Gender Statement
Generally, gender sensitive aspects of transport are widely recognized, numerous and highly relevant. In addition, transportation is traditionally male-dominated form the point of view of employment and its represented values. For example, safety concerns, particularly during nighttime travel, are common among women using public transportation. Women are more likely than men to consistently feel insecure when traveling after dark. The project is also concerned with exploring the impact of the promoting more safe and secure transportation to certain equality groups including young people or women, who feel vulnerable to crime and fear of crime when travelling.
The project coordinators will ensure that all partners integrate the gender dimension in R&I content to help improving the scientific quality and societal relevance of the produced knowledge, technology, and innovation. More specifically, the integration of the gender perspective will be carefully taken into account in each step over the course of the project implementation and will be applied whenever relevant in activities such as public engagement, dissemination, exploitation and creating skilled workforce. From the point of view of the accessibility and use of project results, the consortium will be actively committed to provide the project outcome to all members of society and cultures without discrimination on the personal characteristics such as age, race, belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Both UK and Egyptian lead institutions will also consider gender balance and equity. Both partners are aware that different perspectives and approaches determine teaching, research and innovation success, which is only possible to be achieved by equitable engagement of both men and women. Coventry University has in place a gender and age policy document that aims to actively promote and enforce gender balance and equality and support students, Staff and young researchers at the beginning of their career.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
Addressing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in transportation safety projects is crucial to make sure that the benefits of promoting safety culture for both road and rail users are distributed fairly across diverse communities. The proposed project supports the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) with respect to age, disability, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. Therefore, the partner organisations will encourage the active participation of diverse persons at all levels, functions and disciplines, with no bias towards any particular aspect mentioned above. This can be made by involving diverse communities in the in the proposed communication activities of the project for increasing the awareness of the safe system approach in the transportation sector. The project partners are committed to make efforts to understand the unique safety concerns of different demographic groups.
Both UK and Egyptian institute will ensure putting the project communication materials in a way that is inclusive and easily understandable across diverse audiences.