Equal opportunities: Dorothea Erxleben Program
The declared objective of the Cluster of Excellence PMI is to promote equal opportunities between women and men in research and in hospitals.
The Dorothea Erxleben Program for Gender Equality covers a large number of structural measures aimed at creating equal opportunities at all levels. These include, among others, bridging financing for highly qualified scientists between funding programs, start-up funds following parental leave and the PMI Research Assistant System for support during pregnancy or parental leave. Doctoral researchers, postdocs and leaders of young researcher groups can apply for funds to, for example, appoint a representative to lead the group temporarily or to fund technical assistance for necessary laboratory work.
Equal opportunity commissioners of the host institutions
The hosts of the cluster actively support gender equality between women and men. Equal opportunity commissioners are the point of contact for matters concerning female scientists:
- Kiel University
- University of Lübeck
- University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein
- Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology
- Forschungszentrum Borstel - Leibniz Lungenzentrum
- Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW Kiel)
- Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
- Muthesius Kunsthochschule
Gender equality measures of the supporting institutions
In addition to the cluster's own measures, the universities and other cluster host institutions offer various equality measures:
- Kiel University:
via:mento - mentoring for female postdocs - Lübeck University:
com.ment III for female physicians and dentists - Research Center Borstel:
Leibniz-Mentoring - Max-Planck-Institute in Plön:
Minerva FemmeNet of the Max Planck Society
