The Faculty of Science provides funding for measures with the goal to comply its equal opportunity plan and its equality directive. Applications for support can be submitted formless via email to the Equal Opportunities Commissioner at any time. The Equal Opportunities Policy Board decides on the granting in the following Board Meeting.
Grants can be awarded to cover the following types of expenditure:
Funding for the support of mothers-to-be during pregnancy, childbirth and for the support of families (student assistance up to 40 h/month); In the proposal the reasons leading to the additional needs must be clearly described.
Funding of doctoral and post-doctoral students with a child/children, exhibiting a verifiable expenditure of time in educating their children (student assistance); In the proposal the needs for additional appropriations due to family circumstances must be explicitly stated.
Funding of student assistance for organizing research networks with an explicit reference to gender
Support of workshops for female junior researchers
Support of accompanying measures, e.g. the attendance of educational seminars concerning career development in science for junior researchers
Support of conferences with an explicit reference to gender
Support of family-friendly basic conditions during conferences at the faculty
The grant application must contain the following Information:
name and address of the applicant,
affiliation to the department,
short description of the planned project with explanations to its gender perspective,
a detailed record on the requested appropriations.
The Teaching Equality Program supports activities that pursue the goal of establishing equal opportunities in studies. There are funds for teaching assignments, guest lectures and travel expenses in the framework of (practice-oriented) lectures, workshops or discussion rounds. The possibility of funding is given for activities at the University of Tübingen that satisfy one of the following points:
(practice-oriented) lectures or discussion rounds of female represenatitives of the relevant subject (occupational orientation and career path of successfull working women)
gender studies
training of the subject-specific gender expertise of students
Applications for support can be submitted to the Equal Opportunity Commissioner ant any time. The Equal Opportunities Policy Board decides on the granting in the following Board Meeting.
More information about the TEA program of the University of Tübingen and the announcement of TEA guest professorships can be found here.
