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Equal Opportunities Award 2025

To draw attention to Mid Sweden University's work with equal opportunities, employees are invited to propose candidate(s) for Mid Sweden University's equal opportunities prize for 2025. Equal opportunities is about counteracting discrimination, but also promoting equal opportunities*. The purpose of the Equal Opportunities Award is to highlight good examples within Mid Sweden University to stimulate initiatives that in the long term contribute to equal opportunities. The award is given to person(s) who have carried out initiatives that have positively promoted equal opportunities work within Mid Sweden University.

You can either suggest staff, student, group, or a subject, department or division at Mid Sweden University or apply yourself. The prize money is SEK 10,000**.

Proposals with justification must be submitted in writing to the coordinator for gender equality and equal opportunities (lasse.reinikainen@miun.se), no later than 18 May. The prize will be awarded at the Equal Opportunities Day on 7 October in Sundsvall.

* Equal opportunities refers to work based on the Discrimination Act in terms of gender, gender identity or gender expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age. https://www.miun.se/likavillkor/

** The prize money is to be used for the promotion of equal opportunities issues and is used for this purpose by the unit in which the prize winner(s) operate.

Equal opportunities anniversary award

To draw attention to Mid Sweden University's anniversary year and our long-term work with equal opportunities, employees and students are invited to propose candidate(s) for Mid Sweden University's Anniversary Award regarding equal opportunities for 2025. Equal opportunities is about counteracting discrimination, but also promoting equal opportunities*. The purpose of the Equal Opportunities Anniversary Award is to highlight a person or persons who in some way have carried out initiatives that have promoted equal opportunities work within Mid Sweden University.

What distinguishes the anniversary prize from the regular prize is that it can also go to someone who is no longer active at Mid Sweden University. It can be someone who has changed workplaces, who has retired or an external party (person or organisation) who has done something special to promote equal opportunities work at the university

You can nominate staff, students, groups, or a subject, department or division at Mid Sweden University or apply yourself. Proposals with justification must be submitted in writing to the Coordinator for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities (lasse.reinikainen@miun.se), no later than 18 May. The jury is the Council for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities. The prize will be awarded at the Equal Opportunities Day on 7 October in Sundsvall.

* Equal opportunities refers to work based on the Discrimination Act in terms of gender, gender identity or gender expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age. 

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