Award ceremony Chalmers Equality Award 2022

Chalmers Equality Award is an annual prize that is awarded to one or several employees or students as a recognition of excellence in promoting equality and diversity at Chalmers.

Programme

• Presentation of the award
• Gunilla Resare, granddaughter of Vera Sandberg, gives a historical perspective on gender equality at Chalmers
• Award ceremony
• Mingle

The host of the award ceremony is Charlotte Wiberg, Acting President/Deputy CEO.
The President of the Student Union, Isac Stark, participates, and also representatives of the network Wise, Workforce for Inclusive Science.

Awardees:

Julia Stevrell: a master’s student that has worked actively in equality issues since she started at Chalmers. She has been the chair of JämK, Chalmers' equality committee, diversity manager within the KfKb section's equality committee and participated in pride parades, the science festival and held homework-support.

Ana Bove, Ahmed Ali-Eldin Hassan and Francisco Gomes, researchers at Computer Science and Engineering, for their great work with Girls' Code Club, GCC, a coding bootcamp that encourages young women to explore their interests in programming by offering them hands-on experience at Chalmers.

Christine Geers, researcher at Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, demonstrates by her acting that what we do at Chalmers is accessible to all who seek it, irrespective of gender. As scientist, supervisor, lecturer, in contact with industry, working with the technicians, as union representative and as colleague with an open office door, Christine is a role model.