All partner institutions of the SFB-TRR 161 offer a wide variety of consulting and support services to ensure gender equality and diversity across all stages of academia. Ranging from childcare offers over networks, mentoring, seminars and workshops to scholarship programs and other forms of financial support, the gender equality and diversity strategies of the participating universities create the framework for a climate of equal opportunity and lived diversity.

For detailed information about the structures and measures provided by the participating universities, please select one of the institutions below.

Based on those structures provided by the participating universities, the SFB-TRR 161 implements its own measures and services to support members with infants and to increase the ratio of female researchers in visual computing:


Childcare

Our goal is to make it easier for members of the SFB-TRR 161 and its graduate school who are parents of infants to conduct their research and attend meetings and seminars of the SFB-TRR 161. Therefore, we support them financially and organizationally in finding childcare for their infants. In cooperation with the family and gender services of our universities, we offer them regular places in daycare and partially fund them. Additionally, the SFB-TRR 161 organizes short-term childcare during conferences and other meetings or during vacation time.


Career support for women and girls

To increase the ratio of female academics in visual computing and the interest of women and girls in our research fields in general, we implement measures at different levels. To motivate young women to study computer science or similar subjects, we participate in and organize career orientation events such as the “Girls’ Day” or programming courses. At the doctoral level, we offer young female researchers mentoring help from international researchers in cooperation with the MEiN program at the University of Konstanz. Extensive support for doctoral researchers is also provided within the framework of our Graduate School. Furthermore, we organize and support workshops and talks for women from the participating universities and the visual computing community at large, such as discussion rounds with successful researchers from the area of visual computing.

 

For more information about support structures and activities, feel free to contact our Equal Opportunity and Diversity Representatives.

Pooling Workshops

The Pooling of the University of Stuttgart offers several workshops for female researchers and principal investigators. Members from all sites of the SFB-TRR 161 are invited to participate.

Girls' Day

The SFB-TRR 161 regularly participates in the national vocational orientation day for girls from grade 5 upwards. The next Girls' Day will take place on April 3, 2025.

Event Archive

Programmierkurs

From July 22 to 24, 2024, our programming course for girls from grade 7 upwards took place in Konstanz. Together with retired teacher Thomas Ningelgen, our four participants learned how to create colorful graphics and simple animations using the Processing editor. Read more about the course on our Visual Computing Blog.

WiC 3

Our third Workshop on Women* in Computing took place on July 4, 2024, in Munich. Once again, the workshop was a hihgly successful event which brought together many young researchers - this time under the motto of the financial aspects of a career in computing. A blog entry about the event will be available soon!

Fireside Chat Tory

On July 1, 2024, the SFB-TRR 161 hosted a Fireside Chat together with SimTech and IntCDC. Aim of the event was to bring successful female researchers from different levels of academia together and talk about different challenges of an academic career. Special guest at the event was Prof. Melanie Tory, director of human data interaction research at the Roux Institute. View photos of the event on the SimTech website

2nd Women in Computing Workshop

After last year's successful event, the second workshop on Women* in Computing took place in Konstanz on June 22, 2023. A report is available on our Visual Computing Blog.

Women in Computing - Equal Opportunity
October 25, 2022 | University of Stuttgart

This one-day workshop highlighted the research opportunities and career paths for excellent female researchers in the field of visual computing and human-computer interaction. Twenty-nine participants from eleven institutions shared their tips for navigating a successful career in computing. Read more in the workshop report.

On December 14, 2021, the SFB-TRR 161 funded a screening of the short film Ada (2019). A video of the accompanying talk by mathematician Sebastian Krapp and the discussion with the film's director and leading actress is available on the website of Uni Konstanz.

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Out with it - Equal Opportunity
June 28, 2022 | University of Stuttgart

The SFB-TRR 161 invited female researchers to a speech, voice and body language training with Katharina Padleschat.

Aya Jaff Talk - Equal Opportunity

In 2017, Aya Jaff and Anja Ziemer visited the SFB-TRR 161 to talk about their successful careers in the male domain of computer science. A video of their talks is available from the website of the University of Konstanz.

... find more of our activities in our past events section!