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 (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 2020. 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, last revision from 28.05.2019)
Application form:
Privacy policy:
Form for accounting and valuation:
In the four allocation rounds during the last year, funds were approved for a wide range of gender equality measures. A compilation of statistical data on the allocation of equal opportunities funds in 2019 can be found at Bilanz_2019.
The equal opportunities officers of the faculties and of the School of Science decided on 25 February 2020 on the applications in the first 2020 award round, in which a total of 15 applications from the School of Science were discussed. Of the four applications from the Faculty of Biology, three were approved with a total of 2,500 EUR, which will mainly be used to partially finance conference participation, a research stay in South Africa and a professional training measure. Unfortunately, the fourth application could not be granted because it was not directly aimed at fulfilling one of the eight objectives in the award guidelines. Two applicants from the Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry were also awarded funds for the partial financing of conference participation totalling 1,100 EUR. The Equal Opportunities Officer from the Faculty of Mathematics had not received any applications. A total of seven applications were submitted from the Faculty of Physics. In one case, funds were again awarded to a female research assistant for the partial financing of a conference presentation and the implementation of a workshop. We were extremely pleased that we were able to approve four applications for the Faculty of Physics to pay the travel expenses for participation in femtec schools. A grant of 2,680 EUR was again awarded for the realization of the girls' holiday experimentation camp. With a small amount of start-up financing, we would like to support the students' idea of establishing a women's meeting place at the faculty, which will serve the personal exchange of female physicists at different career levels. The Faculty of Physics has been granted equal opportunities funds of 4,810 EUR in total. The Faculty of Psychology submitted a major application to finance a study on the causes of the underrepresentation of female students in the physics faculty. However, before the final allocation of the funds, further preliminary arrangements are to be made and, if necessary, preliminary studies are to be carried out.
The total amount of equality funds approved in the 1st round 2020 is thus EUR 8,410.
At this point, it should be explicitly emphasised that the equality funds will also be paid if there is a significant time shift of the measures, e.g. during business trips, due to the restrictions caused by the novel coronavirus. In such cases, we ask applicants to contact the equal opportunities officers of the respective faculty and of the School of Science.
The next deadline for applications is 15 May 2020!