Events on equal opportunities

Events organized the Equal Opportunities Service - academic year 2023-2024

Psychological well-being in the workplace
October 2023 - May 2024, USI Lugano
Awareness-raising and training activities to promote the physical, social and psychological well-being of USI administrative staff, organized in collaboration with USI in ascolto.
For more information, see the program.

Women in Academia Support Lunch
Thursday 14 December 2023, 12.30-14.00, Room A11, West Campus, USI Lugano
​Registration by Monday, December 11 by writing to [email protected].
For more information see the program.

Inclusion and diversity in architectural academia and practice. A conversation talk with Dr. Torsten Lange and Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
Monday 4 December 2023, 12.00, Foyer, Palazzo Canavée, Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio.
Workshop open to all the academic USI members.
For more information see the program.

The psychological and social weight of gender stereotypes
Saturday, December 2, 2023, 9.00-16.00, at Aula Magna, West Campus Lugano
Event organized by USI in ascolto and the Equal Opportunity Service on the occasion of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
For more information see the program.

Ragazze e informatica! Giornata Nuovo futuro USI
Thursday 9 November 2023, 9.00-15.30, Biblio Agorà, East Campus, USI Lugano
Event organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Informatics and the Associazione Nuovo Futuro.
For more information see the program.

Creating an Interactive and Inclusive Lecture/Class Session in Economics
Friday 27 October 2023, 12.00-13.30 - Room 354, Main Building
Workshop open to all the academic USI members.
For more information see the program.

Psychological Manipulation and Mental Health
Saturday 14 October 2023, 9.30-16.00, Aula Magna, West Campus, USI Lugano
Event promoted by USI in ascolto and Equal Opportunities Service on the occasion of World Mental Health Day.
More information here.

"USI Senza Stereotipi". An exhibion organized by Equal Opportunities Service and Institutional Communication Service
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 13.00-18.00, Mercato coperto, Mendrisio, on the occasion of the event organized by the City of Mendrisio, "Che genere di violenza. Decostruire gli stereotipi: quale ruolo dell’educazione e della comunicazione?”.
Saturday, 14 October 2023, 9.00-16.00, Aula Magna, East Campus, USI Lugano, on the occasion of the event Psychological Manipulation and Mental Health.
​For more information contact [email protected].

Junior Camp USI-SUPSI 2023
Monday 21 - Friday 25 August 2023, 8.30-17.30, East Campus, USI Lugano
More information here.

Call for a scholarship for the Bachelor in Informatics 2023/2024
Open until Friday 14 July, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Mind the (gender) gap - Public event
Friday 16 June 2023, 17.00, Room A11, Campus West Lugano
More information here.

Public event "Conscientious about difference: Diversity in research methodologies and practice”
Wednesday 26 April 2023, 17.30-18.30, Online
Prof. Dr. Melissa Steyn, South African National Research Chair in Critical Diversity Studies.
More information here. The video recording of the public lecture is available on the following web page.

Serata informativa e di sensibilizzazione: La Violenza Sessuale
Thursday 20 April 2023, 20:00, Sala del Consiglio Comunale di Lugano
More information here.

Sexual Harassment Awareness Day
Thursday 23 March 2023, 9:30-15:00, West Campus, USI Lugano
More information here.

Safer Internet Day - proiezione del film "The Social dilemma"
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 17:30 - 19:00, Room Auditorium, West Campus, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science
27 February 2023
For more information see the web page.

Get to know each other with USI is Listening - Welcome Day USI
Thursday 22 September 2022, 17.30-18.30, West Campus, USI Lugano
For more information see the web page.

Academic year 2021-2022 and 2022-2023

Social Research Prize ceremony - Ciao Table
Thursday 2 December 2022, 19:00-20:00, Room Auditorium, West Campus, USI Lugano
For more information see the web page.

Call for the Shadowing Grant 2023
Open from Wednesday 14 December 2022 to Monday 23 January 2023, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Women in Academia Support Lunch
Wednesday 13 December 2022, 12.30-13:30, Room A23, Campus West, USI Lugano
​For more information contact [email protected].

Ragazze e informatica - Avanti! Giornata Nuovo futuro
Thursday 10 November 2022, 9.00-14.45, Room D1.15, East Campus, USI Lugano
Event organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Informatics and the Associazione Nuovo Futuro.

Junior Camp USI-SUPSI 2022
Monday 22 - Friday 26 August 2022, 8.30-17.30, East Campus, USI Lugano
Enrollment open from Monday 25 April 2022 to Friday 27 May 2022
For more information, see the web page.

Call for scholarship "Women and Informatics" 2022/2023
Open until Friday 15 July, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Call for the Award for scientific contributions on topics of equality and diversity
Open Monday 9 May 2022 to Friday 1 July 2022, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Violenza domestica e linguaggio
Activities within "Convergence and Distance", USI Cultural Project on Communication, Culture and Society
Monday 16 May 2022, 18.30, Auditorium West Campus, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

"Che genere di linguaggio? Evento pubblico sul linguaggio inclusivo"
Event promoted by the Commissione consultiva per le pari opportunità del Canton Ticino in collaboration with the Equal Opportunities Service of USI and the Servizio Gender e Diversity SUPSI
Tuesday 8 March 2022, 18.00, Room LA GRANDE, Centro professionale tecnico, Trevano
For more information, see the web page.

Noi Gender - the exhibition at USI
A project of the Percento culturale Migros, edited by Consultati, in collaboration with Imbarco Immediato and Gender Freedom
From Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Thursday 5 May 2022, West Campus park, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Women in Academia Support Lunch
Wednesday 15 December 2021, 12.15-13.30 via Microsoft Teams
​For more information contact [email protected].

Call for the Shadowing Grant 2022
Open from Wednesday 15 December 2021 to Monday 24 January 2022, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Ragazze e informatica - Avanti! Giornata Nuovo futuro
Thursday 11 November 2021, Room 402, USI Lugano
Event organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Informatics and the Associazione Nuovo Futuro, aimed at promoting the studies in Informatics among middle school female students in Ticino.

Body Swap: Empathic Virtual Reality Experience
Activities within "Convergence and Distance", USI Cultural Project on Communication, Culture and Society
Wednesday 20 October 2021, 17.30, Room C1.03, Level 1 Sector C East Campus, USI Lugano
For more information, see the web page.

Prize ceremony Emirza
Friday 1 October 2021, 18.00-19.00, Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
For more information see the web page.

Per i diritti delle donne: la vita, l'amore e le lotte di Iris e Peter von Roten
In the context of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage, an evening through the (re)discovery of two historical figures, still little known, of the Italian speaking part of Switzerland
Tuesday 14 September 2021, 18.00, Boschetto Parco Ciani, lido di Lugano
For more information, see the web page.