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 aimed at institutionalizing a structure that has been absent at the TU Dresden so far, which was intended to offer all researchers access to advice and training on gender-sensitive research and development, regardless of their field of expertise, promote networking to strengthen interdisciplinary gender research, and reward best practice examples.
In doing so, the university sought to enhance research quality and to sustainably strengthen its excellence and international competitiveness through gender-competent research, development and innovation. Institutionally anchored measures were to include, for example: 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 for an 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.
To evaluate implementation variants of the envisioned structural measures, a SWOT analysis was carried out during the concept phase and a broad participatory exchange process was initiated involving existing actors in gender research, stakeholders of the university as well as cooperation partners, culminating in a symposium. The result was a consensus-based structural concept for the implementation of gender aspects in research, development and knowledge transfer in society and the working world, which was submitted for the implementation phase. The process was accompanied by recommendation reports to the university management.
At that stage, the application for the implementation phase had been submitted, thus concluding the concept phase. The project ended in December 2022.
This project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding code 01FP22G07).
