Pilot project at Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science is applying for the international Athena Swan label as part of a sub-project of the UZH PgB project EDIxUZH. It is the first faculty in Switzerland to do so, and the move is being watched with interest well beyond UZH. Since Switzerland does not officially participate in the program, the Faculty of Science cannot receive a regular Athena Swan award, but it may be granted an equivalent distinction instead.
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Since February, representatives from the Faculty of Science’s 14 institutes have been attending the first workshops with Athena Swan experts. The questions they are working through are basic but crucial: where does a unit currently stand in the equality process, where does it want to go, and how will it get there? Each unit has set up a self-assessment team for this purpose. In the workshops, the teams are given tools to analyze their current situation – from organizational culture to the causes of a leaky pipeline.
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