BMBF-Project 'GenderExzellenz' – Considering Gender Aspects for Increased Quality in Excellent Research – Designing a Structure- Development Concept for the TU Dresden
The design and implementation of a structure-development concept for the consideration of gender aspects in research aims at institutionalizing a structure that has been absent at the TU Dresden so far, which offers all researchers access to advice and training on gender-sensitive research and development, regardless of their field of expertise, promotes networking to strengthen interdisciplinary gender research, and rewards best practice examples.
In this way, the university expects to increase the research quality and sustainably strengthen its excellence and international competitiveness through gender competent research, development and innovation. Required measures that will be anchored institutionally are e.g.: consultations through project scouts of the funding department, developing further education offers for the acquisition of gender competence at the Center for Continuing Education, establishing a coordinating institutional structural unit for the promotion of interdisciplinary gender research and gender-sensitive accompanying research, development and testing of a model interdisciplinary and inter-institutional doctoral workshop in medicine as a prototype for graduate funding at the TU Dresden, as well as effective science communication to accompany all measures. In order to evaluate implementation variants of the envisioned structural measures, a SWOT analysis will be carried out in the concept phase and a broad participatory exchange process will take place with already existing actors in gender research, stakeholders of the university as well as cooperation partners, which will culminate in a symposium. The result will be a consensus-based structural concept for the implementation of gender aspects in research, development and knowledge transfer in society and the working world, which will be submitted for the implementation phase. The process will be accompanied by recommendation reports to the university management.
At this stage, the project application has been submitted for the implementation phase, which concludes the concept phase.
This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding code 01FP22G07).
