Equity and Diversity
The promotion of equal opportunities is an explicit commitment of all members and participating institutions involved in the IRTG3019: MEDIS. Within the first funding period the IRTG3019 has a gender distribution among the principal investigators of 44% female PIs. Efforts to enhance gender equality at leadership levels will be vigorously pursued over progressive years of the IRTG3019. Nearly fifty percent of the IRTG3019 executive committee are female. Female project leaders in the consortium serve as ideal role models to encourage early-career female scientists to embark on an academic career. The proportion of women in group leader positions in the IRTG3019 is 56% and the proportion of professors was 38%.
The funds acquired by IRTG3019: MEDIS 5 for equal opportunities measures are earmarked by the DFG and can be used, for example, for the following measures (find out more):
Career Development Measures
- Mentoring programmes, with the purpose of promoting professional and personal support and development.
- Coaching which serves to impart and promote professional skills.
- Soft skills courses and workshops to broaden individual career prospects, for example through the development of skills in rhetoric, communication, time management, presentation, facilitation and negotiation
Measures that Serve to Promote the Compatibility of Research and Family
- Childcare and measures for relatives in need of care (details can be found here)
- Setting up a home office or financing mobile working for project-specific work
- Setting up a parent/child room
- Financing of relief staff for routine activities of researchers (usually student assistants)
Promotion of diversity
- Career measures
- Consulting / support
- Compensation for downtime / support / relief
- Disability-related ad