Education, awareness and communication activities
Learning activities
Training seminar cycle “Change, Relationships and Resilience”
Dates and Supervisors: 10 May (Rita Chiesa), 31 May (Elvis Mazzoni), 28 June (Cristian Balducci)
No. Unibo participants: 367
Profile: managers (0.3%), TA personnel: EP (5.2%), D (37.3%), C (48%), B (4.6%), teachers: full professors (1.1%), researchers (2.2%), other (1.3%)
Gender: women (79%), men (21%)
Affiliation: General Administration (66.8%), departments (33.2%)
Place of attendance: Bologna (68%); Cesena (3%), Forlì (8%), Ozzano dell’Emilia (7%), Ravenna (8%), Rimini (6%)
No. external participants: 42 (79% women)
CUG members of the following administrations: Equality Advisor for the Province of Forlì-Cesena; Emilia Romagna Region; ARPAE ER; ER-GO; Council of Bologna; Council of Cesena; Council of Ravenna; Council of Rimini; City of Bologna; Province of Forlì-Cesena; Province of Ravenna; Province of Rimini
Satisfaction
Results of the questionnaire submitted to internal Unibo personnel:
- Response rate: 41% (89% TA personnel, 3% teachers, 8% N/A)
- Results: the seminars met expectations (98%), increased knowledge of the topics covered (100%), and their content will be used in future work activities (90%).
Results of the questionnaire submitted to participants external to Unibo:
- Response rate: 36%
- Results: the seminars met expectations (100%), increased knowledge of the topics covered (100%), and their content will be used in future work activities (93%).
Training seminar “Mobbing: Resources to prevent it and services offered by the University”
Dates and Supervisors: 7 November (Marco Depolo)
No. participants: 269 (1.5% external)
Gender: 81% women, 19% men
Profile of Unibo participants: managers (0.4%), TA and CEL personnel (95.9%), teachers and research fellows (3%), not indicated (0.7%)
Place of attendance: Bologna (75%); Cesena (3%), Forlì (5%), Ozzano dell’Emilia (3%), Ravenna (5%), Rimini (2%), Distal (7%)
CUG members of the following administrations: Romagna local health authority (AUSL), ER-GO, Municipality of Cesena.
Communication activities
“#RI#VOL#UAZIONE seminar – Equal opportunities in order to build the future: the actions of the University of Bologna as a lever of change”
Organised in collaboration with the PLOTINA project and the Alma Gender IRT
Download event brochure [.pdf]
Date and location: 8 March, room M - Belmeloro Complex, Bologna
No. participants: 34 (of which 21% external)
Gender: 94% women, 6% men
Profile: managers (3%), TA personnel (23%), teachers and research fellows (38%), students (6%), external participants/citizens (21%), other/not indicated (9%).
Public seminar “Gender Equality Report and actions for equal opportunities in the universities of Emilia Romagna”
Organised in collaboration with the CUGs of UniFe, UniMore, UniPharma and the Emilia Romagna Regional Council Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
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Date and location: 22 November, Regione Emilia-Romagna – Sala Guido Fanti, viale Aldo Moro no. 50, Bologna
No. participants: 21
Gender: 95% women, 5% men
Participants from: Unibo (teachers and TAs); Unimore, Council of Bologna, Emilia Romagna Region CUG, ERGO, Journalists, Progetto Donna, Emilia Romagna Region, Reno Area Service, UOC, Work Wide Woman, Sant’Orsola Hospital
Public seminar “Representation of gender violence”
Organised in collaboration with the Vice Rector for Human Resources, the University's Equal Opportunities Delegate and the Alma Gender IRT.
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Date and location: 25 November, Accademia delle Scienze – Sala Ulisse, Via Zamboni no. 31, Bologna
No. participants: 47 (38% external)
Gender: 85% women, 15% men
Profile: TA personnel (17%), teachers and research fellows (13%), research fellows and PhD students (11%), students (13%), other/not indicated (8%), external (38%)
Participants from: Unibo, Bologna AUSL, Council of Bologna, ER-GO, AIAS Bologna, Associazione Armonie, FBC.
Presentation of the positive actions taken by the CUG in 2018 - 2019
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Date and location: 17 December, Sala VIII Centenario, Rectorate, Via Zamboni 33, Bologna
No. participants: 41 (12% external)
Gender: 95% women, 5% men
Profile: managers (3%), TA personnel (46%), teachers and research fellows (22%), external (12%), other/not indicated (17%)
Participants from: ER.GO, Council of Bologna, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute CUG, other.
Continuous updating of the section of the University website dedicated to CUG
Total page views* 14,433.
