Equality and Diversity

The Equality and Diversity working group of the IDEA League examines the different approaches taken to foster equality in the IDEA League partner universities. By learning from each other and sharing best practice, the group promotes excellence within the IDEA League.

In 2006 the Equality and Diversity group received an EU grant of 500.000€ for the project TANDEMplusIDEA, a development scheme for female scientists that started in April 2007. The programme runs for three years and involves the development, implementation and evaluation of an international mentoring programme for 16 female scientists of the IDEA League partner universities, as well as there organisation of an international conference. TANDEMplusIDEA aims to increase the number of female professors in natural science and engineering. Furthermore the impact of the programme will be analysed in order to enhance the understanding of research on the gender dimension.

TANDEMplusIDEA is the first international mentoring programme for female scientists in Europe and is the first EU-funded project of the IDEA League.

The members of the group are:

• Imperial College
  Kim Everitt, Deputy Director of Human Resources
  
  
• TU Delft
  A.M. Buteijn-Blokland, Directie Personeel en Organisatie
  
  
• ETH
  Carla Zingg, Office of Equal Opportunities for Women and Men
  
  
• RWTH Aachen
  Marlies Diepelt, Equal Opportunity Commissioner
  
  Carmen Leicht-Scholten, Head of Integration Team - Human Resources, Gender and Diversity Management, Chair of Project TANDEMplusIDEA
  
  Elke Breuer - Project Coordinator TANDEMplusIDEA
  
  
• ParisTech
  Dr. Minh-Hà Pham-Delègue, Deputy Director for International Relations

Publications:

• Identifying good practices concerning equality - pdf 30 kb

• Gender statistics in the IDEA League - pdf 208 kb