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This page contains information on all projects and programmes of the Centre for Equal Opportunities in Science and Research at the TU Chemnitz as well as the projects and programmes that are and were coordinated in cooperation with other institutions and organisations.

Projects for Female Pupils

The TU Chemnitz is looking for talented young researchers and has therefore organised a completion for “special achievements” (BeLL) in the subjects Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Sciences for female high school students in the 11th and 12th grade. The best BeLLs will be awarded attractive monetary prizes.

Are you interested in Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology and you want to know if academic studies in MINT-Subjects is something you want to peruse? The mentoring project Girls’ Tandem will allow you to accompany a female university student in her everyday life and you will get the chance to know her subject field a bit better. Apply now for the next round!

Projects for Female University and Doctoral Students

In 2013, the Equality Commission of the TU Chemnitz praised exceptional masters and diploma thesis by female Junior Scientists from the natural and technical science faculties for the first time. This award aims to create an incentive for female graduates to orientate their careers towards the field of science.

The Marie-Pleißner-Award is given to exceptional masters and diploma thesis by female junior scientists of the Behavioural and Social Science faculty, the Economics and Business Administration faculty as well as the faculty of Humanities. This award aims to create an incentive for female graduates to orientate their careers towards the field of science.

Regular Meeting of Female STEM-Students were an initiation by the Centre for Equal Opportunities in Research and Science to help female students to build an inter-year network between other female MINT-Students, female graduates, female employees and female professors. These gatherings aim to support and motivate female students throughout their studies and also after their graduation to pursue a career in the field of science.

The Equality Commission grants short term scholarships for female junior scientists. These scholarships are paid out of the Equality Fund. The following link will inform you of application requirements and further information on the scholarships.

The Equality Commission provides travel grants for female junior scientist. This grant is paid out of the Equality Fund. The following link will give more information on the application requirements.

The Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in MINT-Fields primarily serves to create a multidisciplinary professional exchange between female scientists working in the natural and technical sciences. Female experts from the field of science, economy as well as female junior scientists and students from MINT-subjects have the opportunity to network, create promising cooperations and lay the first building stones of their future careers at universities, Institutions outside of universities and innovative companies. The soft-skill-workshops help spark personal development.

The mentoring programme supports highly motivated female junior scientists to specifically prepare them from their careers in executive positions in science to a professorship. “WoMentYou_Doc” is only offered to female junior scientists of all faculties as well as Central Institution at the TU Chemnitz during the doctoral phase, that want to remain in the scientific system and aim to reach an executive position in science or research.

Projects for Female Scientists

The Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in MINT-Fields, under the patronage of Professor Olfa Kanoun (Professorship for Electrical Measurements and Senor Technology) and the central Equality Commissioner Dipl.-Päd. Karla Kebsch, the symposium primarily serves to create an interdisciplinary professional exchange between female scientists working in the natural and technical sciences. Female experts from the field of science, economy as well as female junior scientists and students from MINT-subjects have the opportunity to network, create promising cooperations and lay the first building stones of their future careers at universities, Institutions outside of universities and innovative companies. The soft-skill-workshops help spark personal development.

The Female MINT-Scientist Gathering pursues three goals for the advancement of female MINT-junior scientists: Networking, to create a scientific and interdisciplinary exchange as well as career advancements in the field of science. The gatherings are for female professors as well as research assistants at the TU Chemnitz, representatives of the Fraunhofer Insitute ENAS and IWU as well as the Equality Commissioner of the MINT-faculties at the TU.

The mentoring programme supports female researches with the planning and implementation of their career paths towards a professorship. “WoMentYou” supports female junior professors, doctoral candidates, scientists already qualified to teach at professorial level, post-doctorates and doctorates during the end phase of their doctorate of all faculties as well as Central Institutions at the TU Chemnitz, that wish to pursue a professorship or an executive position in science and research.

Completed Projects

Gender x Computer Science. Supporting networking and dialogue in research

Rapid developments in the IT-branch, as well as their multiple effects on the world we humans live in, demands an ever more growing occupation with user appropriate elements of presentation. The Centre for Equal Opportunities in Science and Research at the TU Chemnitz has picked up this topic and developed a project that desensitises computer scientists towards gender and diversity and that supports the integration of gender aspects in the scientific research process. This project also included conscious taking up and reflection of this topic in own projects.

The cooperation partners were TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the TU Ilmenau and the OVGU Magdeburg. The project stretched till May 2018. The goals were to evoke an intense dialogue, the sensitisation of research as well as to improve the research networking between universities and employees and to demonstrate potential and chances of integrating gender aspects into the computer science research.

To be able to achieve the set goals, measures were installed which also included five thematically fitting workshops held on the first and last day of a conference. The participants of these workshops were given selected input to projects and were further educated methodically and subject specifically.

Further informationen: Gender x Computer Science [de]

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