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Equal opportunities

The university's activities must safeguard democracy, legality, objectivity, free opinion formation, respect for everyone's equal value, efficiency, service, as well as democratic principles, human freedoms, and rights.

Hands meeting on a table top. Photo.

To be able to develop a strong and free academic community we have to show respect for one another and benefit from our differences from one another.

The Faculty of Medicine is to be gender equal with zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and victimisation. 

What the Faculty does

The remit of the Faculty’s Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities Committee (GEEO) is to achieve the objectives described above by: implementing the University’s and the Faculty’s governing documents regarding gender equality and equal treatment; to spread knowledge about gender equality and equal treatment; to provide information about the work being done by the Faculty; to propose and initiate various measures; and to coordinate the following up of results.

Current activities

The Faculty’s action plan for work on the work environment, gender equality and equal treatment, 2023-2025 “Together for a sustainable work environment” contains the following strategic objectives that the working group will work in 2023 to put into practice:

  • Define clear objectives for knowledge levels in the work environment, gender equality and equal treatment. We will draw up, define and clarify the objectives in a document. We will spread information about the objectives in Faculty activities by offering tools for how to build a good culture in a work group.
     
  • Increase awareness of the positive effects of diversity. We will ensure that knowledge is spread through various courses and offer the opportunity for proactive work by, for instance, looking at the advantages of diversity. 
     
  • Produce simple tools for communication and clarify this support. We will make it easier for managers and staff members to communicate in questions concerning the work environment, gender equality and equal treatment, and especially victimisation, through the implementation and development of checklists.

Action plan - “Together for a sustainable work environment” (in Swedish, LU-box)

Activities completed in 2023-2024

Contact

Eva Nilsson
Coordinator of systematic preventive work against discrimination and administrative support
eva_a [dot] nilsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se