EPICUR EDI Toolkit

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