As a visible indication of its role as a responsible university, WU joined the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative in 2015. As a member of this initiative, we are committed to complying with the network’s standards.
WU is responsible for its research, for maintaining good scientific practice, and for handling research results ethically.
We see it as our responsibility to make sure our students receive excellent teaching, with high-quality seminars, lectures, and labs, and to make sure they leave WU with positive experiences and attitudes.
WU is responsible for creating an open and inclusive environment for its faculty, staff, and students, where members of the WU community feel like they belong and are valued. A research and teaching environment that makes this university a place worth being and that gives everyone the freedom and opportunities to perform to their highest potential.
As a public university, WU also has a responsibility to society. Not only through the work of its researchers and teachers and the influence of its students and graduates on society, but also as a place where ideas are generated, as a motor for social change, and as a role model in everything it does.
The WU community is made up of people with many different roles: members of the University Board, the Rector’s Council, and the Senate, academic and administrative staff, and of course also students. Together we have to take responsibility at and for this university – responsibility in the way we conduct research, teach, and learn, the way we work, how we treat each other, and how we go about our daily lives.