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Actions – On Diversity in <strong>EPICUR</strong><br />
Furthermore the issues related to university social responsibility are also regularly discussed within the AMU<br />
Senate Committee for Communication and University Social Responsibility, which also organizes a regular series<br />
of lectures on “A Socially Responsible University: On the role of universities in shaping pro-social attitudes”,<br />
whose goal it is to contribute to the discussion on the importance of such values as academic freedom, diversity,<br />
and acceptance in the context of higher education. It also serves as an opportunity to present possible threats<br />
limiting these values.<br />
4.2.2.2. KIT<br />
Intercultural training for international students with and without refugee status<br />
In cooperation with the Karlsruhe-based NGO „Freundeskreis Asyl“, the coordinating office for the integration<br />
of refugees at the International Students Office of KIT has regularly organised two-day-workshops for incoming<br />
international students with and without refugee status, as well as for prospective students with refugee status.<br />
Not only intercultural communication, values and heroes in different cultures, prejudices, cultural differences<br />
and commonalities were discussed, but also how to deal with homesickness and experiences of discrimination.<br />
Workshop on unconscious bias<br />
KIT offers an „Unconscious Bias“ training, which is intended to sensitize employees to this very phenomenon<br />
and serves as a platform for discussion and fosters the development of possible options for action. The goals of<br />
the training are to become aware of and question one‘s own biases as well as to develop and discuss options for<br />
action to reduce „unconscious bias“ in the work context.<br />
Critical Whiteness, discrimination-sensitive language and unconscious Biases<br />
Some staff members of KIT’s International Office have organised (and will continue to do so) several workshops<br />
for their department in order to become more aware of their own hidden prejudices and biases and to become<br />
a discrimination-sensitive office.<br />
Online training for the development of gender competence<br />
Based on interviews with several management and executive staff as well as equal opportunity actors of KIT,<br />
further training needs on the topic of gender competence were identified and, among other things, an online<br />
training for the development of gender competence was developed. It contains the following 5 modules: (1)<br />
Introduction Gender and Gender Competence, (2) Unconscious (Gender) Biases, (3) Gender equitable communication,<br />
(4) Gender-equitable personnel selection, (5) Gender-equitable teaching, research & innovation<br />
Empowerment for international students with experienced racism<br />
Occasionally the coordinating office for the integration of refugees at International Students Office of KIT offers<br />
empowerment workshops for international students who have experienced racism. The workshops offer a safe<br />
space to share negative and violating experiences, to (re-)gain strength and to develop strategies in dealing<br />
with such experiences.<br />
Diversity-Day<br />
Once a year a diversity day is organized with various talks, information desks and other actions about Diversity<br />
at KIT.<br />
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