Sustainable Diversity – BOKU Diversity Strategy
Photo Gallery Diversity Day in Tulln 2024
Diversity Award for research 2024
![© Christoph Gruber Preisträger*innen der Diversitätspreise Forschung 2024, Rektorin, Mitglieder der Jury, Team der Koordinationsstelle](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/6/csm_20240605_BOKU_Diversity_Day_web-178_354661e0a1.jpg)
In December 2023, BOKU announced the Diversity Award for Research for the first time. The award ceremony will take place at the first BOKU Diversity Day on June 5, 2024 in Tulln.
The establishment of the award is a measure of the diversity strategy that has been implemented at BOKU and is intended to radiate into all fields of action at our university - as in this case in the field of diversity and research.
You can find more information at the following link: https://short.boku.ac.at/diversityaward_research
Awareness Days
![(c) Annanym A drawn hand writes the German word Vielfalt, which means diversity](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/8/csm_Annanym_Vielfalt_83fb33a924.jpg)
BOKU Awareness Days – Competence building: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
As part of the annual Awareness Days, various formats such as workshops, panel discussions and networking spaces are offered for all BOKU members. This is an opportunity to exchange ideas, acquire knowledge and build up skills and competences in the areas of equity, diversity, anti-discrimination and social participation as well as disability/chronic illness and inclusion.
The detailed program for November 2024 will be announced on the website of the Coordination Office.
A look back over the last few years reveals the broad spectrum of the diverse range of services on offer. You can find more information (in German) at the following link: https://short.boku.ac.at/diversitaetsstrategie (Section Awareness Days)
Minerva Awards 2024
![Maciej Palucki nimmt die Urkunde für die BOKU entgegen](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/1/csm_Minerva_Awards_2024_Maciej_Palucki_Credit_PhilippLipiarski_d53916e7aa.jpg)
Minerva Awards - BOKU's diversity strategy makes it onto the shortlist
Around 100 organizations and companies submitted entries for the WEconomy "Diversity Leaders Challenge". The best were honored at the Minerva Awards on April 28, 2024 at the Radiokulturhaus.
Success for BOKU's diversity strategy! Sustainable Diversity, the name of the participatory and sustainable diversity strategy of the Coordination Office for Equality, Diversity and Disability, has made it onto the shortlist of the 30 best and most innovative companies in the field of diversity in the "Diversity Leaders Challenge". The three winners - Wiener Stadtwerke Group, Manz Verlag and ÖBB Holding - were honored at the Minerva Awards on April 28, 2024 at the Radiokulturhaus.
BOKU's participatory, transparent and sustainable diversity strategy combines the future topics of diversity, inclusion and social sustainability. Maciej Palucki, Ela Posch and Ruth Scheiber-Herzog are responsible for the strategy and its operational implementation.
Kick-off steering group June 2023
![© Christoph Gruber Steuerungsgruppe Diversitätsstrategie: Franz Fehr, Margarita Calderón-Peter, Doris Damyanovic, Nina Mathies, Eva Schulev-Steindl, Maciej Palucki, Stefanie Lemke, Caroline Hammer(v.l.n.r.)](/fileadmin/_processed_/7/2/csm_Steuerungsgruppe_DSB_01JUN2023_c_Christoph_Gruber_bb75646295.jpg)
Steering group Diversity strategy
BOKU's diversity strategy has set itself core objectives such as equality & anti-discrimination, accessibility & inclusion, compatibility, intergenerational equity, social inclusion and ethnic diversity, as well as meta-objectives such as transparency through communication. The aim is to share the steps and procedures within the strategy with as many BOKU members as possible:
On June 1, the Diversity Strategy Steering Group was launched in the Gregor Mendel House. It was set up by Rector Eva Schulev-Steindl and is moderated by Maciej Palucki.
The steering group will meet twice a year in order to network the various fields of action in the sense of a holistic approach, to stimulate new ideas, to recognize problems, to pick up on moods in their areas and to support and promote the agendas in the field of diversity at BOKU internally.
Status Quo March 2023
With its commitment to implementing a diversity strategy, BOKU has set itself the goal of making the university more equal opportunity, more inclusive and more diverse. After the first participatory milestone of the process - the kick-off event of the strategy in the context of the "Werte im Wandel" days in November 2022, the Coordination Office for Gender Equality, Diversity and Accessibility (Ko-Stelle) continues to work intensively with the client of the strategy, the university management. Meetings with BOKU members and stakeholders take place on an ongoing basis in order to be able to implement and realize diversity jointly and effectively. In total, about 100 measures have been identified so far in this participatory process, which are now being reviewed in terms of feasibility, financial viability and effectiveness in exchange with the rectorate and will be elaborated in detail in the future. The first measures within the framework of the diversity strategy will be implemented before the end of 2023 and will be visible at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.
Kick-off Diversity Strategy 2022
![© Helene Steiner Vor dem Hintergrund des Ilse-Wallentin-Hauses hält eine Person das Schild mit der Aufschrift "Raum für Vielfalt" in die Kamera.](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/8/csm_Raum_fuer_Vielfalt_Polaroid_web_31f8632ffa.jpg)
Vor dem Hintergrund des Ilse-Wallentin-Hauses hält eine Person das Schild mit der Aufschrift "Raum für Vielfalt" in die Kamera.
How should diversity be lived and experienced at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in the future?
At the kick-off of the BOKU Diversity Strategy (DSB) on November 16 from 13:00 to 17:00 this important question will be answered in a participatory way. All BOKU members are cordially invited to participate and to jointly contribute ideas and recommendations for action at the kick-off. They will be accompanied by BOKU internal and external experts in the fields of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Welcome Rector LL.M. Univ.Prof. Mag. Dr.iur. Eva Schulev-Steindl
Keynote Dr.in Roswitha Hofmann
World Café Within the framework of a World Café format, topic tables on the individual fields of action will be available: Diversity and University Management, Diversity and Studies, Diversity and Teaching, Diversity and Research, Diversity and International Affairs, Diversity and Human Resources, Open Topic Table Diversity and (...). Along guiding questions, important impulses for BOKU can be discussed and ideas for measures can be contributed.
Moderation Gabriele Bargehr, DSA.in, MSc
Exchange and Networking After the content-related exchange, there will be time for further exchange over snacks and DJ sounds.