Equal Opportunity and Diversity

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.