2025
- End of the term of the Diversity Concept 2025 – continuation of the concept from 2026 onwards
- Advertisement of a dedicated position for the topic of barrier-free Leibniz University
- Unconscious bias in appointment procedures: mandatory discussion of unconscious biases in all appointment committees at LUH
2024
- Successful acquisition of the NESIS project ‘Netzwerk- und Servicestelle Inklusiv studieren in Niedersachsen’ in collaboration with the University of Hildesheim and funded by the MWK
- Change of first names and gender at LUH
- New portal: Gender- and diversity-sensitive language
- Launch of the Gender & Diversity Competence Programme for doctoral students and postdocs
2023
- New offer: Awareness at events at LUH
- Information campaigns ‘Stop discrimination. Protect students and employees’ and ‘Protection against sexual harassment at LUH’
- Expansion of the consulting service for experiences of discrimination at the Equal Opportunities Office
2022
- Launch of the A-Teams (anti-discrimination teams) at LUH (peer-to-peer counselling on experiences of discrimination), cooperation project with the Anti-Discrimination Office of the State Capital of Hanover
- Web platform on racism and anti-Semitism criticism
- New: Restrooms for all at LUH
- Launch of the Queer Campus project at LUH
2021
- Video series on accessibility in video: Seeing sounds, hearing images
- Expansion of the consulting service at the University Office for Diversity Opportunities
- Campaign RESPECT – DIVERSITY, NOT HATE.
2020
- Launch of the online series ‘Als Erste:r promovieren’ (first generation PhD's) with the Graduate Academy and Arbeiterkind.de (2021 to present)
- LUH receives again for the years 2020 to 2022, the Total E-Quality award for the first time with the Diversity add-on
- Publication of guidelines for university lecturers on diversity-sensitive teaching and accessible teaching
- Adoption of the Action Plan for Accessible Leibniz University by the Executive Board and the Senate (2020 to 2025)
2019
- Establishment of the Accessible University working group to develop the Action Plan – Accessibility at Leibniz University Hannover
- Symposium on inclusive studying
- Inclusive Studying project with qualitative interviews
2018
- Adoption of the Diversity Concept 2025 by the Presidium and the Senate with a term from 2018 to 2025
- Signing of the Hanover Sports Alliance 'FarbenSpiel'
2017
- Film "Diversity Management an der LUH"
- Launch of Diversity Talks, regular discussion groups on diversity topics
- Campaign ‘Together against sexual harassment’ (2017 to 2018)
- Book project on refugees to connect stakeholders at LUH: Fluchtmigration, gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und Bildung (Sievers & Grawan 2017)
- Film ‘Diversity Management at LUH’
2016
- Membership in the 'Netzwerk Diversity an Hochschulen'
- Adoption of the ten diversity basic principles of LUH
- Renaming of the Equal Opportunities Office to 'Hochschulbüro für ChancenVielfalt'
- Appointment of a Diversity Management Officer
- Establishment of the Diversity Council at Leibniz University Hannover
- Implementation of diversity management at LUH and establishment in the Equal Opportunities Office as a third focus alongside equal opportunities work and family services
2013
- Annual participation of LUH in German Diversity Day
- Signing of the 'Charta der Vielfalt' as the first university in Lower Saxony
2012
- Establishment of the Senate Diversity Working Group
- Informal Diversity Working Group and diversitAS (Diversity Migration Education) office at the Faculty of Humanities
