Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: Call for Proposals:

BMBF Focal Point of Support »Innovative Frauen im Fokus«

With their funding-program »Innovative Frauen im Fokus« (»Focus on Innovative Women«), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) wants to put a spotlight on women’s contributions to science as well as on their innovative ideas. According to a BMBF press release, the BMBF’s funding program »Innovative Frauen im Fokus« is part of the BMBF’s funding area »Strategien zur Durchsetzung von Chancengerechtigkeit für Frauen in Bildung und Forschung« (»Strategies for the Implementation of Equal Opportunities for Women in Education and Research«) and aims at contributing to the German government’s equal opportunity goals. These entail increasing the opportunities for women in science, research, and innovation to work towards actual equality for women.

Consequently, the funding program’s goals are:

to improve equal opportunities and equal participation for women in science and research,
to increase the representation and visibility of women, their contributions, and their potential with respect to Germany’s culture of innovation,
to develop strategies for increasing the visibility of women and to anchor these strategies structurally and institutionally,
to strengthen cooperation between media professionals and science.

The funding program is open to universities, non-university research institutes, small and medium-sized commercial enterprises, public associations, foundations, educational and cultural institutions, and other legal persons, whether governed by public or private law, if they have competencies in the area of women- and gender-focused research and/or topic-related measures.

The program offers funding for research and implementation projects with a term of up to three years. In total, the program will distribute 36 million Euros among the various projects.

The application deadlines are November 30, 2021, and November 30, 2022.

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