Measures for equal opportunities

General Information

Objectives:

Promoting equal opportunities for men and women is of special importance to the DFG and rooted in its statutes.
To help accomplish this goal, this module can be used to request funds for targeted measures to promote gender equality in science and academia and to help researchers combine career and family.

DFG-Funds for Equal Opportunities can be Applied to the Following Measures:

a) Career development for female employees

(participation) fee for mentoring programmes
(participation) fee for soft skills training; management training; continuing education workshops etc.
(participation) fee for coaching courses
(participation) fee for participation in or building of research networks
office assistant for organising of career development measures

b) Compatibility of family & academic career

family services (e. g. child-care placement)
child-care during events organised by the research network
funding for mobile teachers or babysitting services (only for times outside normal child-care hours or
on special occasions such as illness)
holiday child-care if regular child-care is unavailable
co-financing of child-care centres (purchase of child-care hours/ contribution to staff costs/contribution to establishment and equipment) to allow for more flexible operating hours or to expand the range of activities for babies and toddlers
establishment and operation of home offices
setting up of parent-child room
funding of staff relieving academics with family commitments of the routine tasks in their working field

c) Miscellaneous

gender sensitivity training
development of a manual/website on equal opportunity measures
events such as Girls’days, junior academies/summer schools for girls
mentoring between tertiary and secondary students
additional office supplies for the organisation of equal opportunity measures

_{Compiled on the basis of DFG form 2.22-6/12 // DFG form 1.42-6/12 // DFG form 50.06-6/12 // DFG form 52.14-10/11}

Measures for Equal Opportunities (2014 – 2020)

Career development

Be WISE and Succeed (cancelled due to the coronavirus!)
Date: 08-10/07/2020
Venue: INNSIDE Hotel by Melia, Dresden

Be WISE and Succeed
Date: 14-16/11/2018
Venue: INNSIDE Hotel by Melia, Dresden

Be WISE and Succeed
Date: 15-17/07/2016
Venue: DPRMERO Hotel Königshof, Dresden

Careerbuilding Programm
Date: 07-08/05/2015
Venue: TU Dresden

Compatibility of family & academic career

Workshop "Family and Career"
Referenten: Dr Silke Kramkowski (Procter & Gamble Service GmbH, Schwalbach am Taunus); Prof Dr Moniek Tromp (University Amsterdam); Prof Dr Stefanie Dehnen (University Marburg)
Date: 10/03/2016
Venue: Philipps Universität Marburg

Flexible childcare at TU Dresden
Childcare during scientific events and the Coronavirus pandemic
Establishment of home office
Funding of supportive staff (SHK, WHK)

Programmes for school students

Girls' Day 2020 (cancelled due to the coronavirus!)
Date: 26/03/2020
Venue: TU Dresden

Girls' Day 2019
Date: 28/03/2019
Venue: TU Dresden

Girls' Day 2018
Date: 26/04/2018
Venue: TU Dresden

Girls' Day 2017
Date: 27/04/2017
Venue: TU Dresden

Chemie-Camp — Holidays in an experimental laboratory 2017
Date: 20-24/02/2017
Venue: TU Dresden

Girls' Day 2016
Date: 28/04/2016
Venue: TU Dresden

Girls' Day 2015
Date: 23/04/2015
Venue: TU Dresden

Check MINT — Mentoring for schoolgirls in the STEM disciplines
Date: 2015-2018
Venue: TU Dresden