Ruhr-University-Bochum (RUB) – Bochum, Germany (CASE 2)
The “Room of Silence” does not engage in activities but impacts university life through its existence. At this university, promotion and information regarding the Room of Silence as an inclusive place for everyone throughout the university environment (e.g. posters, social media posts and news articles) were the activities with the greatest impact to promote this initiative.
In addition to activities to support inclusion, RUB implements measures/activities to counter exclusionary and discriminatory practices through binding policy (legislation), strategy/action plan(s), recommendations/guidelines, preventive programmes and through the “diversity portal”. The Diversity Portal (umbrella portal for support services for members of marginalized groups), offers mentoring programmes for (perspective) first-generation students, refugees and other “non-traditional” academics, guides for international students, support service for people with disabilities and chronic diseases, anti-discrimination office, diversity day, family-friendly campus, career development, sensitivity training, research on discrimination; more RUB offers can be found here: https://uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/diversity
IDEA-net: Expanding the network of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) practitioners in higher education through institutional capacity building
Project ref: 2022-1-NL01-KA220-HED-000089789

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