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In Brussels, the 25 Israelis had also the opportunity to hear from other organizations which are also specifically dealing with education, at the European Union Jewish Building and the European Jewish School.
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BRUSSELS (EJP)--- Twenty-five Israelis who hold senior positions in the educational sector ended a weeklong seminar in Brussels to learn how Europe’s manage diversity and bring back new ideas for their projects in their communities.
The seminar was organized by the Jerusalem-based Mandel School for Educational Leadership Graduate, a foundation created in the US to invest in education, in partnership with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
"We wanted to see how Europe approach the question of diversity which is also an important issue in Israel," Pierre Kletz, Vice-President of the Mandel Foundation in Israel, told EJP.
"The Mandel Foundation is the place to be for anyone who wants to be innovative in education," he added.
The seminar included presentations by high-level specialists in the field of diversity, including officials from the European Commission and experts from top business schools such as INSEAD in Paris, Oxford and ESADE in Barcelona.
"The Mandel Foundation believes that the leader in a company or any organization can change things and that’s why we provide professional tools to graduates that will help them plan some projects.".
"Here in Brussels we had professionals in the education system, both Jewish and Arab Israelis, school principals, general inspectors of the education ministry,….”.
"Managing diversity is increasingly part of the business sector’s strategic response to a more diversified society, customer base, market structure and workforce," said Gesa Böckermann, a policy officer in the anti-discrimination unit of the European Commission’s directorate-general for employment, social affairs and equal opportunities. She presented an overview of the Commission’s activities in promoting diversity within European companies.
"It is particularly important for us to know Europe’a approach of the issue as Israel has been traditionallly more focused on the American model," said Mendy Rabinovitz, one of the participants at the seminar, who is the principal of “Hadassah Neurim”, a regional high school which aims to help each student achieve their maximum potential by encouraging them to create a personal vision and showing them how to realize it.
While in Brussels, the 25 Israelis had also the opportunity to hear from other organizations which are also specifically dealing with education, at the European Union Jewish Building and the European Jewish School.