Gender equality team
The TRR 150 has formed a team to achieve and to sustain the goal of equal opportunities for scientists and scholars:
KIT:Miu Mach
TU Darmstadt:Leon Schuhmann
In close cooperation with the Service Unit for Gender Consulting of the TU Darmstadt and the KIT a wide range of measures and activities are carried out:
- Attracting female students to MINT subjects,
- Excursions and events of mentoring groups for female students,
- Financing of the participation of female students in workshops on the topics of the SFB/Transregios (early recruiting),
- Recruitment of employees,
- Individual coaching of employees,
- Participation in career workshops for female employees,
- Establishment of teleworking jobs for parents who are on parental part-time leave or enabling of homeworking jobs for young parents,
- Coverage of childcare costs to enable one parent to attend an evening event or a special event if required,
- Financing of a replacement in the event of a family-related absence of a sub-project leader or scientific staff,
- Support for doctoral students and parents during research stays abroad.
News
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Dr Daniela Goedderz wins the “Best Poster Presentation – Early stage Researcher” award at FRPM23 in Switzerland
2023/07/18
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Picture: TRR 150Information day for girls of the Liebfrauenschule Bensheim
2022/07/04
Insights into Mechanical Engineering
On 28 June 2022, a group of schoolgirls from the Liebfrauenschule Bensheim were guests at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Andreas Dreizler had invited the school's basic physics course to the TU Darmstadt. The background to this excursion was to provide insights into the job profile of an engineering scientist.
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“In science you use your creativity and imagination all the time”
2022/02/10
The Center of Excellence in Combustion celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015. The Center of Excellence in Combustion celebrates this event and releases a video with statements from two of its most inspiring women researchers.
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2020/11/24
“Gender equality in research routine – how does it affect me?”
Members of the collaborative research centres 805, 1194, TRR 150 and TRR 270 had an intense panel discussion about gender equality issues and how they affect their every-day working lives.
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Career paths – women engineers report
2018/12/13
Panel discussion
The career paths in engineering are diverse, as are the disciplines and research fields in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
