DiGENet funds four junior research groups in the field of gender and diversity research, in which new questions, methods and approaches are used to create a scientific basis for empirically informed organizational development in the areas of diversity and gender equality at universities. Building on the excellent state of knowledge and the data and analysis material already available in Berlin, existing equality and anti-discrimination measures will be critically examined and evaluated with regard to their transferability to new diversity measures. The identification and analysis of discriminatory and exclusionary structures and processes in the organizational structures and academic cultures of the BUA partner institutions will be translated into the development of innovative standards that promote cultural change towards a diversity- and gender-sensitive research and teaching environment.