Offers according to career level

As part of the implementation of the University Contract 2023-2027, the University Equal Opportunities Officer for Women in Science and Art at the University of Regensburg is launching a programme for newly appointed female professors and newly elected female functionaries in academic self-administration to promote the acquisition of additional skills and professionalisation in the areas of self-organisation, research management, personnel management and professional networking.

Further information can be found here:

Contact:

Katja von Poschinger

Phone +49 941 943-3581

chancengleichheit@ur.de

Here we would like to refer you to the relevant specialist centre: more ... (external link, opens in a new window)

The University of Regensburg is a member of the Dual Career Network Northern Bavaria (DCNN) (external link, opens in a new window) and supports dual-career couples in continuing their careers and private integration in the Regensburg area and the region of Northern Bavaria.

Our services are aimed at newly appointed professors and managers and their respective partners.

Contact at the UR (external link, opens in a new window)

Female professors at the University of Regensburg can be fully covered by a substitute professorship (as an employee) in the semester in which they have a child, regardless of whether they take parental leave.

Female professors who find themselves in this situation can contact the Equal Opportunities Coordination Office at any time (contact Katja von Poschinger | chancengleichheit@ur.de | 0941 943-3581).

The following institutions offer programmes to raise awareness of gender issues in appointment committees:

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg:
  Online tutorial "Gender-sensitive appointment procedures and personnel selection at FAU"
  Link: https: //www.gender-und-diversity.fau.de/gender/geschlechter-sensibilisierung/gender-bias-online-tutorial/
  
• Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg:
  Gender-sensitive appointment procedures and personnel selection at FAU
  Link: https: //www.studon.fau.de/studon_register_Q5h6ykcU7c
  
• University of Heidelberg:
  Online tutorial on gender bias in the appointment process,
  Link: https: //www.uni-heidelberg.de/gleichstellungsbeauftragte/karriere/
  onlinetutorial_genderbias.html
  
• Technical University of Munich, FührMINT Gender Decoder - online tool for gender-fair job adverts; Link: https: //genderdecoder.wi.tum.de/
  

Here you will find further documents on the topic of appointment practice --> (external link, opens in a new window)

Especially in a research-intensive comprehensive university with an affiliated University Hospital, it is clear that female academics have very different goals in mind during the qualification phase. For this reason, the UR is expanding individual support for female researchers at the UR below the permanent professorship level along the central topic areas defined in the Federal Report on Early Career Researchers 2021.

The topics are defined as follows

• Planning the academic career
• Working and employment conditions
• Internationalisation
• Quality assurance of the academic career
• Equal opportunities
• Compatibility of family and academic career.

For the inhomogeneous group of female scientists on the qualification path from doctoral candidate to private lecturer, the counselling and support instruments are differentiated with regard to the respective department, the different phases of the respective qualification level and the respective job and funding situation.

Read more in the equality policy 2023-2027 (external link, opens in a new window) or take a look at the existing measures for female scientists on the qualification path... (external link, opens in a new window)

To raise the profile of female academics on the UR qualification path for an academic career, additional material and travel allowances as well as funding for auxiliary staff will be made available until 31 December 2027.

Target group

Female postdoctoral researchers, habilitation candidates, private lecturers at the UR with fixed-term contracts, W1 professors and advanced female doctoral candidates from faculties in which the average proportion of female doctorates over the past four years has been below 50 per cent (for applications in 2025: Faculty of Business, Economics, Law, PKGG, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry/Pharmacy).

Benefits

Grants for material and travelling expenses as well as allowances for research assistants who contribute to raising the profile of the academic career and for whom no other funding is possible.

Applications can be submitted on an ongoing basis

You can find the guidelines for the material and travel expenses programme (external link, opens in a new window) here:

Contact for queries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program)| Phone 0941 943-3581

 

The University of Regensburg (UR) is offering scholarships until 31.12.2027 to fund research stays abroad and to promote mobility and Internationalization in order to specifically support female scientists on their qualification path.

The cross-faculty programme serves to finance longer-term, in-depth research trips abroad or stays abroad for the further qualification and international networking of female academics in the qualification phase. This programme is intended to support highly qualified female academics in their career as university lecturers by integrating them into the international academic network. The mobility scholarship is a university-wide structural measure to promote equal opportunities for women in science.

