Award-winning ReDI School Denmark Has a New CEO
PRESS RELEASE
10.1.2023
Integration & Equality for Refugee and Immigrant Women:
As of 1st of January 2023, Vibe Lindgård Bach, has joined ReDI School of Digital Integration, putting extra power behind one of Denmark’s most successful integration initiatives for women with refugee and immigrant backgrounds.
ReDI School is a non-profit IT school working towards the digital upskilling of immigrant women, further enhancing diversity and inclusion in the Danish job market. The organisation, which is headquartered in Copenhagen’s North West Block (Nordvest), offers IT courses and job support in collaboration with its corporate partners, e.g. Microsoft, Danske Bank, Visma Economic, 3Shape and KMD, in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Kolding.
ReDI School started in Germany in 2015, in response to the European refugee crisis of summer 2015.
ReDI School expanded to Denmark in 2019 and to Sweden in 2022. The organisation’s success stems from the collaboration between the business sector and the NGO. Partner companies offer funding, volunteers, mentors, free computers, courses and jobs.
Since 2019, 535 women in Denmark have gone through one of the various IT courses ReDI School offers, and 57% of the course participants have gained employment, internships, or further education after one year.
Vibe Lindgård Bach joins ReDI School after most recently serving as Deputy Director of the entrepreneurial organisation DISIE - Danish Institute for Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship. In the past, she has worked with development, management, communication and sales within several business organisations, including Dansk Industri and Finansforbundet.
Vibe is a Kaospilot alumnae, from Viborg and Aarhus and has lived in Copenhagen since 1996.
“We are happy that Vibe Lindgård Bach will contribute her experience and help lead ReDI School in this remarkable period of growth. ReDI already has strong and solid results and is ready to take on an even greater responsibility to support refugee and immigrant women in Danish society. We therefore need even more new and strong partners, and it will be Vibe’s most important task to attract them”,
- Anne Kjaer Bathel, Danish Board President and Founder & CEO, ReDI School of Digital Integration.
“I am looking forward to, together with the team in Copenhagen and Aarhus, getting ReDI School’s unique model out to even more people. We must develop cooperation with both existing and new partners who can both see the value in getting involved in an important social endeavour and gaining access to more competent employees. In 2023, we aim to collaborate with several municipalities, in order to pave the way for even more women into the Danish labour market”,
- Vibe Lindgård Bach adds that she is looking forward to working with the team that has exceptionally built ReDI School to the success she is taking over.
The VELUX Foundation, L’Oréal Fund for Women, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Microsoft, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Spar Nord Foundation and Grundfos are among the largest partners.
Website: here
LinkedIn: here
ReDI International: here
Background, numbers and partners in Denmark: pdf
CONTACT:
Anne Kjaer Bathel, Board President - ReDI School Denmark and Founder of ReDI School of Digital Integration: anne.bathel@redi-school.org, +49 176 982 333 342
Vibe Lindgård Bach, CEO of ReDI School of Digital Integration, Denmark: vibe@redi-school.org, +45 2226 0184