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The OVGU offers its young female scientists (doctoral candidates and postdocs) the opportunity to take a one-hour coaching session with a professional coach for the field of science on 24.3.2020 and 19.05.2020. During the coaching, own questions, regarding career development will be discussed and new impulses will be given. On Coaching Day I, 24.03.2019 you can book an individual coaching session with Kerstin Mauth or Franziska Jantzen, on the second Coaching Day, the 19.05.2020 with Reinhold Haller or with Deborah Ruggieri. Detailed information about the respective coaches as well as the documents for registration can be found here

We are looking forward to your registration!

Boundless professional orientation is the goal of the Girls'Day and Boys'Day Future Days as well as numerous interest groups. The nationwide Career Orientation Day expands the options for girls and boys from grade 5 on for their professional future. They get to know training courses and subjects that are still shaped by gender clichés. On this day, girls go into technology, crafts, industry or IT, boys into social work, health and care as well as day-care centres, primary school or administration. With your offer, you can give girls and boys from grade 5 onwards an important impulse for a varied career and study orientation - free of gender clichés. At present, however, offers for 26 March 2020 are still urgently needed. Now it is up to you: Please use your networks and contacts to advertise companies and institutions for participation in the Future Day and for an entry of the offer in the radar
Offers for girls: https://www.girls-day.de/Radar
Offers for boys:https://www.boys-day.de/Radar

Many thanks for your support!

On the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8, 2020, you are cordially invited to participate in various events in Magdeburg as part of the Women's Action Days:

• From 05 March onwards, the film series "Brave women worldwide" will be shown in the Moritzhof Cultural Centre. more
• On March 7th from 7.30 p.m. the intercultural women's day party will take place at einewelt haus. Further information on this and other events can be found at www.agsa.de
• On March 8th, from 11.00 a.m., there will be a discussion on women's policy/ women in politics in the TC- Theatercafe and on March 12th there will be a reception in the opera house. More information: www.frauen-magdeburg.de
• In the public swimming bath Buckau/Women's Centre Courage exhibitions and readings on the topic of women's rights are held. more
• The Literaturhaus is also participating again with interesting offers, e.g. on March 10th with the reading with Tanja Lang "Meine kleine Großmutter". more
• On March 12th, the state capital of Magdeburg is holding a Women's Day Reception in the opera house for colleagues from the administration/ women's projects and all interested citizens. You can find more information about the event here
• On 17 March, EQUAL PAY DAY will draw attention to the still different wages of women and men and thus the differences in income and pensions. more

Detailed information on the Women's Action Days can be found here

On the occasion of International Women's Day on 8 March 2020, the Bundestag faction Bündnis 90/Die Grünen cordially invites you to a Parliamentary Evening on 10 March in Berlin. The discussion will focus on the staging of femininity, on role models and the empowerment of women on social media. Both influencers and a media expert will be guests and speakers. It is noticeable that femininity on YouTube, Instagram and Co. often comes across as classically traditional: beauty tutorials, fashion, figure and relationship tips. And everything in high gloss. At the same time, new possibilities for self-empowerment are opening up. Influencers use their reach for everyday stories, fashion statements and product placements - but feminist themes are also very popular. They take a stand against misogyny, racism and agitation. Further information on the event and registration information can be found here

In May 2020, the election of the central and decentralised equal opportunities officers of the Otto-von-Guericke University will take place. Let yourself be inspired for the common work and line up for the election of the Equal Opportunities Officer until the end of April 2020!
You would like to ...

• support and help shape a fair university, equal opportunities and gender-sensitive university policy?
• to better understand and participate in decision-making processes?
• gain experience in university self-administration?
• to look beyond your own nose?
• network and show solidarity? 

Then let us choose you and join us in making an equal opportunities university policy for the next two years! Further information on the office of the Equal Opportunities Officer as well as information on the election process can be found on the website of the Office for Equal Opportunities

In January 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW awarded the Science Prize for Gender Research for the first time. Science Minister Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen emphasizes: "The newly created research prize underlines the importance of gender research. The award recognises the scientific and social relevance of gender-related research and promotes the work of high-performing scientists". Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, former President of the Bundestag, emphasizes: "Gender research does away with a multitude of prevailing stereotypes and has an educational function. It deals with conflicts that continue to inhibit gender justice in our society". Dr. Anna Sieben from the Ruhr-University Bochum was honoured for her work in the field of cultural psychology. The second prizewinner, Dr. Heike Mauer, comes from the University of Duisburg-Essen and conducts research in the field of political and social sciences. In the interview, the prizewinners talk about their research. to the interview

The application period for the Dissertation Award 2020 of the AKHFG runs until 1 March 2020: The Dissertation Award of the Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung honours outstanding work in the field of historical women's and gender studies. The prize is endowed with 3000 euros. Previously unpublished dissertations dealing with topics of historical women's and gender studies and which are not older than two years at the time of application may be submitted. Proposals from supervisors are also welcome. Applications should be addressed to the chairperson, PD Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn, at: bundesorganisatio-nakhfg@googlemail.com
All further information on the procedure and also on previous prizewinners can be found here

Until 3 March 2020, outstanding women who have initiated actions, initiatives, projects or similar in the field of sustainable energy can be nominated for the EU Sustainable Energy Awards. Purely academic studies or research projects without any application reference cannot be proposed. The winners will be honoured at a ceremony in Brussels on 23 June 2020. Further information can be found here

