Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Despite the progress that has been made in getting women into science at the university level, there remains a challenge to ensure the promotion of women to senior positions, increase their representation as conference presenters, chairs, and, in general, their equal treatment. Many countries, institutions and national research initiatives have developed programmes to help support women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), areas which have a good overlap with the diverse fields involved in Quantum Technologies. In industry, we see similar challenges.

The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (EDI-WG) of the Quantum Flagship is led by the current CSA. However, most of its members are individuals from the European quantum community offering their time and expertise on a pro-bono basis. See the list of the members below.

Initiatives of the EDI-WG include:

• Guidelines for Promoting Equity and Inclusion in Scientific Meetings
• Regularly surveying the quantum community on EDI
• EDI sessions and an EDI prize at the European Quantum Technologies Conference

If you wish to get in touch with the EDI workgroup, feel free to send us an email at equality@qt.eu.

EDI Working Group Members