Ruhr-University-Bochum (RUB) – Bochum, Germany
The activities that the department has carried out (in the last two years) with regard to equal access/inclusion/diversity are:
- support and counselling for students and university staff;
- lectures, workshops, seminars for students, faculty and non-teaching staff;
- public promotion (e.g. production of media content such as podcasts);
- improving digital accessibility;
- improving physical accessibility.
At this university, two activities had a big impact on raising awareness towards sexism and to strength moral courage at RUB: spread of information among all campus members through public relations and by educating people who function as multipliers. RUB has about 60.000 campus members and therefore, it is very important to empower people to be active against sexism, discrimination in all forms and to help prevent violence.
The last innovative practise/tool introduced at RUB when it comes to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equal access under the “Our Campus” initiative was the development of an open-access self-learning-course which is published on the website of the university. The course focuses on people who have no, or rare, knowledge on topics such as sexism, racism, intersectionality (and others) and shall motivate people to educate themselves and to get information about how to get active as a solidary person against discrimination and violence. The course works with Slides (Instagram-Style), information texts and links to other programmes, information centres, websites, platforms etc.
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 and preventive programmes.
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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