Award for outstanding commitment by young female scientists at FIDS
The FIDS is offering an award for outstanding commitment by young female researchers. The award recognizes outstanding commitment to academic self-administration or teaching that benefits the entire faculty.
Requirements: Applicants must be young female researchers at the FIDS who are aiming for a professorship. Female professors are excluded from funding.
Prize money: €300 for individual funding and €250 each for double funding.
The full announcement can be found here and our poster here.
Financial incentive system to promote equality
In order to promote equal opportunities at the University of Regensburg, the university management provides the university's women's representative with annual funding for the faculties as part of the “Financial Incentive System for Promoting Equality.”
The aim is to support young female researchers at the university and to reward the faculties for their progress in fulfilling their equality mandate. This decentralized allocation of funds makes it possible to take greater account of the (subject-specific) needs of the individual faculties.
Restrictions of the FIDS:
- Support for young female researchers at the UR Support for the implementation of the FIDS's equality concept
Funding opportunities include, for example:
- Start-up, bridging, and completion funding for doctoral theses, travel allowances for participation in and organization of conference trips, workshops, and conferences
- Information events outside the university
- Purchase of literature and software
- Printing cost subsidies for doctoral or postdoctoral theses or other publications
- Support for guest lectures by female scientists from outside the UR or invitations to cooperation partners by female scientists from the UR
- Further training
- Measures of the FIDS equality concepts
- Additional material resources, provided they are related to scientific work
Funding of up to €750 is possible. First-time applications are given preference.
Next application deadline: Fall 2025
In exceptional cases, applications outside the application periods may also be considered. To do so, please register by email (frauenbeauftragte.fids@uni-regensburg.de).
More information can be found in the guidelines on the financial incentive system for promoting equality at FIDS.
Interested parties should send the application form (opens in a new window) to the official email address of the faculty women's representative.
Please use our billing form (opens in a new window) for billing purposes.
Stays abroad
We would like to support you in realizing a stay abroad during or after your doctoral studies. Our compilation includes the most important study foundations and funding opportunities for a stay abroad, which we have compiled for you in a document (external link, opens in a new window). In addition to traditional scholarships, we have also included useful links for advice and networking. Furthermore, we have linked databases to facilitate independent research.
The University of Regensburg also provides information here (external link, opens in a new window) about possible stays abroad for research assistants.
Virtual lunch break of the Motherhood & Science Network
Since February 2023, the University of Regensburg has been part of the supraregional network Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft (Motherhood and Science). The local group is currently being established and always welcomes new networkers and interested parties who would like to exchange ideas and network with each other. The group is aimed at mothers in science at all career levels and allies who are committed to promoting the compatibility of family and career in the scientific community.
If you would like to be added to the local network mailing list to receive non-binding information about upcoming local events, register for an event, or have any questions, suggestions, or requests, please feel free to contact us at any time using the contact details below.
If you are interested, please contact Anna Theresa Wolferstetter (Anna-Theresa.Wolferstetter(at)ur.de (opens your email program)).
Further information can be found here. (external link, opens in a new window)
Center for the Promotion of Young Scientists
The Center for the Promotion of Young Researchers is the interdisciplinary platform for promoting and training young researchers at the University of Regensburg.
Here (external link, opens in a new window) you will find information and opportunities for researchers from all faculties who are pursuing further academic qualifications through doctoral studies or postdoctoral research activities at the University of Regensburg.
CoMeNt.UR
The CoMeNT.UR program (external link, opens in a new window) offers female scientists pursuing qualifications at the University of Regensburg a wide range of individual personnel development measures between 2022 and 2024.
The components of coaching, mentoring, networking, and training are designed to support female scientists in the early stages of their careers on their path to leadership positions in science or other professional fields.
Mentoring.UR
The MENTORING.UR program (external link, opens in a new window) is interdisciplinary, individualized, and needs-oriented. Its goal is to support outstanding women in their career and personal development on their path to leadership positions within or outside academia.
Allowances for expenses and travel costs
Facts | In order to expand the academic profile of young female scientists at UR, additional funds are being made available for travel expenses, materials, and assistants.
