Auxiliary staff
The assumption of costs for auxiliary staff aims to reduce the workload on committee work for women scientists. The intention is to establish standards, to reconcile self-administration, research, teaching and life andthus to maintain or increase job satisfaction. Women academics are still more burdened with reconciliation services. Additionally, if they are among the few female professors, they are much more often involved in appointment procedures and review activities.
Assistants are useful to support academic work, in which they are involved in research, teaching and academic organization, but can also be introduced to academic work as future junior staff and be enthusiastic about research and teaching. For this reason, professors should be motivated to integrate talented female students into academic work contexts such as teaching, research, conferences and publications via student assistant contracts and to introduce them to the possibilities of academic qualifications.
Who is eligible to apply?
- (newly appointed) professors and post docs
- Scientists with family responsibilities
- a work area (chair, faculty, research group, etc.)
What is specifically funded?
- grant or the assumption of costs for an assistant in the amount of 120 hours over a period of max. 6 months
- increase in financial and time resources to delegate tasks to scientists with family responsibilities
- hiring or continued employment of female students as assistants which are potential young scientists doing scientific activities
- support of the faculties, central institutions and administration in projects, events, teaching with a gender or equality reference
- support during maternity leave for female professors and female postdocs
- support in getting back to work
- bridging of status passages
How can funding be applied for?
- Send us the application for individual coaching with the choice of your coach in writing or by email:
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Equal Opportunities Office
Jenny Bergmann
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
- You are also welcome to leave your documents in the letterbox of the BfG (building 18 / room 240) or send them by email to: jenny.bergmann@ovgu.de
- The approval of the applications is subject to the availability of funds.
Settlement
After approval, internal agreements are made on the recruitment, including the preparation of all documents, with the area to be recruited in the faculty / chair. The complete documents are submitted to the personnel department via the BfG