Apply funding for your diversity and inclusivity initiative
The School of Electrical Engineering is funding projects that foster and encourage diversity, inclusivity and equality
Activities
Get involved with the ELEC EDI community and events to have an impact on equality, diversity and inclusion.
Upcoming EDI events at ELEC
Featured activities
Apply funding for your diversity and inclusivity initiative
The School of Electrical Engineering is funding projects that foster and encourage diversity, inclusivity and equality
Women's Lunch
With these events, the School of Electrical Engineering promotes changing the gender balance in technical fields.
Kaleidoscope Cinema
ELEC EDI group is organising together with the SCI EDI group EDI themed film and discussion evenings Spring 2024. Follow ELEC newsletter Sähköisku, departments' newsletters and ELEC EDI pages for more information.
Read more here about Kaleidoscope Cinema
Past activities
Here you can find selected actions from previous ELEC EDI Action plans.
- Establishing ELEC EDI Group as successor of ELEC EQU task force with broader representation of the academic staff and the departments.
- Introducing unisex toilets to all buildings managed by the School.
- Creating ELEC Handbook on promoting gender diversity in recruitment, which later was adopted in whole Aalto with a broader scope as Handbook on quality and diversity on recruitment.
- Dean's coffee event March 2021: Letters of recommendations from the EDI perspective
- Introducing ombudspersons for doctoral students.
- EDI themed events at the departments: unconscius bias in academia.
- Dean's coffee event May 2022: Towards a barrier-free community - understanding disabilities
- Deciding on actions after EDI related recommendations by the Scientific Advisory Board.
- Launching Women's Lunch for doctoral students. In 2023 we broaden the concept to include also gender minorities.
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ELEC Professors’ lunch: EDI aspects on international recruiting
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ELEC Dean's coffee in April: best practices on parental leaves, organised together with SCI
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ELEC Teachers' coffee event in March: EDI in teaching
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Kaleidoscope Cinema started with SCI
Albert EinsteinWe must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
Upcoming EDI events at Aalto
Puhutaan suomea - Learning Finnish together!
Welcome to learn and practice your Finnish skills!
Puhutaan suomea - Learning Finnish together!
Welcome to learn and practice your Finnish skills!
Invisible Walls at Work: Understanding and Preventing Workplace Ostracism - Making Waves 6/11/2025
What happens when employees are quietly ignored, excluded, or left out of communication loops? Workplace ostracism can affect well-being, teamwork, and trust. In this session, Dr. Sirpa Manninen, expert on workplace ostracism and social dynamics in organizations, will explain how subtle exclusionary behaviors emerge, what consequences they have for employees and teams, and how organizations can build more inclusive and psychologically safe environments.