14th March 2025
📆 Date: 14th March
🌍 Location: Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw, Leiden (NL) — Room B0.25
👨🏻💻 Format: In-person
⏳ Time: 9:30–16:30 CET
💂 Language: English
🏅 Certification: Certificate upon completion
AI is revolutionizing hiring, but hidden biases can undermine fairness. Did you know that job-matching algorithms may unintentionally disadvantage women? For example, slower response times from women are often misinterpreted as a lack of interest, reducing their job recommendations.
To address these challenges, the BIAS project will offer free, hands-on capacity-building sessions across Europe from February to December 2025, aimed at HR professionals, AI specialists, and representatives from trade unions and NGOs. We invite you to join the session in The Netherlands on March 14th, where you will learn how to critically assess AI tools, address ethical concerns, and integrate fairness into recruitment processes.
✅ Understand bias in AI and HR
✅ Evaluate AI’s potential and limitations
✅ Balance AI insights with human judgment
✅ Develop strategies for fair and inclusive hiring
🔹 Case Studies – AI-driven recruitment challenges
🔹 Self-Reflection – Identifying personal biases
🔹 Practical Sessions – Hands-on experience with AI tools
| Content | Duration |
| Welcoming and introduction | 9:30–9:55 |
| What is a bias? Psychological & sociological underpinnings and self-reflection exercise | 9:55-10:35 |
| Elements of AI | 10:35-11:15 |
| Break | 11:15-11:25 |
| Ethical and social implications of AI in terms of bias | 11:25-11:55 |
| The policy framework | 11:55-12:25 |
| Wrap-up and conclusions | 12:25-12:30 |
| Networking lunch | 12:30-13:30 |
| Welcoming and agenda of the session | 13:30-13:40 |
| AI in recruitment: existing tools and systems and case studies of bias in recruitment using AI | 13:40-14:40 |
| Break | 14:40-14:50 |
| Challenging AI — A group exercise | 14:50-16:20 |
| Wrap up, exercise post questionnaire and conclusions | 16:20-16:30 |