The tools presented at www.edi-toolkit.org have been developed based on lectures and handbooks provided by Karin Grasenick and the Deliverables developed for the Human Brain Project (HBP), in close collaboration with the Diversity and Equal Opportunities Committee (DEOC) of the HBP.
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is one of the FET Flagship projects of the European Commission. It started in 2013 and is one of the largest research projects in Europe for the study of the brain. In this public funded project, over 500 scientists and engineers from more than 140 universities, teaching hospitals, and research centers across Europe are currently participating mainly online. It is a complex, large-scale, international, publicly funded research project that will become an infrastructure (CoLIPRI).
Despite its complexity, the HBP has played a pioneering role in advancing gender equality by improving the number of women in leadership positions from 16% in September 2017 to 36% in January 2022 (the HBP has encouraged to provide information on gender identity and decided to report binary data only to protect the small number of respondents with non-binary identity). Based on the Gender Action Plan (GAP, which became under Horizon Europe the mandatory Gender Equality Plan or GEP) several guidelines have been developed.
- HBP Research Guideline and HBP Publication Guideline for early stage researchers
- HBP Recruiting Guideline for HBP Leaders and the HBP Leadership Checklist
- HBP Career Guideline and further material on career planning.