Each year, the European Week for the Employment of People with Disabilities (SEEPH) provides an opportunity to highlight a major workplace challenge: building truly inclusive work environments—beyond intentions and statements.
In 2025, Scalian chose to embed this week within a collective and operational approach, combining awareness-raising, experience sharing, and hands-on initiatives with a clear objective: to shift perspectives, question practices, and foster sustainable inclusion across our teams.
Raising awareness to better understand the realities of disability
Throughout the week, several key moments were offered to employees to address disability in all its dimensions—often misunderstood or reduced to stereotypes.
Five conferences were organized around core themes such as:
- persistent prejudices related to disability in the workplace,
- mental health at work,
- innovation as a driver of inclusion.
These sessions opened dialogue, provided practical insights, and created spaces for reflection and constructive questioning.
In addition, educational workshops were led by our committed partners (Bbird, Ariane Conseil, Goods to Know, T’hompouss Consultants), alongside our disability coordinators. Designed as interactive sessions, these workshops encouraged a pragmatic and accessible approach to disability-related topics, closely connected to everyday professional realities.
DuoDays: one day of immersion to move from theory to practice
Among the initiatives carried out during SEEPH, our participation in DuoDays—alongside our partner AKTISEA (an adapted enterprise)—stood out as a flagship action.
The concept is simple: for one day, pairs are formed between Scalian employees and people with disabilities, offering a real immersion into our roles, teams, and working environment.
These 17 DuoDays meetings enabled far more than a simple job discovery. They fostered:
- the sharing of experiences and career paths,
- stronger mutual understanding,
- and above all, the dismantling of still-prevalent stereotypes.
When people work together, barriers recede. Preconceived ideas give way to real-life experience, genuine encounters, and human connection.
Building sustainable inclusion, not symbolic actions
Implementing such initiatives requires time, commitment, and sometimes a willingness to challenge established habits. At Scalian, we are convinced that inclusion can only be sustainable if it is grounded in concrete actions, close to teams and real working situations.
SEEPH 2025 is therefore part of a broader approach: continuously improving our practices, strengthening our disability policy, and building a professional environment that is accessible, respectful, and open to everyone.
Because inclusion cannot be decreed in a single week – it is built step by step, through sincere and shared actions.
