Respect for diversity: TU Graz diversity awards

By Wiedner - Graz University of Technology has awarded five "Mind the Gap" awards for gender and diversity to employees and students who have placed human diversity at the centre of research or teaching contexts. In their academic work or when dealing with contact groups at the university, they have intentionally taken aspects such as age, gender or disability into account and were presented with awards for gender and diversity at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). Elma Sadaj, Robert Gaugl, Sadegh Arefnezhad, Sascha Rossmann and the team "GenIAL" recently accepted "Mind the Gap" prizes of 1,000 euros each. The Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity had announced the diversity awards on the occasion of International Women's Day in order to support the debate on diversity in the technical and scientific environment. Mind the Gap: Prizewinners 2019. Elma Sadaj - student of Production Science and Management (master's). Sadaj developed a learning factory for logistics services which included participants of different ages and sexes in a participatory way.