TO COPE WITH CHALLENGES OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPEMENT AND INCREASING SOCIAL DIVERSITY

For this purpose, the CDD is making science-based contributions and offers an open forum for research, consulting, advanced training and knowledge transfer in the fields of demography and diversity. Task of the CDD is also the facilitation of important social values, such as the right for equality of opportunities, public health, an ergonomic, health-promoting and efficient presentation and recreation of work as well as a successful approach to diversity.

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CDD-Vision

Our vision

TU Dresden is a university consisting of faculties in engineering and sciences, in humanities and social sciences as well as in medicine. This variety of disciplines implicates to foster interdisciplinary approaches among sciences and to integrate and transfer sciences into society. CDD aims at supporting this important task. Our vision is:

The roots of CDD

In 2005, the “Zentrum für Demographischen Wandel (ZDW)“ was founded as a central scientific unit at the TU Dresden. It has processed successfully a considerable number of projects, studies and requests regarding the demographic change. After 10 years, the centre started to re-orient itself, and in 2016, the cooperation of numerous representatives of all five schools of TU Dresden led to the newly named competence centre, “Center for Demography and Diversity (CDD)”...

Our values

We commit ourselves responsibly and unprejudiced to the relevant societal questions in the domains of demography and diversity. We acknowledge the openness of demographic changes and reject the concept of demographic norms and demographic target states. We reject racism and discrimination, and we admit to equality of all human beings and inviolability of human dignity...

FOCUS ON COMPETENCE FOR PRATICAL EXPERIENCE

There are extensive competences available in the domain of causal research, characteristics and implications from demographic changes in many faculties and departments of TU Dresden. Scientists deal with the topic “diversity” also within TU Dresden in many research projects and pursue innovative scientific studies...

EXTENDING THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE

Through CDD an institution becomes available at TU Dresden for outreach through intensive research contacts with a number of other institutions in Germany and in foreign countries. Integration of CDD in the scientific discourse on a national and international level will lead to cooperation and exchange of researchers for research and teaching, participation in annual conferences...

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER CONTINUOUS EDUCATION AND PROFESIONAL TRAINING

In addition to research, consulting services for politics, and support of knowledge transfer, CDD aims at promotion of knowledge transfer among young researchers through appropriate activities for training. CDD supports continuous education and professional training in the domain of demography and diversity in this respect.

Center for Demography and Diversity (CDD)

The Center for Demography and Diversity provides well-founded scientific contributions to master the challenges arising from demographic changes and the increasing diversity in society (e.g. in companies, communities and regions). CDD developed from the Center on Demographic Changes (ZDW) and aims at becoming an interdisciplinary competence centre of TU Dresden with strong links to current practice and operating in the long-term.

CDD offers a broad forum for research, consulting, continuing education, and advanced training in the domains demography and diversity. Scientists research consequences from becoming older, identify reasons for shrinking of the (employed) population at the same time and are interested in the increase of diversity (in particular with respect to sex, sexual identity, disability, social background, culture, migration story, including age itself) as an outcome of demographic, societal, economic and political developments.

CDD presents its activities in the public and aims at supporting important societal values such as the right on equal opportunities, and the healthiness of population, and the ergonomic, health promoting and efficient design and re-design of work as well as a successful treatment of diversity. Our work aims at appropriate description of problems and their preventative handling. This requires interdisciplinary cooperation, bundling of research capacity and the development and use of both, intelligently designed engineering services and concepts for management.

CDD-Ordnung Stand: 13.06.2016 (CDD-Gründung)