For the second time, ADEM organised the DUOday action in May 2019, an initiative aimed at raisingdisability awareness in companies.

Created in 2008 in Ireland, the DUOday concept aims to raise awareness ofdisability issues among businesses. Taken up by Belgium, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the organisations initiating this event wish to transform DUOday into European action.

One of DUOday's objectives is to convince employers of theskills, performance and autonomy of disabled workers.

Businesses open their doors to a person with adisability. A volunteer employee then creates a DUO with this person in order to allow him or her to actively participate in his or her usual professional tasks and/or to observe his or her work.

In all, more than 10 partner companies welcomed people with disabilities who followed a volunteer employee during his or her working day, and 28 candidates with disabilities were able to benefit from this action. Two hirings were finalized following one of these days.