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Ada-Lovelace-Mentoring The non-profit organisation was founded in 2001. It aims at initiating and strengthening mentoring strategies, networking with schools, universities, research institutions, employers’ association, engineering councils and industry, enhancing the number of women in senior management and policy-making bodies and mainstreaming gender at national and European level. http://www.ada-mentoring.de/ Arbeitskreis Frauen in Forschungszentren (AKFIFZ) der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft / Research Group Women in Research Centres from the Helmholtz Association The Helmholtz Association is a community of 15 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centres, which aims to contribute to solving the grand challenges that society faces in the fields of energy, earth and environment, health, key technologies, structure of matter, and transport and space. Helmholtz believes that failure to tap into and to maximise the reserves of scientific potential in women is something that no research organisation aiming to achieve top-rate results can afford to do and therefore, the Research Group Women in Research Centres has been created. http://www.helmholtz.de/en/working_at_helmholtz/equal_opportunity/ Bundeskonferenz der Frauenbeauftragten und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Hochschulen (BuKoF) / Federal Conference of Gender Equality Officers in Higher Education in Germany  Founded in 1989, BuKoF is the association of all gender equality officers in higher education. In this framework, members cooperate, exchange experiences and develop policy strategies concerning gender equality in all types of higher education institutions. The focus is on programmes and strategies to increase female representation among students, professors and other faculty positions.http://www.bukof.de/ CEWS - Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung e.V. / Women in Science and Research The registered association CEWS was founded to support the work of the Center of Excellence Women and Science CEWS. CEWS is the national node for the realisation of equal opportunities for women and men in the area of science and research in Germany. CEWS serves as think tank for this field of policy, stimulates thinking, initiates alteration processes for which it provides scientific support, and actively co-organises the required transfer processes between science and politics. The scope of its activities is international: the Center implements German and EU projects both on an independent basis and in cooperation with other partners, and furthermore network best practice measures for the enforcement of equal opportunities on a high level. http://www.cews.org/cews/index.php Das gemeinsame Frauenforschungszentrum der Hessischen Fachhochschulen  (GFFZ) / Joint Women Study Centre of Hessian Universities of Applied SciencesThe goals of GFFZ are to implement and support women and gender studies research at the Hessian Universities of Applied Sciences, to assist research projects, to create and support a network of scholars and students of women and gender studies at Hessian universities of applied sciences, to support the universities of applied sciences in the implementation of gender mainstreaming processes, to publish activities and results of women and gender studies at Hessian universities of applied sciences, to promote young researchers in women and gender studies, to create networks within the women and gender research at Hessian universities of applied sciences and with institutions of women and gender studies in the German-speaking area and with professional experience. http://www.gffz.de/ Deutscher Pharmazeutinnen Verband e.V. / German Association of Women Pharmacists The Association promotes gender mainstreaming, supports women to get in leading positions and students to pursue their scientific studies and cooperates with other women organisations in Germany. The Association aims at building a European network of women pharmacists. http://www.pharmazeutinnen.de Digitale Medien in der Bildung (DiMeB) / Digital Media in Education In their research and teachings, DiMeB refer both to education as a field of application for Computing Science and Digital Media, as well as to Media Education based on Computing Science in a context of Educational Science and Didactics. The centre fosters international exchange about matters of intercultural communication and sensitivity towards gender issues. http://www.dimeb.de/ Frauen in die EU-Forschung (FiF) / Women into EU Research Funded as a project by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), FiF targets women scientists planning to get involved in EU research and seeking individual advice. FiF serves as information platform for research facilities, universities and research-based companies wishing to further their women researchers’ career. FiF offers information and advice to anyone taking an interest in gender equality and wishing to know more about Gender Mainstreaming in EU research. http://www.eubuero.de/arbeitsbereiche/fraueneuforschung Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik (NUT) e.V. / Women in Science and Technology  NUT was founded in 1988 to act as a continuous interest and lobbying group for women in science and technology. Tasks and goals of NUT are: to support women in science and technology, to promote the feminist critique of science, to advance the development of ecologically and socially sustainable alternatives in science and technology, to reduce the discrimination of women in science and technology, to raise the awareness for the situation of women in male-dominated professions, to enhance information exchange and to encourage interdisciplinary cooperation. http://www.nut.de/ Gesellschaft Deutscher Akademikerinnen (GDA) / Society of German Women in Academia  The objectives of GDA are to increase the representation and participation of women in society, especially in science and higher education, to influence policy-makers in improving the life-work balance, to promote and encourage women to make they career in