Individual page views* 11,453.
* Data collected through Web Analytics software used by the University Web Portal Unit: Google Analytics and Google Urchin 7, in the period of observation corresponding to the 2019 calendar year.
Online publication with open access of the documents on the learning cycles organised by the CUG
- Regardless of gender: equal opportunities, empowerment and diversity. Learning cycle documents by the Unified Committee for Equal Opportunities - CUG of the University of Bologna 2016-2017
Learning cycle documents
ISBN 978-88-6923-4033
© 2019 Bononia University Press - Mobbing: understanding and prevention. Learning cycle documents by the Guarantee Committee (CUG) of the University of Bologna January - September 2015
Learning cycle documents
ISBN 978-88-6923-184-1
© 2016 Bononia University Press
Raising awareness
Creation of the “Red Bench against domestic violence” at the Rectory of the Alma Mater
Scarica la locandina dell'evento [.pdf]
The Alma Mater CUG, in agreement with the Rector and the Vice Rector for Human Resources, has overseen the creation of a red bench situated in the Cortile del Pozzo of Palazzo Poggi at the Rectorate in Via Zamboni, 33. The idea for the red bench came from the proposal submitted to the Committee by a TA colleague and benefited from the involvement of Professor Giovanna Cosenza of the Department of Philosophy and Communication as well as the work carried out free of charge by the artists Benedetta Landolo.
The CUG also organised the ceremony to inaugurate the Red Bench at the Rectorate.
Date and location: 27 November, Palazzo Poggi, Cortile del Pozzo, Via Zamboni n. 33, Bologna.
No. participants: 98 (8% external)
Gender: 78% women, 19% men, 3% not indicated
Profile: teachers and research fellows (10%), managers (2%), TA personnel (34%), Unibo and Unife students (35%), external participants (8%), other/not indicated (11%).
Participants from: Unibo; Emilia Romagna Region, Council of Bologna, FAM, RAI TGR, ABAB, ABAB, UniFE, other (world of associations and citizenship).
Research grants and awards for cultural initiatives related to the functions with which the CUG is concerned
Call for applications for the award of 2 research grants aimed at graduates of second-cycle degrees in the academic year 2017/2018 with dissertations on the topics of “Equal opportunities, occupational well-being and combating discrimination”
Total candidates: 71
Gender: women (86%), men (14%)
Schools of origin (of the 48 complete applications): Law (12%), Economics, Management and Statistics (17%), Literature and Cultural Heritage (19%), Languages, Literature, Translation and Interpreting (4%), Medicine (2%), Psychology and Educational Science (29%), Political Science (17%).
Call for applications for the award of 2 grants to cover enrolment and mission costs in order to participate in the Summer School “Fragile Democracies. Populism, Racism, Anti-Feminism” organised by the Italian Historic Society (SIS) - Ed. 2019
Total candidates: 12
Gender: 92% women, 8% men
Origin: 67% - general administration areas (AUTC, SSRD, APOS, ARTEC, ABIS), 33% departments (DSE, DIN, DISCI, EDU)
Contract category: EP (8%), D (33%), C (59%).
Measures to promote and protect equal opportunities and measures to promote internal and external networking
Collection and analysis of gender-disaggregated data and annual publication of the Gender Equality Report
Promotion of and participation in the team that prepared the University of Bologna's Gender Equality Report 2019.
Italian version of the Gender Equality Report
English version of the Gender Equality Report
Collaboration on the implementation of the University's Gender Equality Plan 2017/2020 and periodic checks on its progress.
Collaboration on devising and implementing the measures contained in the Gender Equality Plan, more specifically:
Poster "I will take care of you: parental leave for all parents" [.pdf]
No. downloads* 101.
* Data collected through Web Analytics software used by the University Web Portal Unit: Google Analytics and Google Urchin 7, in the period of observation corresponding to the 2019 calendar year.
Implementation of actions aimed at promoting the effective adoption of a language that respects but does not negate gender differences.
Participation in the Technical-Scientific Committee tasked with preparing guidelines on the University's gender language, established under the supervision of the Vice-Rector for Human Resources.
During 2019, the Committee drafted guidelines with a view to raising awareness in the University on the daily use of a language that takes into account gender differences in institutional documents and the forms produced by the General Administration Areas, as well as in University communications, which will be distributed at the beginning of 2020.
Participation in national teams, networking initiatives and the exchange of good practices on CUG matters
- Exchange of good practices with the CUGs of the: City of Bologna, Council of Bologna, Province of Forlì and Cesena, AUSLs of Bologna and Romagna, CUG of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, CUG of the Sant’Orsola University Public Hospital, CUG of ER.GO - Bologna.
