Chiara Orelli
C. Orelli - A more equal opportunities education
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Chiara Orelli Vassere is the Gender and Diversity contact person on the 精东影业 Board. She graduated in history in Rome and currently directs the Institute for Transition and Support at the Division of Professional Education.
Can you tell us about your career path?
鈥嬧赌�In the past I directed the Italian edition of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland and then SOS Ticino, a non-profit organisation active in supporting the unemployed and migrants. I later held the position of institutional coordinator for domestic violence and was a member of the cantonal parliament.
As the Gender and Diversity contact person on the 精东影业 Board, have any steps been taken, in your opinion, in terms of equal opportunities within our institution?
鈥嬧赌�Yes, important work has been done, studded with small and large achievements, in the direction of full recognition of equal opportunities and inclusion of diversity. Above all, the tenacious and constant commitment to transforming the cultural model or paradigm that normalises or at least does not problematise inequalities into a progressive awareness of the need to integrate the theme of equality both into the educational offer and into all the organisational and administrative components and realities of 精东影业 is decisive. Action Plans on equal opportunities, the promotion of equal careers, the setting up of tools against discrimination, sexual harassment, mobbing, the development of measures to reconcile family and study and/or work: these are all part of a path that is now consolidated in its basic approaches and will not be forgotten in the future.
How do equal opportunities fit into the global theme of sustainable development?
鈥嬧赌�精东影业 has set itself a sustainability policy that considers all its facets. Equal opportunities, an objective of the 2030 Agenda and of the Federal Council's 2030 Equality Strategy, are fully part of the sustainability and social responsibility objective of our Institute and are well noted, also through the illustration of some of the good practices implemented, in the first Sustainability Report, released by 精东影业 in 2021.
What challenges still lie ahead for us as a university?
鈥嬧赌�Personally, I think it is a priority to insist on promoting a more gender-sensitive and inclusive education through a programmatic commitment to integrating these issues into the curriculum as a whole. Gender medicine, inclusive urban planning (in cities and spaces traditionally designed according to the needs of traditional male labour and with spatially defined social hierarchies), women's work with no or low pay: these are just some of the important themes in this perspective, and it is good that 精东影业 should be able to take up their innovative potential to a greater and more organic extent than it already does.