Inequality funding for family support measures to make careers in science more family-friendly.

• Financing of extra-ordinary childcare costs
• Childcare during CRC events
• kids box
• Funding for travel of children / relatives in need of care and their carer (e.g. spouses) to accompany fellows to conferences or research training events off-site

Female as well as male, i.e. mothers as well as fathers, are eligible to apply.

Support for researchers who need to be temporarily absent from work due to family responsibilities

• Staff to support scientists with family commitments
• Establishment of a home office
• Establishment of a parent-child room

Female as well as male, i.e. mothers as well as fathers, are eligible to apply.

Funding for equal opportunity measures to improve the career chances of female scientists.

• Mentoring-programmes
• Coaching
• Soft-skill-courses and workshops
• Networking measures
  • E.g. participation in additional congresses or conferences, if the equality of opportunity for female scientists is promoted, e. g. by increasing the female scientist’s visibility and qualification or establishment of new cooperations)

Especially in higher career stages, female scientists are still under-represented. The measures are meant to qualify especially female doctoral and post-doctoral researchers for their following career steps and support them on their way to the top.

Financing of measures which help to make scientists aware of implicit biases regarding gender and help them gain gender competences.

• Workshops
• Gender-sensitive events about leadership
• Sensitisation trainings for project leaders on how to select and hire personnel

These support measures are meant to facilitate the equality of opportunity for all scientists and rise awareness for gender-specific questions.