Support measures in individual faculties and institutions

• Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

  • Supporting women in the postdoctoral phase (supporting work-related travel and article editing and proofreading; total funding sum: €5,000).
  • Facilitating the return to work for female research associates following parental leave or leave to take care of relatives (by providing assistants; six-month maximum; total funding sum: €5,000).

Contact
Equal Opportunity Representative for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Daniela Rastetter
Socioeconomics
Business Administration
Von-Melle-Park 9
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2777
Daniela.Rastetter"AT"wiso.uni-hamburg.de

• Faculty of Education
  • Female research associates or staff (junior) professors and doctoral students with children up to fourteen years of age or nursing care obligations can apply to the equal opportunity fund for up to €250 per calendar year for a student assistant.
  • In addition to extant University childcare measures, the Faculty provides its research associates with financial support of up to €300 for childcare from the equal opportunity support fund for professional activities (e.g., conferences, lectures, etc.).

Contact
Equal Opportunity Representative in the Faculty of Education
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Mayrberger
Tel: +49 40 42838-2154
kerstin.michalik"AT"uni-hamburg.de

• Faculty of Law
  (Gleichstellungsplan)
  • special lending conditions in the library
  • contribution of up to €300 per semester toward additional childcare costs
  • doctoral scholarships and a doctoral award for completed dissertations in the field of legal gender studies
  • female research associates receive up to €300 annually as travel subsidy if they actively take part in a conference (e.g., if they give a talk)
  • support for activities in the field of gender and equal opportunity-related research and teaching  

Contact
Equal Opportunity Representative in the Faculty of Law
Anne Dienelt
Rothenbaumchaussee 33
20148 Hamburg
gleichstellung.jura"AT"uni-hamburg.de

• Faculty of Humanities
  • emergency childcare, Company Kids
  • student assistant (SHK, 16 hrs/monthly)
    

Contact
Equal Opportunity Representative in the Faculty of Humanities
Prof. Dr. Sabine Kienitz
Institute of Cultural Anthropology
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
West Wing, Room 214
20146 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 40 42838-7053
sabine.kienitz"AT"uni-hamburg.de

• Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
  
  • research and travel grants for young researchers; exchange and cooperation
  • Financial support for childcare in non-peaktimes and for special professional obligations.

Contact
MIN Equal Opportunity Representative
Angela Schwabl, Tel: +49 40 42883-2316
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg
 schwabl@informatik.uni-hamburg.de(schwabl"AT"informatik.uni-hamburg.de )

• Faculty of Business Administration
  
  • Systematic financial support measures for female academics with family obligations (e.g., childcare) as part of the Elisabeth Eisfeld Postdoctoral Program
    + Systematic support for female academics with family obligations based on individual agreement with superiors as follows:
    
    • female academics with family obligations may be granted several hours of support from a student assistant;
    • childcare for house events (in cooperation with the Studierendenwerk) may be agreed upon;
    • (financial) support for childcare emergencies and/or in extenuating circumstances may be available.
  • Within the framework of the DFG research unit Marketing of Hedonic Media Products in the Age of Digital Social Media, research associates may avail themselves of resources intended to make academic workplaces more family-friendly. In addition to career advancement measures there are various opportunities to promote the balance between family and academic career. These include family services (e.g., recommending childcare facilities, financing emergency childcare), childcare during events organized by the research unit, childcare during school breaks, or setting up an office at home. Furthermore, family-friendly stays abroad are organized for researchers within the framework of this DFG research unit.

Contact
Prof. Dr. Michel Clement, Tel.: 42838-8721
Welckerstr.8, Raoom 623, 20354 Hamburg
michel.clement"AT"uni-hamburg.de

• PIASTA program for doctoral students
  
  • Information, seminars, workshops, free-time activities

• Cluster of Excellence CliSAP