EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the national and transnational partners for the fruitful collaboration
over the past two years. The project researchers of the national partnership worked
very hard to deliver a useful, practical and innovative guide with many tips to help
introduce equal opportunities at all levels at universities. Although the road was tough
and many bureaucratic challenges were to be faced, all universities managed to create
a positive change climate.
The meetings with the transnational partners on the other hand delivered many useful
insights in the problem areas and good practices in other European countries; these
insights were incorporated in the Equality Guide. Working with our transnational partners
was very inspiring, and the Flemish delegation was always very warmly welcomed
in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands.
Special thanks to Akke Visser and Annelies van der Horst for organizing the transnational
end-event WISER in Maastricht 8 , which was extremely successful. Also special
thanks to Luis Ballester for coordinating the transnational collaboration and to Pedro
Albertos for taking care of the transnational website.
We would like to thank the Department of Economics, Science and Innovation (EWI) of
the Flemish Government, and especially our contact Karen Haegemans, for funding
the publication of the Dutch version of the Equality Guide.
Special thanks to Daniëlle Gilliot and Anne-Marie De Jonghe of the VLIR for their
practical support.
Deserving a special mention are the many people who cooperated actively in the different
modules: the respondents of the surveys of the VUB, the UGent and the K.U.Leuven,
the members of the Diversity Forum of the VUB, the researchers at European
University College Brussels EHSAL, the Mainstreaming Promoters of the K.U.Leuven,
the Research Coordination Office of the K.U.Leuven, the trainees of the training on
Scientific Communication of the UA, the people who participated in the focus group
sessions of the UA, the lecturers, the mentees and mentors who took part in the
mentoring programme of the UHasselt, the steering committee at the UHasselt, the
employees of the Personnel Departments and Student Services of the different universities
who provided the project researchers with the necessary data and figures, the
managers and policy makers who lent their cooperation, and many others.
We would like to thank the Chancellors of the participating universities, Prof. Dr. Van
Camp (VUB), Prof. Dr. Vervenne (K.U.Leuven), Prof. Dr. De Schepper (UHasselt),
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Women in Science, Education and Research: www.wiserineurope.eu.