Funding Opportunities for Women in Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine has set itself the goal of equalizing gender inequality. The aim is to sustainably increase the proportion of female professors in the long term and to support female scientists early on in their careers. Despite considerable momentum in the last five years (2019-2023: Increase in the proportion of female professors from under 14% to over 24%), the proportion of female professors is still far too low.
On this page you will find offers for women from the faculty, the university and also from external providers. If you have any questions, please contact the Vice Dean's Office for Academic Development and Equal Opportunities.
Offers and initiatives at the Faculty of Medicine
In order to counteract the dropout of women after their doctorate, the Faculty of Medicine set up various support programs in the last term of office (4/2019-4/2023) under the leadership of the Vice Dean's Office for Academic Development and Equal Opportunities, with which the female scientific and medical staff of the Faculty of Medicine are supported at various qualification levels - especially after completing their doctorate and habilitation.
- Target group: Systematically academically active female doctors who are pursuing the goal of a university professorship
- Individual contact with a professor (mentor) from your own specialist field
- Target group: Post-doctoral female scientists in all medical disciplines who are pursuing the goal of a university professorship
- Individual coaching sessions in which specific paths to a university professorship are discussed
- Target group: Researching female doctors in the post-doc phase
- Time relief or research stay abroad
- Target groups: Female early career researchers with the aim of completing a habilitation and female project leaders
- Provision of material, investment and personnel resources for the implementation of a habilitation project
- Pregnancy replacements and family support for the continuation of a third-party funded project
Funding opportunities and initiatives at the University
Gender Mentoring Agency
- Target group: Female students or doctoral candidates from all faculties who are planning to work in academia after their doctorate
- One-year program with contact to professionally experienced mentors, further training opportunities, network meetings and conference scholarships
- Further information
Cornelia Harte Mentoring
- Target group: Women on their career path in business, science, research and industry
- Various program branches and modules such as one-to-one mentoring, workshops, coaching and networking
- Further information
IFS Mentoring: Mentoring Program for International Female Scholars
- Target group: International postdocs and advanced doctoral candidates
- English framework program with one-to-one mentoring in the desired field of work as well as workshops, networking events and individual coaching sessions if required
- Further information
GenderConsulting: Gender Equality in DFG funded Research Networks
- Support and advice during application, review and during the term of the research network
- Further information
Female Professors Program I-III
- Program to increase the number of female professors and strengthen gender equality structures
- Further information
Female Career Programme | Career development for study and work
- Target group: Female students, doctoral candidates, postdocs and other female employees who want to pursue a career in science or prepare for the non-university job market
- Workshops on career planning, (self-)presentation and communication
- Further information
Management Program for Female Professors & Female Executives
- Target group: female professors (W1 - W3), (prospective) female managers from science, science management, technology & administration
- Teaching basic skills for mastering complex leadership and management tasks, taking gender-sensitive aspects into accountFurther information
External funding opportunities and initiatives
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Foundation
- Scholarships for female scientists with child(ren) in the natural sciences and medicine
- Further information
Lóreal-Unesco for Women in Science
- Prizes for outstanding female scientists and research grants for young female scientists
- Further information
Robert-Bosch-Foundation
Deutscher Akademikerinnen Bund e.V.
Maecenia-Foundation for women in science, art and culture