Are you planning an event?
If you are planning an event and would like to offer certain awareness options to the participants or make the event inclusive, we would be happy to support you in the planning and organisation.
At LUH, all kinds of people come together for workshops, meetings, conferences, other large events, lecture weeks, parties or celebrations. These events need a framework in which all people are treated respectfully and feel safe. As part of our protection against discrimination, we offer the following options and tips on how events can be organised and implemented safely and without discrimination.
Are you planning an event?
If you are planning an event and would like to offer certain awareness options to the participants or make the event inclusive, we would be happy to support you in the planning and organisation.
Have you experienced harassment or discrimination?
If you have been harassed or discriminated against at an event at Leibniz University Hannover or in teaching or at work, or if you have observed such behaviour, we will help and advise you.
Awarness means to be aware of and informed about certain issues of behavior. In general awarness focuses on a mindful and respectful dealing with each other. The main part of events concerning awarness is to offer safe spaces and contact persons in case of discrimination or unrespectful treatment. All members of LUH should follow the central guidelines: abusive and discriminatory behavior as well as not respecting personal boundaries is not tolerated.
Awarness is a concept which came out of the feminist and queer movements in 2007. The concept is intersectional and includes especially people who get multiple times affected by discrimination.
The main goals of awarness work and awarness concepts are:
Principles of awarness work are:
Events can be made safer through an awareness concept. At the same time awarness concepts strenghten the consciousness about not-respecting personal boundaries and unrespectful behavior.
It is useful to think about the following questions and points in advance of an event to guarantee a respectful atmosphere:
The goal is to create a safer space for all.
Important: The awarness concept should be published in time (preferably in different languages). It has to be visible for all people at the event and should also inform about the awarness team. Used can be sentences like "You can recognize our awarness team by wearing t-shirts with green inscription".
The job of the awarness team is to be aware of discriminatory treatments and to deal with situations that happend. It supports people who got affected by discrimination if they need help. The team observes the happening and the atmosphere of the event. At the same time it initiates preventive actions if necessary.
Therefore it contains:
Notice:
Ideally the members of the awarness team have learned how to act as awarness person so they can support and give advices directly. Untrained people can also be part of an awarness team as long as this is communicated to others. Teams of untrained members take care of the so called refferal advice: They are the first contact person for abuses but don't give advices by themself. They inform about advice centers and other offers of help.
1 FLINTA* means women, lesbian, inter, non-binary, trans and agender*. It is a description which tries to find an expression for people who identify as not cis male.
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