EPICUR EDI Toolkit
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1. Introduction<br />
At the European University <strong>EPICUR</strong>, people from a wide variety of backgrounds study and teach. They differ in<br />
many ways, such as the way they work, their language, culture, religion, gender, origin, biography, disability,<br />
attitudes and appearance.<br />
<strong>EPICUR</strong> is an alliance dedicated to the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion and aims to provide a space that<br />
is welcoming and encouraging to all scholars, particularly those, which have been traditionally underrepresented<br />
in academic environments. All <strong>EPICUR</strong> members, therefore, welcome all suggestions and ideas that contribute<br />
to make <strong>EPICUR</strong> as inclusive and useful to the <strong>EPICUR</strong>ean community and stakeholders as possible.<br />
This <strong>Toolkit</strong> is a document to bring together and highlight existing <strong>EDI</strong> measures within <strong>EPICUR</strong>, which can<br />
be taken as examples not only for encouraging universities to add new activities to their existing strategies,<br />
but also for serving as inputs for considering <strong>EDI</strong> measures which would be worth being implemented on an<br />
alliance level. This paper has to be seen in context with the <strong>EDI</strong> Fundamentals document, which is based on<br />
relevant EU Strategies that underline the importance of this topic for a European University Alliance. Both papers<br />
take good practices and examples of <strong>EDI</strong>-related strategies existing at <strong>EPICUR</strong> universities and use them<br />
as a basis for further work and actions towards consistently improved and self-reflective equality, diversity and<br />
inclusion within <strong>EPICUR</strong> from its staff to its practice.<br />
Consequently, this <strong>Toolkit</strong> starts with definitions of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and thereafter describes<br />
concrete measures taking place at different <strong>EPICUR</strong> universities with regard to each of these three action lines.<br />
By defining the actors/target groups as well as the potential indicators to analyse the effect of <strong>EDI</strong>-related measures,<br />
the document provides suggestions on how to implement <strong>EDI</strong> aspects better in day-to-day activities and<br />
thus serves as model framework, so that every <strong>EPICUR</strong> member can then decide autonomously whether or not<br />
to implement some of the proposed activities within its own institution. At the same time, this model framework<br />
also suggests activities that could be taken up at <strong>EPICUR</strong> alliance level if the governing bodies decide to<br />
do so.<br />
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