EELISA Diversity Award 2023: Apply by June 30, 2023
With its newly launched Diversity Award, EELISA INNOvation and COmmon REsearch Strategy (InnoCORE) is looking for good practices and actions put in place by individual researchers and research institutions (groups, departments, laboratories, centers) that promote diversity and focus on one of the following aspects:
- Disability;
- Ethnic, cultural, migration background;
- Socio-economic background;
- Sexual identity (including LGBTQ+);
- Education background (alternative pathways, lifelong learner);
- Caring responsibilities; Religious background/beliefs.
The EELISA Diversity Award is a non-monetary recognition. A selection of good practices will be presented during the EELISA InnoCORE’s workshop “Building a diverse and inclusive workforce among our academic and non-academic staff”, which will take place in the context of the first EELISA International Conference in Bucharest from October 4 to 6, 2023. The EELISA Gender and Diversity Working Group will be responsible for the selection of good practices as well as the winner, based on the following criteria:
- Impact: the good practice has contributed to significantly promote diversity, inclusion and cultural competency development among the workforce.
- Innovative character of the good practice.
- Reach out: engagement and collaboration with other stakeholders.
Applicants must be researchers, including PhD students, academic staff and non-academic staff from EELISA universities.
Please send your good practices by June 30, 2023 to isabel.salgueiro@upm.es using the template provided.