top management positions and to exchange experience among members.http://www.gesellschaft-deutscher-akademikerinnen.de/ Improvement of sustainability strategy elaboration for economic, environmental and social policy in Europe (Sustainability Strategy-EU Network)  The objective of the Thematic Network is to use the diversity of scientific approaches to the problems of sustainability as a resource for improving the European sustainability strategy, especially its further elaboration and implementation. This requires the creation of a trans-disciplinary network focused on sustainable development, bringing together technical, economic and political science insights, and capable of monitoring the European sustainability strategy, while building a bridge to experts and civil society networks committed to European policy co-ordination. The gender dimension of all issues implied by sustainability is especially highlighted.http://www.sustainability-strategy.net/index.php Leibniz Association of German Research Institutes  The association works predominantly as a partner to universities, business and policy makers in an area of research between basic science and applications on an international level. http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/?nid=ubu&nidap=&print=0 Max Planck Society  The research institutes of the Max Planck Society perform basic research in the interest of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. www.mpg.de Netzwerk Frauenforschung NRW / Women’s Research Network NRW  The Women’s Research Network NRW is an organisation financed by the North Rhine Westphalian Ministry of Science, interested in developing women and gender studies in all academic fields, by means of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration. The network carries out various projects on gender-related issues, integrating or focusing on societal gender relations or the construction processes of gender in their analysis, interpretation and theory-building.http://www.netzwerk-frauenforschung.de/ Network Caring Economy- Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften  http://www.vorsorgendeswirtschaften.de/index.html Pallas Athene Pallas Athene, funded under FP6, aims to overcome the dilemma of female researchers’ under-representation in leading positions in science organisations, to bring young female researchers in adequate starting positions to become senior managers and departmental leaders, to make female researchers more visible (role models), to strengthen the authority of female scientists and engineers and to raise the interest of younger people (pupils, students) for science. http://www.dkfz.de/en/pallas/index.html  deutscher ingenieurinnenbund (dib) / German Association of Women Engineersdib is an association of and for women that work in engineering or study engineering. dib is dedicated to achieving equal opportunities for women in education and employment. dib participates in dialogues on equality legislation and policies at national and international level. The Association also provides women engineers and engineering students the opportunity to exchange experience and ideas. http://www.dibev.de/ Berlin Institute of Gender in Medecine (GIM) The GiM was founded at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in November 2003. Its aim is the systematic analysis of sex and gender differences in medicine and its introduction into medical education. http://www.charite.de/gender/englisch/index_en.htm Individual Supporting Members Eva Medina is a graduate in Biology from the University of Seville, where she also received her postgraduate degree. She was a Postgraduate Research Assistant at the medical School of the University of Seville. She received her Ph.D. there and her thesis on potentially predictive parameters for the evolution of the acute Hepatitis B type was marked with Summa Cum Laude. Ms Medina was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Immunology Department at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London. She was also a Postdoctoral fellow at the Trudeau Institute, USA. She is currently appointed Head of the Infection Immunology Research Group, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, HZI - Helmholtz Zentrum fur Infektion Forschung, Braunschweig, Germany. Dr. Ingvill C. Mochmann graduated from the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1994. In 2003 she completed her dissertation in the area of electoral research at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Gießen, Germany. Since 1995 she has been working at the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (ZA), Cologne, Germany, first as member of the university staff and since 1997 as coordinator and later head of the European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (ZA-EUROLAB). In 2005 she founded the interdisciplinary network "European mothers in science - EMIS", which now has more than 100 members from all over Europe (http://www.mothersinscience.eu). Dr. Birgit Reinartz has a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from the RWTH Aachen University. She is a Research Fellow at the Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems of the RWTH Aachen University. Her areas of expertise are: hypersonic technology, air breathing propulsion systems, scramjets, computational fluid dynamics and high performance computing. Prof. Marcella Rietschel, PhD in Virology, has been Head of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim since 2002. She had previously worked as a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist and Head of the Clinico-Epidemiological Research Group at the University of Bonn. Her research interests concern genetic and environmental basis of psychiatric disorders, specifically: formal genetic studies and molecular genetics of psychiatric disorders (especially affective disorders and schizophrenia), pharmacogenetic studies in psychiatry, public health genetics and ethical, social and legal aspects of psychiatric genetics. Dina Schardt Ipek Sarac Vera Regitz-Zagrosek Shafagh Dastjani Farahani |
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