New Alpine Seminar on equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity

Starting in the 2025–2026 academic year, the optional interfaculty course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Diversity”, coordinated by USI’s Equal Opportunities Service, has been reformulated in the format of Alpine Seminars offered by the Casa della sostenibilità (House of Sustainability). This new format offers an immersive learning experience that integrates the interdisciplinary study of equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity with a natural context focused on sustainability.

In the spring semester, from 15 to 17 April, the second Alpine Seminar of the academic year will be held, dedicated to the theme of equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity. Through experiential activities, group work and guided discussions, participants will be invited to recognise and overcome stereotypes, prejudices and inequalities, promoting more aware and welcoming social and educational environments.

The course will be taught by Luca Visconti, Full Professor in the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Danuscia Tschudi Von Kaenel, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competence in Work, Welfare and Society (DEASS), and Brita Kleindienst, actress and Director of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri.

The interfaculty perspective of the students will encourage the meeting of different disciplinary backgrounds, creating a particularly rich space for learning and dialogue, in which the plurality of experiences, sensibilities and points of view represents a fundamental added value.