Gender Equality at the Mechanical Engineering Department

Welcome to the website of gender equality at the department of mechanical and process engineering. You can find out more about current offerings from the Equal Opportunites Team and the work being done on the topic of equality at the department.

News of the Equal Opportunities Team

Successor sought for equal opportunity team

Successors are being sought to serve the two-year term of the Equal Opportunity Officers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. If you are interested or have any questions, please contact the current at any time.

KidsBoxes at the Faculty

Whether it's getting used to a daycare center, cancelled care or a sick child – in order to be able to organize the workday with a child more flexibly, the Department of Mechanical Engineering offers the possibility to borrow a KidsBox. The KidsBoxes can be borrowed and used by all employees and students of FB 16 and were procured by the Clean Circles project.

All necessary information and links can be found here.

Gender appropriate language

The TU Darmstadt has created a handout on gender-sensitive language. The document can be downloaded in the download area of this page. More information can be found on the page of the on the Gender Equality Office's website.

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Funding is awarded after individual review by the Equal Opportunity Working Group. At the department of Mechanical Engineering, the following measures in particular are funded:

  • Women-specific training events
  • Grants/coverage of travel expenses for participation in programs for the advancement of women (e.g. Mentoring Hessen: ProCareer.MINT, ProCareer.Doc, ProAcademia, ProProfessur. etc.)
  • Events for the networking and advancement of women at the department.
  • Advertising measures and projects to increase the proportion of women in the study program
  • Gender awareness training for men and women

Measures for groups are preferred over individual support.

If the funding measure is a trip, the settlement of the costs should be made as soon as possible, as travel expenses are only reimbursed up to six months after completion of the trip. Please use our request for reimbursement form for this purpose. Please also adhere to the following guidelines so that your request for reimbursement can be processed as quickly as possible:

  • Attach only original receipts to your application, copied receipts will not be accepted.
  • If you wish to be reimbursed for travel expenses by car, the exact address of the destination must be provided.

The Gender Equality Officeroffers many other support programs.

Information

For prospective students

For (post-)doctoral students

For employees

For professors

There are also the following offers at TU Darmstadt:

SekretariaNet – Initiative of female employees at TU Darmstadt

Balance sport for women – Unisport Zentrum

Program for Master students (opens in new tab) at the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 75 (Droplet dynamic processes under extreme environmental conditions)

The Working Group Equality meets every 6 weeks and consists of members of all status groups of the department. Here, for example, events on equality are planned and funding applications are approved. If you are interested in participating, you can contact the Equal Opportunities Team.

The Equal Opportunity Officers promote equality at the department and provide support when conflicts arise. In addition, they organize workshops on the advancement of women and networking meetings, are advisory members of committees (departmental council, appointment committees and hiring procedures), develop the equal opportunity concept and measures to recruit female students.