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Promotion of Women in Science

A) Grants and awards

Scholarship programmes to promote equal opportunities (intern)

This link leads to an information page for the MArburg University Research Academy (MARA), an institution of the Philipps-Universität with the aim of supporting young researchers. It's also worth visiting the MARA homepage itself.

Scholarships by and for women (intern and extern, German)

To facilitate your research for a funding which fits your personal situation, the university's central Women's Development and Equality office provides a comprehensive collection of links to foundations, associations, programs, and data sources.

B) Networks and Mailing Lists

Within the university

• Internal Network - FEMALE Scientists at the Philipps-Universität Marburg

The Philipps-Universität offers various mentoring programs for (junior) female scientists of all qualification levels.

External

• Mentoring Hessen - Women’s Mentoring Network for Women in Science and Technology

Mentoring Hessen is a joint project of Hessian universities and universities of applied sciences to advance the careers of women and exists since 2017. The aim is to increase the percentage of women in attractive specialist and management positions in both academia and business.

• ProCareer.MINT

ProCareer.MINT is the funding line of Mentoring Hessen for female MINT students. The aim is to support you as a female student of natural sciences or engineering in your professional and personal development and to give you a practical insight into professional life.

• ProCareer.Doc

ProCareer.Doc is the support line for female doctoral candidates and early postdocs at Hessian universities and universities of applied sciences. The mentoring program aims to support you in developing individual career strategies and in making decisions about your career path after your doctorate.

• Pro.Academia

ProAcademia is the funding line of Mentoring Hessen for early postdocs and advanced doctoral students of Hessian universities and universities of applied sciences who see their career path in science or non-university research and want to prepare for it. The program combines mentoring, career-specific intensive training and strategic networking.

• ProProfessur

ProProfessur is the funding line that directly prepares, supports and accompanies advanced female scientists at Hessian universities and universities of applied sciences on their way to professorship. The goal is to support you in your scientific profile building, strategic career planning and in the immediate application process in order to successfully manage the transition and increase the proportion of women in professorships. 

• Women Physicists Mailing List

This mailing list with the name "physikerinnen" (female physicists) was initiated at the national meeting of female physicists in Göttingen in 1995. It is intended to serve as an information and discussion forum for all women physicists. Information and links are available on the homepage of the AK Chancengleichheit (work group equal opportunities) of the DPG, which also emerged from the physicists' conferences.

C) Other Relevant Pages

• Komm Mach Mint (Take part in MINT)

The homepage of the national pact for women in MINT-occupations with the aim of exploiting the full potential of women in scientific and technical occupations in view of the emerging shortage of skilled workers.

• Working Group on Equal Opportunities of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (AKC)

The AKC aims to improve the framework conditions for women physicists, to strengthen them and to promote networking, among other things through conferences such as the German Conference of Women Physicists, participations in the spring meetings of the DPG and the International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP) as well as the organization of workshops and making outstanding women scientists visible through the Lise Meitner Lectures, our Physicist of the Week project and interviews with women physicists.