Here you can find the guidelines for the international mobility grant. (external link, opens in a new window)

Application deadline:

• 1.11.2025
  Contact for queries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit​(at)​ur.de | Phone 0941 943-3581

In order to promote equal opportunities at the University of Regensburg, the university management has provided the University Equal Opportunities Officer for Women in Science and Art with annual funding since 1999 as part of the Financial Incentive Scheme for the Promotion of Gender Equality (FAS-G).

On the one hand, this is intended to support female academics on the university 's qualification path and, on the other, to honour the progress made by the faculties in fulfilling the gender equality mandate. These funds are distributed to the university's twelve faculties. The allocation is based on a specific distribution key that takes into account the performance of the faculties with regard to the promotion of women in the previous calendar or academic year. This decentralised allocation of funds offers the opportunity to take greater account of the (subject-specific) needs of the individual faculties. The allocation mode in the individual faculties is the responsibility of the respective Faculty Equal Opportunities Officers.

Funding opportunities include, for example

• SHK or WHK positions for young female academics
• Start-up funding for doctorates
• Doctoral, postdoctoral or habilitation scholarships
• Travel grants for scientific trips
• Information events outside the university on individual degree programmes
• Procurement of literature and software
• Printing cost subsidies
• Support for guest lectures by female researchers or invitations from cooperation partners by female academics from the UR
• Continuing education programmes
• Measures of the faculties' equality policies
• Translation costs for publications

Contact: the respective faculty equal opportunities officers (external link, opens in a new window)

More information can be found here in the guidelines for the Financial Incentive System for the Promotion of Gender Equality (FAS-G) | as of 04.05.2023 (external link, opens in a new window), pdf file, 128 KB - only available in the university network.

The University of Regensburg (UR) provides financial support in the form of a so-called maternity protection bridging allowance to bridge the legally prescribed employment bans for expectant and nursing mothers within the meaning of the maternity protection regulations (MuSchG and UrlMV).

The maternity protection bridging allowance is used for academic staff

1. to compensate for the loss of teaching and research or restrictions on these due to the protection periods before and after childbirth, if it is not possible to fully replace the pregnant woman or mother (usually in the case of civil servants or certain third-party funded projects),
2. the financing of personnel support for individual employment bans during pregnancy or to support the experimental laboratory work of pregnant women,
3. financial security for scholarship holders if the scholarship provider does not provide funding for maternity protection periods.

The guidelines with information on how to apply for the maternity protection bridging allowance (external link, opens in a new window)are available internally at (external link, opens in a new window)(pdf file, 42 KB).

Contact for queries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program)| Phone 0941 943-3581

The proportion of female students at the UR as a whole has stabilised at around 60 percent in recent years. This above-average figure is due on the one hand to the wide range of subjects and the relatively high number of teacher training programs, and on the other to the University's attractive degree programmes.

Not only numbers are important, but above all content, attention and awareness.

Since winter semester 2019/20, students of all subjects and faculties at the UR have been able to acquire knowledge and competence on gender, sex/gender distinctions, social and historical aspects of gender relations, current and practice-relevant knowledge in the minor degree programme"Gender Competence" (external link, opens in a new window).

Here we would like to refer you to the relevant specialist centre: more ... (external link, opens in a new window)

Since the summer semester of 2018, the RegensburgEXZELLENZ network has been established for female students at OTH Regensburg, the University of Regensburg and the Regensburg University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education.

The cross-university and cross-faculty network of outstanding female students can only be joined by invitation.

The term "excellence" covers outstanding academic achievements as well as special commitment within and outside the university or college. The students are not only characterised by outstanding grades, but also by the fact that they are expected to take on responsibility in the future.

The heads of the faculties at the three universities nominated female students in March/April 2018, August/September 2019, January 2021 and October 2022 - 2025. Over 100 female students from various disciplines at the three universities have been accepted into the network so far.

Dates to date

Project management UR

Prof. Dr Miriam Banas, Deputy University Equal Opportunities Officer for Women in Science and Art| chancengleichheit​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program)

Project management OTH

Prof. Dr Nina Leffers, Deputy University Women's Representative
Link to the information on the OTH Regensburg website (external link, opens in a new window)

Project management HfKM

Christine Lindermeier, University Women's Representative
Link to the HfKM website (external link, opens in a new window)