📆 Date: 20.11.2025
🌍 Location:Law Room, Academic Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311GJ Leiden, The Netherlands
👨🏻‍💻 Format: In-person
⏳ Time: 9:30 – 16:30 (local time)
📢 Language: English
🏅 Certification: Certificate upon completion

Join a free, certified course on fair and inclusive recruitment practices

As Artificial Intelligence becomes a key player in hiring processes, it holds both promise and risk. While AI can speed up recruitment and reduce manual tasks, it can also reinforce harmful biases, from misinterpreting candidate behaviour to limiting the rights of workers.

Whether you’re shaping hiring policies as an HR practitioner, advocating for rights through a CSO or trade union, navigating the job market, developing AI systems, or researching fairness in recruitment — this session is for you.

Join the BIAS Project’s free capacity-building session to explore how AI can be shaped to serve fairness, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment.

Why attend?

✅ Understand how AI impacts hiring and workers’ rights — no tech background needed
✅ Recognise and mitigate bias in algorithmic tools
✅ Apply legal frameworks like the GDPR and AI Act to prevent discrimination
✅ Balance automation with human judgment for ethical hiring decisions
✅ Strengthen your organisation’s voice and internal capacity for ethical AI advocacy
✅ Connect with others through practical, scenario-based exercises and open discussions
✅ Enjoy a collaborative learning environment — with a free delicious meal included!

What’s included?

💠Case study analysis: Explore real-world AI recruitment examples and their impact on minority groups to raise awareness, with insights from ETUI *European Trade Unions Institute).
💠Self-reflection: Assess your own biases and their influence on AI recruitment tools.
💠Practical sessions: Engage with ETUI’s AI Games, identify fairness challenges, and discuss the role of TUs and CSOs in promoting fair recruitment.
💠 Legal & ethical grounding: Get practical guidance on applying relevant laws and principles to your work.
💠 Networking space: Exchange experiences and strategies with professionals across sectors.

Who should join?

• HR professionals from public and private organisations
• Trade union representatives
• Civil society organisations and NGOs working on labour rights, inclusion, or digital policy
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion officers
• Anyone interested in fair and transparent recruitment practices in an AI-driven world
  

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