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  • Equal Opportunites at the Faculty of Medicine

    Career and Family, UKM (in German)
    https://www.ukm.de/index.php?id=4893

    Dual Career Service, University of Münster
    https://www.uni-muenster.de/karriere/career.html

    Evaluation of the Gender Equality Plan 2019‐2022 for the Faculty of Medicine (FB05)
    Dated 02.2023
    Evaluation of the Gender Equality Plan 2019-2022 (PDF in German)

    Funding programme for "Flexible Research Time" during habilitation for women in clinical medicine 
    Flexible Research Time

    Revision of the Gender Equality Plan 2023‐2026 for the Faculty of Medicine (FB05)
    Dated 02.2023
    Revision of the Gender Equality Plan 2023-2026 (PDF in German)

    Women-in-Science Network Medicine Münster
    https://www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/wisnet/women-in-science.html

  • External Funding Opportunities

    Listed below are various external funding opportunities for women in medical research; please be aware that this list is not intended to be comprehensive:
     
    BMfBuF - Overview of Funding
    The website of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space provides a general overview and numerous links to funding organisations, programmes, and databases: 
    https://www.research-in-germany.org/de/forschungsfoerderung.html

    Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation
    The Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation awards scholarships to early-career female scientists with children. This financial support enables them to afford additional childcare or household assistance, allowing them more time to focus on their scientific qualification and professional development
    Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation

    CoMove Programme for Dual Career Scientists of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
    The CoMove programme supports exceptional researchers in dual-career situations relocating to a region where their partner has been appointed to, or is negotiating, a professorship or group leader position in Germany or Austria. It specifically targets accompanying partners seeking to set up a new research group or transfer an existing one to the new location.
    https://boehringer-ingelheim-stiftung.de/en/what-we-fund/funding-programmes/comove.html

    DFG Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators 
    The German Research Foundation (DFG) offers researchers the opportunity to apply for the funding of their own position.
    https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/proposal-funding-process/faq/temporary-positions
     
    DFG Emmy Noether Programme
    The DFG's Emmy Noether Programme enables early-career female researchers in the post-doctoral phase to achieve scientific independence at an early stage by leading their own research group, typically within a five-year funding period. Applications are open to post-docs who generally have two to four years of research experience following their doctorate. Applicants must possess international research experience. 
    https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-opportunities/programmes/individual/emmy-noether/faq

    Deutschen Krebshilfe e.V. - Early Career Funding
    The German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V.) awards fellowships in cancer research to doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, and early-career group leaders returning from abroad. Additionally, applications can be made for endowed professorships.
    https://www.krebshilfe.de/forschen/foerderung/foerderprogramme/nachwuchsfoerderung/

    Runnebaum Foundation: Offers individual financial support to women in medicine and related professions, particularly for doctoral dissertations, starting a career, or further training.
    https://runnebaum-stiftung.de/frauenforderung/ (in German)

    UNESCO-L'Oréal-Stipends "For Women in Science"
    The international UNESCO-L'Oréal Fellowships are awarded annually to 15 highly qualified female researchers in the life sciences (biology, medicine, pharmacy, physiology, agricultural sciences, biotechnology, and biochemistry) from around the world. 
    https://fwis-programm.de/

  • Of broad interest

    BmfFuK, University of Bielefeld, BuKof (2020) Gender 2020: Towards a gender-equitable culture in higher education and science
    Broschure

    Bundeskonferenz der Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Hochschulen 
    http://www.bukof.de/ (in German)

    Center for Gender Relations in Academia (CEWS)
    www.cews.org/

    Deutscher Ärztinnenbund (2019) Medical Women on Top_update 
    Dokument (in German)

    DFG - Equity and Diversity
    Flyer

    DFG - Equity and Diversity
    https://www.dfg.de/en/basics-topics/basics-and-principles-of-funding/equal-opportunities

    Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
    https://www.bmbfsfj.bund.de/bmbfsfj/meta/en

    Gender Equality and Recruitment in Academia
    https://www.gesis.org/en/femconsult

    GenderMed-Wiki
    https://gendermedwiki.uni-muenster.de/

    Gender report for Universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) 
    www.genderreport-hochschulen.nrw.de (in German)

    Gender-based higher education statistics portal for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
    https://www.gender-statistikportal-hochschulen.nrw.de/start

    General Act on Equal Treatment
    https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_agg/index.html

    German Medical Women’s Association (Deutscher Ärztinnenbund e.V. / DÄB)
    https://www.aerztinnenbund.de/About_us.0.341.1.html

    Landeskonferenz der Gleichstellungsbeauftragten 
    http://www.lakofnrw.de (in German)

    Minerva-FemmeNet - Career Advancement for Women - A network for female scientists at the Max Planck Society
    http://www.minerva-femmenet.mpg.de/

    Petersen et al. (2018) Mentoring in a medical faculty: a chance for organisational learning
    Int. J. Learning and Change, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2018

    State Gender Equality Law 
    https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?anw_nr=2&gld_nr=2&ugl_nr=2031&bes_id=4847&aufgehoben=N&menu=1&sg=0 (in German)

    Stritzke, N. Raising awareness of an (un)contentious constellation: health and diversity management as interdependent governance tools
    Springer Article (in German)

    Women in Global Health (2018) Position paper by “Women in Global Health – Germany” on the Federal Government’s Global Health Strategy
    Dokument (in German)

    Women's Gender Research Network North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
    https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/en/the-network/about-us

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