EURO (the Society) recognises that providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion are vital to the success of the Society.
The Society is committed to creating an inclusive culture that supports equality and diversity and fully reflects both its membership and the global Operational Research community. The Society seeks to actively encourage all practices that reflect a diverse society.
To address this, the Society will ensure that gender equality is appropriately embedded and prioritised across the Society's structure and activities. We will ensure that equality is embedded in all our activities, policies and decisions and will work with national societies, EURO Working Groups and the wider EURO community to share good practice. Key to this is our commitment to implementing a programme of activity to progress our equality aims and objectives.
The Society is committed to fulfil the goal of Gender Equality similar to that promoted by the European Research Council (https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/ERC_ScC_Gender_Equality_Plan_2014-2020.pdf)
The Society will take active steps to fulfil these responsibilities and promote good practice by:
The overall guiding principle for the strategy is creating an environment where everyone is encouraged, supported, welcomed and has an equal chance to participate and excel in EURO activities.
The EDI goals apply to all EURO activities, including committees, nominations, funded activities and publications as specified in the following:
This Policy will be implemented through the EURO's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. Progress against actions and objectives will also be reported in the EURO Executive Committee.
EURO will assess the impact of this Policy by monitoring as follows:
Version 1 approved by EC Feb 2021
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