Open Academy
An interactive online academy and webinar series training staff, students and stakeholders on equality and diversity.
An Erasmus+ project · 2024–2026
Building more equal, diverse and inclusive universities.
Labs4Change brings together four European partners to promote equality, diversity and non-discrimination in higher education — through living labs, participatory audits and an open academy.
Change, made from within
Inequality in universities is layered — gender, origin, class and ability intersect in ways no single fix can solve. Labs4Change works with the people who study and work in higher education to understand those layers and co-create practical, lasting change.
What the project does
Participatory audits
A shared method to assess policies and practices on gender and diversity, and turn the findings into action.
Living Labs
Social innovation labs inside universities, where staff and students co-create solutions to the challenges they identify.
Toolkit
A methodological and strategic guide to help disseminate the project and implement it across other higher education institutions, organisations and countries.
Across all four, a growing European network of change agents learns from each other and carries the work forward.
What you can use today
Diagnostic tool
A free self-assessment for any European higher education institution. Get your equality & diversity maturity in minutes — emailed and downloadable.
Toolkit
Open guides, participatory-audit instruments and Living Lab templates — free to download, use and adapt.
Academy
Self-paced training and webinars on equality, diversity and non-discrimination for university communities.
The journey so far
A two-year collaboration across Spain, Greece and Germany.
3 Living Labs in universities
2 Participatory pilot audits
4 Partner organisations
3 Countries