The 2025 Great workplace award winners have been announced by the Mental wellbeing, diversity, equity and inclusiveness (MWB DEI) working group. The working group, a joint initiative from FVE, Fecava and IVSA, discussed ongoing initiatives of the VetJoy project at their in-person meeting on 2 September. Topics included Great Veterinary Workplace Awards, the DEI Research grant, launch of the Vet-for-a-day outreach programme and the Team Coaching vouchers and Mentorship programme.
2025 Great workplace award winners:
- In the small/medium non-clinical workplace category : Vita-Vet (North Macedonia), for 'involving all staff in decision-making and demonstrating equity and inclusion through female leadership’.
- In the large non-clinical workplace category : Hall Mark Veterinary and Compliance Services (United Kingdom) for 'prioritising employee development through dedicated training, mentoring, wellbeing check-ins and flexible deployment.'
- In the small/medium clinical workplace category : Clinica Veterinaria Giaconella (Italy), for 'innovating clinic management with new technologies that allow flexibility, high standards and impact measurement.'
- In the large clinical workplace category Tierarztpraxis am Stadtpark (Austria) for 'fostering a positive work environment based on psychological safety and committing to staff wellbeing via individual tutoring, consideration of DEI, and mistake reviews.'
DEI in veterinary education
Finally, FVE invites you to join its upcoming welcome session on championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in veterinary education, taking place on 2 October, from 17:00 to 18:00 CEST (connect here).
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