-discrimination policies, complaint procedures, and pay transparency — with concrete assessment criteria you can apply directly to your own organisation.

⚖️ An EU Legislation Reference mapping the directives behind these obligations: Recast Directive 2006/54/EC, Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970, Whistleblower Directive 2019/1937, Employment Equality Directive 2000/78/EC, GDPR 2016/679, and ILO Convention 190 — together with their Danish counterparts (Ligebehandlingsloven, Ligelønsloven, Forskelsbehandlingsloven, Whistleblowerloven, and others).

Both documents are free, downloadable, and grounded in current EU and Danish law. From awareness to action.

Explore Section 1 (and the other four) 👉 https://unlockequality.com/toolkit/

🚀 Introducing: UNLOCK EQUALITY
A new European project to tackle gender inequality in the workplace — through practical tools, real stories, and systemic change.

🔎 What is Unlock Equality?
It’s a 2-year Erasmus+ initiative bringing together organisations from Denmark, Croatia, Malta, and the Netherlands to explore how gender inequality shows up at work — and what we can do about it.

🌍 Our mission:
To help employers, educators, and institutions move from good intentions to real action by providing:

✅ Real-life case studies of inequality from across Europe
✅ Checklists to assess organisational practices
✅ A digital toolbox to support inclusive change
✅ Learning materials for HR, managers and educators
✅ Strategies for fairer pay, safer complaints, and better representation

🤝 Who's behind it?
🟢 BABELE (Denmark – project lead & platform design)
🟢 Donum (Croatia – legal & behavioural analysis)
🟢 MCVS (Malta – training & impact)
🟢 Stichting Incubator (Netherlands – dissemination & communications)

🔓 Because unlocking equality means building systems that work — for everyone.

📢 Follow our journey and join the movement on unlockequality.com

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