- Exchange of good practices with the Superintendent of Inclusão, Políticas Afirmativas e Diversidade (SIPAD), Universidade Federal do Paraná.
- Participation as a partner in formulating the Project “Giving back time to families” presented in its capacity as Coordinator for the Province of Forlì-Cesena and funded following the competitive selection procedure (in which it was ranked in third place) issued by the Emilia-Romagna Region which called for the submission of projects aimed at supporting an equal presence of women in the workforce, encouraging access to work and careers and promoting welfare projects aimed at work-life balance and improving quality of life.
- Continued collaboration with the University's Alma Gender IRT and the non-profit Women's Refuge in Bologna. Activation of new channels for discussion and synergy with the CUGs of other universities and public bodies as well as with the Emilia Romagna Regional Council Commission for Equality and Human Rights with a view to promoting initiatives related to the functions pertinent to the Committee.
- Continued participation in the Gender equality report team established by the Group of Delegates on gender-related topics of the CRUI which, in 2019, published the “Guidelines for Gender Equality in Italian Universities”, CRUI Foundation 2019.
Measures to promote occupational well-being and maintenance of the work-life balance
Promotion and publication of informative material aimed at raising awareness among Unibo personnel of the existing services.
Update in 2019 to the brochure created by the CUG “The network of services for people working at the University of Bologna”
The brochure indicates the main figures, services and offices at the University, along with the relative contact details, that primarily provide services to personnel.
Presentations aimed at personnel to awareness of the available services and the persons and structures mandated principally to promote equal opportunities, occupational well-being and work-life balance.
- Participation in the training session for newly appointed staff organised by APOS in 2019 which outlines the functions of the CUG and provides a brochure prepared by the Committee on “The network of services for people working at the University of Bologna”.
Date: 14/02/2019
No. registered participants: around 25
Profile: Newly appointed TA personnel
- Presentation of the version updated in 2019 of the brochure “The network of services for people working at the University of Bologna” at the training seminar organised by the CUG "Mobbing: Resources to prevent it and services offered by the University” held on 7 November 2019 at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage in Via Zamboni 38, Bologna and also remotely via video conference at the Romagna and Ozzano dell’Emilia sites and the Distal department.
Collaboration on the surveys conducted by the University of its personnel
Participation in the Working group tasked with analysing matters associated with the risk of work-related stress, established under the supervision of the Vice-Rector for Human Resources, which in December 2019 officially commenced a survey of its personnel by sending out a questionnaire to teachers and inviting TA staff members picked at random to participate in focus groups.
Annual award for sociocultural initiatives aimed at promoting occupational well-being
The CUG promoted the Notice issued by APOS directed at the PTA, CEL and fixed term foreign language assistants of the University for the presentation of project proposals aimed at promoting occupational well-being (Ed. 2018 - published by APOS on 15/01/2019).
No. candidate projects: 19 (of which 53% proposed by individuals; 47% by groups)
Topics addressed: occupational well-being (37%); physical exercise and a healthy diet (27%); cooperation/belonging/community/culture (21%), combating discrimination (5%); work-life balance (5%); sustainable mobility (5%).
Total personnel involved (individually or as part of a group): 33 (82% women)
Areas of origin of the personnel: 74% - General Administration (ABIS; ACRR; ARTEC; SSRD; CESIA; AUTC; AFORM), 26% - departments (EDU, MAT, DISTAL, SPS, DSE).
Contract category of the personnel involved (composition of proposing groups): EP (9%), D (39%), C (52%).
No. voters in the online voting phase of the projects: 763 TA, CEL and language assistant staff members who cast 1550 votes overall (with each voter able to able to express up to a maximum of 3 preferences).
Creation of the video “Occupational well-being: 7 exercised to do in the office”
The project proposed by a University TA colleague "MiMuovo alla scrivania…e Respiro!” (I move at my desk...and I breathe!) was the winner of the Notice “Propose and vote for a good idea for the work environment in Unibo” (APOS, Protocol 4792 of 15/01/2019). The CUG created a video tutorial of exercises aimed at promoting the health and well-being of University personnel that carry out mainly sedentary and computer-based activities. The video shows the correct posture to be adopted and exercises to keep the osteoarticular and muscular system healthy and to encourage a state of relaxation.
Watch the video “Occupational well-being: 7 exercised to do in the office”
Promotion of dialogue and the exchange of ideas related to the topic of work-life balance
The CUG has encouraged dialogue and the exchange of ideas with the University figures and structures that are working towards equal opportunities, occupational well-being and work-life balance.