Aim to strengthen equality
As one of 92 universities, TU Hamburg suceeds in the first selection round of the "Female Professors Program 2030"
28.02.2024
More female professors for Hamburg University of Technology: up to three new positions for first-time female professors can be created and funded here as part of the nationwide "Female Professors Program 2030". This was recently announced by the founding Joint Science Conference (GWK).
About the program
In the GWK, the Federal Government and the Länder deal with all issues of science and research policy strategies, science funding and the science system that affect them jointly. Its members are the science ministers and finance ministers of the federal and state governments. The Female Professors Program was launched for the first time in 2008, the year the GWK was founded. The aim of the funding program is to dynamically increase the number of female professors towards parity, to promote (junior) female scientists and artists on the path to a lifetime professorship and to retain them in academia, as well as to anchor gender equality even more firmly in the structure of universities. This is intended to sustainably strengthen the necessary structural and cultural change towards greater gender equality at universities.
About the current funding period
92 out of a total of 108 concepts submitted in the first selection round in February were evaluated positively in their gender equality policy goals, structures and measures. They now have the opportunity to submit applications for up to three start-up grants for the initial appointment of women to permanent W2 or W3 professorships from now until September 30th, 2025. In addition to the Hamburg University of Techology, the University of Hamburg and the University Medical Center Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg were also positively evaluated. The federal and state governments are providing a total of 320 million euros over eight years for the "Professorinnenprogramm 2030".
Andreas Timm-Giel, President of TU Hamburg: "We are delighted that our gender equality concept has been positively evaluated and are continuing to work on increasing the proportion of female professors. The "Professorinnenprogramm 2030" supports us, for example, in appointing qualified female applicants to professorships through early reappointments."
TUHH - Public Relations Office
Kaja Weber
E-Mail: kaja.weber@tuhh.de
