EPICUR EDI Toolkit

Actors
5.1.7. University of Strasbourg, France
The University of Strasbourg welcomes
56,000 students, of which 20% are international
students covering 150 nationalities.
Moreover, 12% of its lecturers and researchers
are coming from abroad. With
its 35 components, 72 laboratories and
research units, it is distinguished by the
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
nature of its training offer. It conducts a
research of excellence provided by nearly
2,800 lecturer-researchers, including four
active Nobel Prize winners.
Located at the heart of one of European
capitals as home of (the first) key European
institutions, blending French and German
cultural influences, its history naturally
ties it to the Upper Rhine region that
concentrates a core academic potential in
Europe.
The UNISTRA has a long-standing experience in coordinating networks. In addition to the EUCOR network –
The European campus, the UNISTRA is also very involved in other major European partnerships such as the
Franco-German University, the Utrecht Network, and other Erasmus networks holding more than 800 agreements.
The university also benefits from over 1,500 agreements and conventions with more than 750 universities
in 75 countries. The UNISTRA is involved in more than 60 European projects and coordinates 38 of them.
Unistra is the initiator and co-founder of the French Standing Conference of Gender Officers for Equality and
Diversity in Higher Education and Research (CPED), chairing it from its creation in 2011 to 2016. This national
network is a place of exchange of practices, ideas and information for universities gender political actions.
Unistra is an actively member of the LERU’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policy group and of the EPI-
CUR’s EDI working group , which recently published the policy paper “Women, universities and research: excellence
without gender biais”.
Unistra participates in gender expert workshops, such as the H2020 EFFORTI (Evaluation Framework for Promoting
Gender Equality in R&I) project, or the European study on national gender policy in education systems
conducted by EIGE (European Institut for Gender Equality) and participated in genderSTE COST workshops.
Contact: epicur@unistra.fr
Website: http://www.unistra.fr
Social media:
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/unistra
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/unistra
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unistraofficiel/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/unistraofficielle
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