Eligible applicants | Postdocs, postdoctoral lecturers, UR lecturers with fixed-term contracts or scholarships, and current mentees in the Mentoring.UR program are eligible to apply. Postdocs with third-party funding contracts must prove that they are pursuing an academic qualification at UR. Doctoral students are eligible for funding but do not have priority in the selection process.
Funding | Grants for assistants, travel expenses, and materials to support young female scientists who have no other funding options for expanding their scientific profile.
Applications can be submitted on an ongoing basis.
The full call for applications can be found here. (external link, opens in a new window)
Contact for inquiries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit(at)ur.de (opens your email program) | Phone 0941 943-3581
Maternity leave bridging allowance
To bridge the legally prescribed employment bans for expectant and nursing mothers within the meaning of the Maternity Protection Act, the University of Regensburg provides financial support in the form of a so-called maternity protection bridging allowance as part of the funding provided by the Federal and State Professors Program II.
The maternity protection bridging allowance serves
- to provide financial security for scholarship holders if the scholarship provider does not provide funding for maternity leave;
- to compensate for the loss of teaching due to pregnancy/maternity leave by providing financial resources;
- to finance research assistants to support the experimental laboratory work of pregnant women who are affected by employment bans.
The faculty women's representative will cast her vote on this matter.
The guidelines with information on applying for the maternity leave bridging allowance are available internally at the university here. (external link, opens in a new window)
Contact for inquiries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit(at)ur.de (opens your email program) | Phone 0941 943-3581
Program for the realization of equal opportunities for women in research and teaching
In order to promote equal opportunities for women in research and teaching, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts is expected to provide funding for the “Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching” again in 2023. The funds are intended to support highly qualified young female scientists on their way to becoming professors and are to be used to cover the scientists' living expenses. The scholarship rates and the basic funding guidelines are determined by the State Conference of Women's Representatives at Bavarian Universities.
The University of Regensburg is expanding this program with additional and supplementary funding as part of the additional gender equality measures of the Federal and State Professoress Program III.
Here (external link, opens in a new window) you will find information on the current call for applications and the funding guidelines (external link, opens in a new window).
You can find more information here (external link, opens in a new window).
CyberMentor
CyberMentor is Germany's largest online mentoring program for girls in STEM. Up to 800 female students in grades 5 through 13 are accompanied by a personal mentor on a voluntary basis for one year. As a role model, the mentor encourages STEM activities and provides advice on choosing a course of study and career.
Mentoring takes place via a secure online platform with email, chat, and forum, and is supported by a wide range of information on STEM, studying, and career choices. The mentoring year starts in October, but registrations are always possible online via the CyberMentor website.
As students of the Faculty of Computer Science and Data Science, you are very welcome to become mentors. Help inspire girls to get involved in this exciting field and promote the next generation of STEM girls.
Project management at the UR: Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stöger, Chair of Education (School Education) at the UR
All information about CyberMentor can be found here (external link, opens in a new window).
External offers
German Informatics Society (GI)
With around 20,000 individual and 250 corporate members, the German Informatics Society (GI) is the largest and most important professional association for computer science in the German-speaking world. Since 1969, it has represented the interests of computer scientists in science, business, public administration, society, and politics. With specialist areas, regional groups, and countless specialist groups, the GI is a platform and mouthpiece for all disciplines in computer science.
Further information on GI can be found here (external link, opens in a new window).
GI Special Interest Group on Women and Computer Science
The IT Section is committed to equal participation of women in information technology, genuine equal opportunities in professional life in terms of salary, career, and working conditions, and raising awareness of the high level of competence of female IT professionals in the professional world and among the general public. As role models, they aim to spark the interest of girls and young women in computer science. They offer opportunities for networking and provide information relevant to women.
Further funding opportunities
The ELFI research database contains over 11,000 research funding programs from around 4,900 national and international funding agencies. This database is updated weekly and allows users to filter results by research topic, type of funding, or region. Scholarships for students are also included in this database.
The University of Regensburg has subscribed to this database and makes it available to its researchers free of charge via the university network:www.elfi.info (external link, opens in a new window) .