Women’s Advancement Funds

Under Hesse travel expenses legislation, we usually grant staff and students funding of up to 700€ per person/year and open access publication uo to 500€.

Participation in events

When allocating women’s advancement funds, the Women’s Advancement Funds Committee abides by the Guidelines for the Use of Women’s Advancement Funds (opens in new tab) .

The reasons why the travel expenses for staff participation in conferences and meetings cannot be covered by the research group itself must be stated additionally. For those participating in ProProfessur, the registration fee will also be refunded. Students are not eligible to receive funding for any item that is normally part of their study programme.

Examples of measures funded include participation in events run by:

  • Mentoring Hessen
  • SciMento
  • Femtec

Publication costs

A grant for publication costs of open access publications for female members of the faculty without a permanent position can be applied for up to a maximum of 500 euros per publication (regardless of additional funding).

Requirement:

  • a female member of the Department of Mathematics at an early career stage (defined as a student or doctoral candidate or postdoc or assistant professor with or without tenure track) is the “corresponding author” of the paper
  • “open access” is chosen with one of the publishers covered by the DEAL contract (Springer, Elsevier, Wiley)
  • all possible funding possibilities of the TU Darmstadt are exhausted (there is an open access funding support of 1400 or 2800 Euro, more information here: https://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/forschen_publizieren/publizieren/oa_foerderung/index.de.jsp)
  • only actual costs can be funded

Applications

Applications for subsidies from the Women’s Advancement Funds may be submitted at any time. In order to do so, please send your application (opens in new tab) via mail to the Gender Equality Officer in the Department of Mathematics. For smaller applications than 700€, an informal e-mail is sufficient.

You will be informed about the funding decision in writing.

When you have participated in the event funded, please forward the scanned originals of all the necessary receipts together with your payment application to us. You are welcome to send the originals to manuela.landgrebe@tu-darmstadt.de