At Edvance, diversity and inclusion are not just aspirations, they are values that are deeply embedded in our everyday working culture. We believe that everyone should be able to find their place, be heard, respected and supported in an environment where differences are recognised as strengths. Every day, we bring these convictions to life through meaningful and practical actions.
DEVELOPING A MORE INCLUSIVE CULTURE
Diversity Workshops: Understanding Others by Understanding Ourselves Better
Since 2023, 23 Diversity Workshops have enabled many employees to become more aware of their biases, privileges and the mechanisms that influence our interactions. These sessions create opportunities for open dialogue, encourage reflection and foster more thoughtful and inclusive behaviours. New workshops will be offered in 2026, demonstrating the strong collective momentum that has been built around this initiative.
Proxité: One Mentor, One Connection, One Opportunity
Through our partnership with the association Proxité, Edvance employees have the opportunity to become mentors to young people aged between 11 and 26.
Behind this partnership are personal stories, meaningful encounters and life-changing opportunities. Supporting a young person means sharing experience, listening, encouraging and guiding them. It is also often an enriching experience for the mentor, who learns as much as they give.
Gender Balance Network: Moving Forward Together Towards Equality
The Gender Balance Network is a committed internal network working every day to promote gender equality and highlight inspiring career journeys.
The network leads initiatives that showcase female talent, raise awareness of gender stereotypes and encourage women and girls to pursue their ambitions with confidence. Through networking events, visits to secondary schools and sixth-form colleges, and awareness-raising campaigns such as International Women's Day on 8 March and Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the network creates spaces for dialogue and engagement that make a real difference.
Raising Awareness of Disability: Understanding, Opening Up and Including
Through the European Week for the Employment of People with Disabilities (SEEPH), conferences, discussion sessions and awareness-raising activities, we work to make our workplace more accessible and more attentive to the realities of disability.
These initiatives remind us that inclusion begins with recognition, understanding and the willingness to learn from one another.
We move forward together with the conviction that diversity strengthens our teams and gives greater meaning to our work. Diversity workshops, mentoring programmes, internal networks and disability-focused initiatives all reflect the same ambition: to create an environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and contribute fully to a more inclusive and people-centred collective endeavour.
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Members of Edvance’s Gender Balance Network attending the Fem’Energia Awards Ceremony.
Outreach activities in schools.
