The primary objectives of the UCD Gender Equality EDI Accelerator Fund are to:
- Encourage innovative approaches to addressing gender inequality
- Facilitate gender equality initiatives and innovative solutions that respond to the challenges and barriers identified to achieving gender equality which emerged during School/College Athena SWAN submissions
- Encourage cross-school collaboration as a means to achieve University-wide transformation in gender equality and inclusion
- Support alignment with the UCD Gender Equality Action Plan 2020 – 2024 and EDI Strategy 2021 - 2024
- Facilitate the funding of broader EDI activities aligned to both the UCD EDI policy and strategy and gender equality action plans and the EDI dimension that is now included in the new Athena SWAN Ireland Charter launched in November 2021
- Support the achievement of future Athena SWAN applications :
- renewals
- silver
- gold level
These applications require schools/units to demonstrate
- progress
- impact
- beacon and flagship initiatives.