Equal opportunities - University documents

This section presents the University documents focused on promoting gender equality and equal opportunities. These include strategic documents (Gender Equality Plan), monitoring and analysis documents (Gender Balance), and documents centered on proposing actions and special measures (Positive Action Plan). These are complemented by guidelines and language policies, the Code of Ethics, and codes ofconduct.

Gender Equality Plan
The document that defines the University's strategy for promoting gender equality and equal opportunities within the institution over a three-year period.
Gender Equality Plan (2025-2027)

Gender Budget
Gender budgeting, understood as the application of the principle of gender mainstreaming in the budgeting procedure, consists of adopting a gender impact assessment of budget policies, integrating the gender perspective at all levels of the budgeting procedure and restructuring revenue and expenditure in order to promote equality between the sexes.
Gender Budget

Positive Action Plan P.A.P.
Positive actions are temporary special measures which, by way of derogation from the principle of formal equality, are aimed at removing obstacles to full and effective equal opportunities. They are “special” measures, specific and clearly defined, implemented in a given context to eliminate all forms of discrimination, both direct and indirect, and “temporary” insofar as they are necessary as long as a disparity is identified.
Positive Action Plan 2021-2023

"Genders and Language", guidelines for a gender-sensitive approach to institutional language
The University of Padua promotes the use of non-discriminatory language that is attentive to gender differences in institutional communication, documents and administrative acts, public events, and everyday academic life: language that conveys the values of fairness, openness, and inclusion that inspire us.
Genders and Language (PDF format)

Language policies for local and global communication
Through the document “Language policies for local and global communication,” the University of Padua provides some guidelines on the use of the Italian and English languages in the University's institutional communication and outlines the measures to be adopted to ensure intercultural, inclusive, and effective communication.
Language policies for local and global communication

Codes of conduct and discipline
Codes of conduct and discipline

Equal opportunities and gender equality

Delegate: Gaya Spolverato

For information on institutional initiatives for equal opportunities and gender equality
Public Engagement Office: public.engagement@unipd.it

To contact the equal opportunities representatives in each department
List of department representatives

For information on work-life balance initiatives for staff (benefits and agreements for nurseries and summer centers, transport and services, teleworking and smart working)
Trattamenti economici e welfare Office - welfare@unipd.it