IUCr policy

Freedom and gender policy

The organizers of the school observes the basic policy of non-discrimination and affirms the right and freedom of scientists to associate in international scientific activity without regard to such factors as ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, language, political stance, gender, sex or age, in accordance with the Statutes of the International Council for Science.

At this meeting no barriers will exist which would prevent the participation of bona fide scientists.  

We, as organisers of the IUCr2020 Computing School and members of the IUCr Computing Comission, are committed to support the efforts of the IUCr in achieving gender balance in all its institutions and activities, and for this purpose we have decided to:

• Establish a speaker policy that would ensure that at least 30 % of our speakers are female, as prior statistics have shown this to be representative of the general community (https://ecm31.ecanews.org/en/statement-on-gender-balance.php)

• Retrieve the gender and other diversity statistics from our particular subfield (crystallographic computing) for future reference.

• Be a family-friendly event. We will supply cots for small children and children will be allowed in the sessions.