The “Angewandte Mentoring-Programm” serves as an advancement strategy to promote equal opportunities at the university. It aims to address the decreasing proportion of women across career trajectories as their qualifications increase (from studying to becoming professors) and to support motivated early-career artist and researchers in the strategic planning of their career and their development by fostering exchange with experienced international artists and researchers.

Interactive vocational orientation program for 8th grade pupils, focusing on female role models in STEM fields

Overview of central measures for faculties, institutes and centers at the University of Klagenfurt.

International fellowship programme for gender research supporting research activities in the area of gender studies at the University of Graz.

Free workshop for all female members of the four Graz Universites (and for all members who identify as female)

Women in Engineering – offering advice and guidance to encourage female pupils to pursue technical and scientific subjects; in cooperation with FH Gesundheitsberufe OÖ (University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria)

Awards for diversity-related dissertations/theses, scholarship for a female junior scholar in natural sciences and/or technology

Group coaching primarily for female habilitation candidates and post-docs as well as female doctoral/pre-doc students in the final stages of their thesis work

Life coaching program for (individual) employees of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. This program is not principally intended for men.

Cross-gender small group mentoring within the Clinical PhD program at the Medical University of Innsbruck

An evening of networking for graduates of the women’s advancement programs

Mentoring for female junior academics in small groups (post-doc)

Mentoring for female junior academics in small groups (pre-doc)

Training course aimed at building “Gender and diversity related competences for academics” in fields of technology and natural sciences; in cooperation with Genderwerkstätte Graz (“Genderworkshop Graz”), 6 two-day modules, initial cycle started in winter term 2019/20

Training for senior postdocs and habilitation candidates to successfully complete the habilitation process

Round table with members, students and graduates of artistic, pedagogical and scientific university institutes

Awarding scholarships to students of the doctoral schools at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

Training package/Certificate for university employees: Competence in gender and diversity issues within the university

Same-gender, one-to-one mentoring for female physicians and junior researchers at the Medical University of Innsbruck

Workshops at TU Wien for schoolgirls aged 10-14 (every year in July)

Seminar series for women at TU Wien: students, junior researchers, academics, and collaborative partners

Group mentoring for female PhD students/pre-docs at TU Wien

The award honors female graduates of the Vienna University of Technology, who have conducted work and projects of particular significance during their careers.

Information days for study courses in science and technology for female high school students in Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland.

A handbook of practical guidance for mentors, Graz 2017, author: Karin Grasenick

Workshops for elementary school pupils, designed to soften the sway held by traditional role models and to already broach the topic of “career options” with children of elementary school age.

Career development for female tenure-track (habilitation) candidates and doctoral students.

A two-year vocational guidance project for elementary school teachers in Linz

Mentoring for female students of mathematics during the phase of their master’s thesis.

(Female) gender researchers in residence at the university

Mentoring program for female tenured lecturers (habilitation) on track to professorship.

Individual coaching for female (junior) scientists at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

Measure promoting academic work within the framework of women’s and gender studies at the University of Salzburg.

Annual promoting measure for researchers at the University of Salzburg.

Career development program at the Universities of Linz, Salzburg and Krems 2017-2019

One-year career development program for female doctoral students and post-docs at the four universities in Graz

Small group mentoring for female junior researchers

Booklet on the regulatory framework for the habilitation process (qualification for lecturer status) at the University of Vienna, with guidelines and background Information.

FEMAC was a three-semester career development program for female postdocs and habilitation candidates at the University of Vienna, conducted in English.

Professorships at the University of Vienna for the advancement of women

Scholarship for female postdoctoral students who had to interrupt their academic activities due to care obligations in their families.

Individual career coaching combined with gender equality Workshops.