​​Commitment: Equity & inclusion

The Equity@Ecsite workgroup organised a webinar for Ecsite Online called ‘Equity and Diversity: an inclusive response to the corona crisis.’ At the end of the webinar all participants were invited to create a Community of Practice, CoP. Since May 2020, the CoP has held these meetings, gathering around 25 participants every two months, where members have learned together. The CoP has become a system of support to improve the practices in DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion) among its participants and the field.

We are proposing a session as a regular CoP meeting, an open invitation to the whole community of Ecsite, with the purpose of inspiring our colleagues in this work, and to increase the number of members and advocates for diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. At the end, our hope is to broaden the impact among our field towards social justice.