As of now, women aged 18 and over who have developed an invention in Germany and/or have filed an application with the German Patent and Trademark Office or the European Patent Office can apply. They can participate:

• Private individuals (female solo inventors)
• Women scientists & professors
• Students & Graduates
• Female team members from research or development teams
• StartUp founders

The women&work female inventor prize is awarded in four categories:

1.  TECHNOLOGY
2. SERVICE & SOCIAL
3. BUSINESS MODEL & ORGANIZATION
4. special price: HUMANISM 4.0

The award ceremony will take place on 9 May at the "women&work" trade fair in Frankfurt. You can find further information on the Inventor's Prize at www.Erfinderinnenpreis.de

The European Commission wants to promote women-led enterprises in order to contribute to gender equality in the European innovation ecosystem. For the submission deadlines of 19 May and 7 October 2020 of the EIC Accelerator pilot action, special conditions therefore apply to women-led SMEs: they should account for 25% of the projects invited to Brussels for personal interviews. For more information on the EIC Pilot Accelerator, please contact the National Contact Point for EU Horizon 2020 programme or click here

Since 2019 Berlin has a new holiday: Women's Day on 8 March. 100 years after the introduction of women's voting rights, the Berlin House of Representatives has thus set a very special example of gender equality in all areas of our society. Against this background, the Europa-Union Berlin e.V., in cooperation with the network of prizewinners of the "Prize Women of Europe" and the Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V., would like to invite you to an inspiring evening of discussion. During the evening, strong women will be presented who are closely connected with the European integration process and who, as active Europeans, are creative and persistent in their efforts to strengthen the European idea. Please register by mail: mail@europa-union-berlin.de

For the seventh time, the Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in the STEM area ISINA will take place at Chemnitz University of Technology from 30 to 31 March 2020. The event primarily serves the professional and interdisciplinary exchange between scientific and technical subjects. Top-class experts from science and business as well as young female scientists and students from the STEM fields can network with each other and establish promising cooperation. The closing date for applications is 20 March 2020. Information on the programme and registration can be found here

On April 3, 2020, the meeting of the nationwide "Network Gender and Diversity in Teaching" will take place at the Martin Luther University Halle. The meeting of the autonomous network serves primarily for the exchange of information as well as for cooperation on content and strategy. The meeting will offer working groups on various topics, such as gender and diversity-conscious didactics and methodology, subject-specific and interdisciplinary curricula and research on gender and diversity in teaching. In this summer semester 2020 the project gender*bildet of the Martin-Luther-University is pleased to be the host.
If you are interested in participating, please contact gender.bildet@uni-halle.de

Not only WHAT woman says is important, but also HOW woman says it. We send many signals without being aware of them. This seminar shows you how to send clear non-verbal and verbal messages, how to get across personally and how to communicate your content convincingly. You will learn how to avoid "woman-typical" problems when speaking in front of groups or at work and how you can react spontaneously and confidently to counter-arguments. Registration is only possible by e-mail at: anmeldung@boell-sachsen-anhalt.de
Further information on the event can be found on the website

Hashtags like #MeToo bring it into the collective consciousness: Sexualised discrimination and violence is still a current, but often taboo subject. It can occur in all areas of society - scientific institutions as places of study and work are not exempt from it and are therefore obliged to actively counter discrimination and sexual harassment and violence in their spatial and cultural infrastructure. In a two-day symposium, the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg would like to illuminate this complex and important topic with you in view of all people working at a scientific institution. Legal frameworks, gaps in protection, as well as duties and possibilities for action will be discussed and space for the exchange of experiences will be created. The symposium is thus aimed equally at students, management, administration, lecturers and researchers and aims to encourage and enable (pro-)active and secure action by those involved. You can find further information here

The CEWS (Center of Excellence Women and Science) turns 20 years old! Since 2000, the Center of Excellence has been working to bring more gender equality into the German science and research landscape, since 2006 as part of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne. On the occasion of the international UN Day of Women and Girls in Science, Sandra Beaufaÿs spoke with the director Jutta Dalhoff about the fine line between scientific analysis and policy advice. The complete interview can be found here

At the request of Hamburg's Senator for Science and Research Katharina Fegebank (Greens), the Science Council will evaluate the gender studies represented at various universities. This was confirmed by the newly elected chairperson of the committee, Professor Dorothea Wagner, upon request at a press conference in Berlin on 3 February. more

The language scientists choose to describe their discoveries can increase the level of attention of colleagues, encourage subsequent citations and possibly facilitate career advancement. Male scientists use words like "excellent", "novel" and "unique" in the headlines and summaries of their articles much more often than women. These are the results of a study conducted by an international team of researchers from the University of Mannheim, Harvard Medical School and Yale University and published in the BMJ journal. "Differences in how women present their research achievements compared to men could contribute to the persistent discrimination of female scientists," said Assistant Professor Marc Lerchenmüller from the University of Mannheim, who headed the study. The large-scale study, which quantifies gender-specific differences in the language used in biomedical research, is the first of its kind. Detailed information on the study and other up-to-date information on women in science and research can be found in the current issue of the CEWS Journal here

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