Total E-Quality Award
After successfully reapplying, the UFZ was awarded the Total E-Quality rating for another three years in 2025.
With the award the
Total E-Quality Association
certifies once again in 2025 that equal opportunities and diversity are increasingly anchored and practiced at the UFZ through fundamental attitudes, strategies, measures and their monitoring.
At the UFZ, it is part of our self-image to offer all employees equal opportunities for development and a workplace free of discrimination. This requires the systematic implementation of action plans, the setting of ambitious targets for women's quotas in leadership positions (intranet page cascade targets) and comprehensive monitoring to highlight successes and areas where action is needed.
The UFZ first recieved the award in 2022, and in 2025, following a successful reapplication, it was awarded for a further three years.
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"The focus of activities in recent years has been the conception of a comprehensive action plan for gender equality as well as the conception of an action plan for the inclusion of people with disabilities at the UFZ. [...]
Explicitly worth mentioning is the Key Indicator Report, which for the first time summarizes the most important indicators on diversity at the UFZ in one report and thus forms the basis for comprehensive diversity monitoring and the derivation of specific and more targeted measures. The monitoring process can be considered exemplary for the Helmholtz Association and beyond." (translated by UFZ)