The Gender Mentoring Agency offers measures to promote particularly talented female doctoral students and students at the University of Cologne. The aim is to attract them – within the scope of a structured talent management – for careers in academia and to provide them with long-term support in planning and implementing their career steps. As an instrument of funds for the promotion of the gifted, the agency supplements existing mentoring programs at the University of Cologne and makes an important contribution to attracting the ‘best minds’ for academia.

In addition to the mentoring partnerships, offers of advanced training and network meetings for mentees, the offer also includes a target-group-specific offer for academic managers and members of non-professorial teaching staff who want to further network and professionalise in their roles as mentors and career developers or gatekeepers.

The Gender Mentoring Agency is a free service offered by Faculty and Academic Staff Development and is directed at female doctoral students and female students across all faculties.

The objective of the programme is to provide support for postdoctoral candidates and assistant professors at the University of Cologne who are also responsible for caring for children or have obligations to care for relatives.

This support includes subsidies for child- or eldercare costs or funding for the employment of a student assistant to help with the individual’s research tasks. The intention is to provide balance between family life and research and improve the career opportunities for researchers with a strong career potential who also have dependent family members.

More information can be found on this page.

On these pages you will find links to the information of individual sponsors on the promotion of female scientists. (German only)

DFG-funded research associations (SFB/CRC, FOR/RU), graduate schools and programmes as well as excellence clusters at the University of Cologne receive gender funds from the German Research Foundation (DFG), which can be used, among other things, for services in the areas of training (Female Career Center), coaching (Faculty and Academic Staff Development) and childcare (Dual Career & Family Support).

The Referat Gender & Diversity Management will assist you during the application process, the appraisal process and throughout the duration of your research.
They also offer personal consultations.