Equal Opportunities

• She promotes equal rights for women and men and takes care to avoid disadvantages for female academics, female teaching staff and female students.
• She is a voting member of all important committees and commissions of the Faculty, in particular the Faculty Board.
• It is a voting member of all appointment committees of the faculty; in doing so, it ensures that no gender-specific disadvantages occur in appointment procedures and that qualified female applicants are adequately considered; it issues its own statement on each appointment procedure.
• It supports the promotion of qualified female academics and early career researchers, particularly in the university's mentoring programme.
• It acts as an expert in connection with the awarding of scholarships (from the Bavarian Programme for the Realisation of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching) to young female academics.
• She has access to funds from the so-called Financial Incentive System (FAS) of the University of Regensburg, which can be used to individually support female academics and early career researchers within the scope of their qualifications.
• She cooperates closely with the University's equal opportunities officer's office (Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities & Family, CHE) and regularly attends meetings with the equal opportunities officers of all other faculties at the University of Regensburg.
• She supports research and teaching activities in the field of gender studies as far as possible.
• She is the contact person in all cases in which relevant problems arise.

Financial support through scholarships and the financial incentive system:

• Scholarships from the Bavarian Programme for the Realisation of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching:
  
  Doctoral degree scholarships, postdoctoral scholarships and habilitation scholarships. Applications are submitted to the equal opportunities officer at the specified time (usually one application deadline per year); the equal opportunities officer writes a statement and decides on the faculty-internal ranking of the applications as chairperson with a faculty-internal scholarship award committee. The final decision on the awarding of scholarships lies with the University Women's Representatives.
  
  More detailed information and the current dates can be found here.
  
• Financial Incentive Scheme for the Promotion of Gender Equality (FAS) at the University of Regensburg:
  
  University management funds can be used to individually support female academics and young female academics at the university within the scope of their qualifications: for example through travel allowances, printing cost subsidies, the purchase of literature, SHK positions, funding for guest lectures, etc.
  
  Further information can be found here.
  
  These funds are allocated on a decentralised basis by the equal opportunities officer.
  
  If you are interested, please send an informal application to the equal opportunities officer
  
• Scholarship for doctoral start-up funding

• 2024: New version of the guidelines for gender-equitable language at the University of Regensburg(Guidelines for gender-equitable language)
• 2020: New version of the equality policy of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Equality Policy 2020)
• 2019: New version of the flyer on gender-equitable language at the University of Regensburg
• 2012: Conceptualisation and anchoring of proposals for gender-equitable language at the University of Regensburg(flyer)
• 2011/2012: The faculty wins the equality prize of the University of Regensburg
• 2008: Conceptualisation and anchoring of the equality policy of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (formerly: Faculty of Arts IV)(Equality Concept 2008)
• 2007/2008: Winner of the Equal Opportunities Award of the University of Regensburg

• Increasing the proportion of female professors
• Career and personnel development for young female academics
• Acquiring female students for subjects in which women are underrepresented
• Improving the compatibility of studies or career and family
• Raising awareness of gender aspects
• Realising equality between women and men in the public sector

Equality begins with addressing people as equals. This is particularly important in a language like German, which always indicates gender.

Here you will find a handout on the topic of gender-appropriate language:
"Gender-appropriate language" (external link, opens in a new window) (PDF document)