Equal Opportunities Funding
Members of the School of Science may apply for financial support for activities that serve to implement the equal opportunities mandate in the School. The objectives to be pursued with these funds as well as the necessary steps from the application to the statement of achievements can be found in the "Guidelines for Working with Equal Opportunities in the School of Science". Please use the appropriate forms in the current version (see below) for your application (including a data protection declaration) as well as for a final evaluation of the success of the activity! Please send the completed forms in electronically readable pdf-format by e-mail to the Equal Opportunities Officer of your faculties and in cc also to the Equal Opportunities Officer of the School of Science.
A total of 50,000 EUR will again be available in 2021. All applicants will be informed about the approval of the funds by the Equal Opportunities Officers of their faculties.
Guidelines for Use of Equality Funds in the School of Science (first version from 03.01.2018, in response to the Corona pandemic last revision on 24 June 2020)
Application form (last revision on 18 January 2021):
Privacy policy (last revision on 18 June 2021, download file first and then digitally sign if available):
Form for accounting and valuation:
On May 27, 2021, the Equal Opportunity Officers of our five faculties held a video conference to discuss a total of six applications submitted in the second round of the 2021 funding allocation. In a first step, five of these applications were approved immediately. Another application from the Faculty of Physics was subsequently approved by the Equal Opportunity Officers after the applicant submitted further explanations about the planned project.
For the Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, EUR 2,000 was provided, which will be used to organize a mini-conference under the direction of Prof. Eychmüller. There, the PhD students of the faculty, who are disadvantaged by the Corona restrictions, shall get to know conference atmosphere with invited guest speakers here on site and increase their competences for scientific oral and poster presentation. We would be very happy if this format would be tried out at other faculties as well!
In the Faculty of Physics, EUR 500 each was granted as travel subsidies to two female PhD students who want to complete measurement series at large research facilities in Italy that were cancelled due to Corona. In addition, funds in the amount of 700 EUR went to a junior scientist in physics didactics to support the independent evaluation of large inquiries as part of her own research project, which cannot be fully financed from household funds.
For the development of a larger project in the School of Science under the topic "Equality despite pandemic", a total of 7,276 EUR was granted for the preparation and implementation of a questionnaire among the young scientists of the School of Science as well as for a workshop for this group of persons, which will be held under the topic "Future workshop - shaping academic careers in a family-friendly way". More information can be found under Workshop News. Dr. Magdalena Wekenborg, the deputy equal opportunity officer of our department, is responsible for the scientific management of these measures. The overall project is intended to serve the implementation of our Equal Opportunity Plan (among other things, Measure 4 in Action Area 1 of the plan, see Equal Opportunity plan of the School of Science).
Applications for equal opportunity funds from the faculties of biology, mathematics and psychology were unfortunately not received in the 2nd allocation round 2021.
A total of EUR 10,976 was thus committed in the 2nd allocation round.
The next deadline for the submission of applications for equal opportunity funds is August 15, 2021!