Positive Evaluation of Equal Opportunities Strategy
 

Programme Supporting Female Professors to Fund Additional Jobs at Leibniz Universität

More female university professors – this is one of the aims of the female professors’ programme sponsored by the Federal Government and the Länder. Leibniz Universität Hannover’s equal opportunities strategy has been accepted into the support programme, and the university can apply for funding to employ up to three female professors.

The following five-year funding of positions is planned: a regular W2/W3 professorship, and two positions to be filled ahead of their coming vacant, one in engineering and a further W3 position in the humanities with the emphasis on gender studies.

Leibniz Universität’s equal opportunities strategy does not aim solely to increase the number of women at institutes of higher education, but also to integrate women’s and gender studies into research and teaching. Not least, the programme aims to improve the situation of women studying and working at universities. At the same time, and in the sense of gender mainstreaming, equal opportunities for both women and men is to be implemented at all political levels.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Länder are providing a total of 150 million Euros to finance the female professors’ programme. The programme aims to improve the prospects of women in academic life and, in the long term, to increase the number of women in this field. 113 institutes of higher education from the whole of Germany took part in this programme and submitted proposals. 79 of them, including Leibniz Universität Hannover, were selected on the basis of their exemplary equal opportunities programmes. Lower Saxony came out top among all the states: 14 successful equal opportunities strategies were accepted into the female professors’ programme.

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