Code of Conduct

The organizers are committed to making this collaboration productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:

  • Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.
  • All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
  • Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees at events violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge.

Any project participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to the following people:

  • Work Package leaders. If not resolve escalate to:
  • the leads of work packages 1 and 7, for discussion if necessary in the ACME executive board. If not resolved escalate to:
  • EDI specialist on the ACME External Advisory Board. If not resolved, provide a written report and recommendation to:
  • the ACME General Assembly, who can vote on actions. The GA has the ultimate legal decision-making power in the project.

The ACME General Assembly is itself an ACME meeting and subject to this ACME code of conduct, so the chair (or if conflicted, the ACME EAB) may require that a partner is represented by an unconflicted person in the case of a code of conduct violation discussion.

This code of conduct and escalation processes exist for the safeguarding of participants. If any code of conduct violations may be actionable under any relevant law, the appropriate legal authorities must also be informed in parallel with the code of conduct processes above.

This code of conduct is based on the London Code of Conduct.