Proactive appointment policy at FAU
FAU is particularly keen to ensure that gender mainstreaming is taken into consideration during appointment procedures. The following measures have been implemented so far:
On December 15, 2010, the Executive Board approved the Guidelines for appointments at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Appointment procedures for university professors and assistant professors under particular consideration of aspects of gender and diversity”, which are continuously being developed and adapted. We aim to act consistently and systematically to make gender and diversity an integral part of all steps in our appointment procedures.
Relevant informations can be found in the document Quality assurance in appointment procedures (PDF).
The University is particularly keen to ensure that gender mainstreaming is taken into consideration during appointment procedures and has thus taken the appropriate steps.
One key aspect of FAU’s appointment procedure is taking a proactive approach and actively recruiting female professors. In addition to the Guidelines for appointments, the Executive Board of the University passed a revised version of the Guidelines on recruiting female professors on May 24, 2017 (German Version only).
The body with the authority to make decisions in the appointment procedure is the appointment committee. It assesses the subject-related and personal skills of candidates and must make a transparent and unprejudiced selection. Gender balance and gender equality must be considered and implemented with a view to increasing the proportion of female professors at FAU. The currently valid version of the Guidelines for appointments forms the basis for appointment procedures at FAU.
The women’s representatives in the appointment committee are entitled and obliged to ensure and demand a gender-sensitive assessment of female candidates.
During the entire procedure, the women’s representatives can turn to the reporting officers, the President, the university women’s representatives and Appointments and Appointment Procedures (S-Ber) for help or advice.
Below you will find a handout for women’s representatives in appointment committees (PDF) that contains further information.
Interdisciplinary databases
- FemConsult . Die Wissenschaftlerinnen-Datenbank: Information portal and database. Current qualification profiles of more than 3000 female researchers with doctoral degrees and habilitations in German-speaking countries.
- Database of women holding a postdoctoral academic qualification (Austria): Send a copy of the call for applications to akgl(at)uni-graz.at when vacancies arise
- Datenbank des Margarete von Wrangell-Habilitationsprogramm für Frauen: Scholarship program for excellent female researchers, database of former scholarship holders
- DIVERSITEC (Austria): Users can search via partner networks/LinkedIn, focus on science and technology
- Femdat female expert database (Switzerland): Network for companies and women for entry level positions, higher level positions and career changes with expertise, network and advice
Subject-related databases
- Women’s Engineering Society: Network of female engineers
- Clio-online Datenbank ForscherInnen für Geschichtswissenschaften: Database of female researchers of history
- German Association of Women Engineers: Network, projects, job portal
- German Medical Women’s Association: Forum for networking, careers, representative body of female physicians in Germany
Databases aimed at specific target groups
- Vielfaltfinder: Database of experts and research tool for media professionals
Searches via academic societies
- DFG contacts for academic societies
- Working Group on Equal Opportunities (AKC) of the German Physical Society
Academic prizes as suggestions
(Prizes awarded exclusively to women)
- Helene Lange prize for women in research and science
- Bertha Benz prize for engineering
- L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
- Hertha Sponer award for female physicists
Other
- European Platform of Women Scientists: European network of female researchers
The tutorial is an hour long online course on the StudOn platform aimed at raising awareness of (unconscious) gender biases and how they affect staffing decisions. The course is predominantly aimed at members of appointment committees and managers at FAU. It can, however, also be accessed by anyone interested in the topic, whether they are members of FAU or not. Further information and how to access the course is available on this website.