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Social Justice and Diversity Training

A training concept critical of discrimination
Solarpavillon auf dem Campus der FH Potsdam

Social justice and diversity has proven itself as an anti-discrimination, inclusion and participation concept and is now applied in many fields. The discrimination-critical approach is about the possibility of understanding structural discrimination as an interaction of individual, institutional and cultural discrimination practices, reflecting on stereotypes and one's own interconnectedness and professionally developing options for action against any form of discrimination.

Period:

Course 26 (on-site): 09/10/2025 | Course 27 (online): 06/11/2025 

Status:
Free places
Format:
In-house
Certificate Course
Degree:
University certificate
Credits:

10 ECTS points

Requirements:

Work experience, studies

Participation fee:

3,390 euros (from course 26)

Educational leave:

Recognised in Brandenburg and Berlin

  • Prof. Dr. Gudrun Perko

    The education and training concept "Social Justice and Diversity" has proven itself as an anti-discrimination, inclusion and participation concept (developed since 2001) and is now used in many areas. Our critical approach to discrimination is about the possibility to understand structural discrimination as an interweaving of individual, institutional (including legal) and cultural discrimination practices, to reflect on stereotypes and to understand one's own interweavings. The deepening and discussion of the different forms of discrimination that people are affected by on the basis of certain diversity categories and their systemic intersectionality ultimately leads to the development of concrete options for action or room for manoeuvre against each form of discrimination in this further education programme.

    Prof. Dr Gudrun Perko
    Scientific management
  • In the further education programme you will be trained according to our training concept "Social Justice and Diversity". We teach specially developed methods and maxims of working: both for the online courses (webinars) and for the face-to-face courses. The focus is always on topic-related discussions that are designed to be dialogue-based, appreciative and non-moralising. You will gain the qualification to conduct social justice and diversity training according to our concept. At the same time, they learn to apply elements of the training in their respective (professional) contexts.

    Leah Carola Czollek
    Scientific management

At a glance

Scientific management

Goals

Participants gain the qualification to conduct social justice and diversity trainings according to the training concept "Social Justice and Diversity". At the same time, they learn to apply elements of the training in their (professional) contexts.

Target groups

Interested persons and multipliers who want to work professionally for non-discriminatory interaction between people.

Topics

Basics of training:

Meaning, methods, contents

Exit question:
What role does social origin play?

Exit question:
We know each other and yet we do not know each other?

Initial question:
How deeply are stereotypes and fantasies about "others" anchored in culture, using anti-Semitism as an example?

Initial question:
What does racism mean and how do the "others" come into being?

Online module for learning a new method.

Initial question:
What roles do norms of body and health play and what images are attached to them?

Initial question:
How powerful are ideas of gender and gender plurality?

Exit question: 
Adultism (children and young people), older people: How are children treated and how are older people treated?

Online module for learning a new method.

Initial question:
What strategies and options for action are there against structural discrimination?

Dates & Schedule

Seminar times

Thu 4.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Fri / Sat 10.00 am – 6.00 pm

Scope
180 seminar hours

 

Course 25 – online

Course 26 – presence

Course 27 – online

Module 123/ – 25/01/202509/ – 11/10/202506/ – 08/11/2025
Module 213/ – 15/02/202527/ – 29/11/202511/ – 13/12/2025
Module 313/ – 15/03/202529/ – 31/01/202612/ – 14/02/2026
Module 410/ – 12/04/202526/ – 28/02/202612/ – 14/03/2026
Module 515/ – 17/05/202519/ – 21/03/202616/ – 18/04/2026
Module 612/ – 14/06/202523/ – 25/04/202621/ – 23/05/2026
Module 703/ – 05/07/202521/ – 23/05/202625/ – 27/06/2026
Module 804/ – 06/09/202525/ – 27/06/202603/ – 05/09/2026
Module 916/ – 18/10/202527/ – 29/08/202615/ – 17/10/2026

Contact

ZEW – Further Education Unit

Room 1.10

Registration & Information

Coordination & Organisation ZEW