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 7 September 2021, the Equal Opportunities Officers of our five faculties held a video conference to discuss a total of 14 applications that were submitted in the third round of the 2021 funding allocation. Of these, eleven applications were approved with a total funding amount of 13,084 EUR. In addition, the Equal Opportunities Officers decided to support four female applicants from our School of Science a with a maximum of 1,000 EUR each, who had successfully applied in the TU programme "More Time for Science", but who, due to submitting their applications only shortly before the application deadline, no longer received the otherwise granted funding of up to 3,000 EUR because of the limitation of central funds. As always, it was thoroughly checked that the planned measures complied with our guidelines for the allocation of funds and that, above all, no other sources of funding were available.
The Faculty of Biology thus received funds for a total of five applicants amounting to 10,280 EUR. They were awarded for two applications from the programme "More Time for Science", for two applications for funds for WHK and SHK staff who will provide support in a habilitation project and a research project for two women at an advanced stage of their scientific careers. In addition, funds were awarded to a female post-doctoral researcher to finance a further training measure.
For the Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, 3,630 EUR were made available for a total of four applications. They serve to partially finance the applicants' travel expenses for conference attendance and a research stay, as well as for a SHK employee within the framework of the programme "More Time for Science". Another application for WHK funds was rejected because other sources of funding are available.
Two applicants from the Faculty of Mathematics requested funding for measures to attract female students to study mathematics at TU Dresden. Both applications, totalling 1,400 EUR, were approved.
Four applications from the Faculty of Physics were submitted, two of which were not approved because, on the one hand, other sources of funding were to be made use of first and, on the other hand, the measure described could not be assigned to the ten objectives that we would like to pursue with the equal opportunities funds. We are pleased to grant a travel allowance for participation in the DPG-initiated programme "Leading for Tomorrow", in which physicists can acquire leadership and management skills. A total of 464 EUR will go to the Faculty of Physics.
Two applicants from the Faculty of Psychology were granted 1,410 EUR, which will be used to further develop the project "Equality despite Pandemic" and within the framework of the programme "More Time for Science" for honorary staff.
In total, 17,084 EUR were awarded in the 3rd round of granting.
The last deadline in 2021 for submitting applications for equality funds is 15 November 2021!