The CHARM-EU DEI team held its annual in-person team meeting and took part in the CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2026, held at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

The central themes of the event were democratic values, social resilience and open science, with ELTE researchers enriching the programme as speakers, workshop leaders and poster presenters.

A major milestone for the faculty was the one-minute ‘lightning talk’-style poster presentation by the CHARM-EU DEI working group led by Dr Ágnes Sarolta Fazekas-Vinkovits, which also made its debut as the alliance’s official project deliverable (Deliverable 2.3). The ‘Monitoring for Inclusion, Diversity and Non-Discrimination’ project used a mixed-methods approach based on 22 indicators to map institutional outcomes and areas for improvement, moving away from superficial compliance towards genuine data-driven decision-making.

Among the data presented, it is noteworthy that, during the 2023–2026 period, €82,400 in funding was distributed amongst beneficiaries, and 83 per cent of Capstone inclusivity applications met the requirements and were awarded funding.

The main conclusion of the poster is that the greatest risk to sustainable inclusion is the loss of institutional memory; therefore, in future, diversity and transparent self-assessment must be permanently embedded into the university consortium’s daily routines, formal networks and onboarding processes.