Jobs and Positions
On the long career path to professorship, financial security can often not be guaranteed. Especially in the transition phases to the next career step, an above-average number of female researchers in Germany opt to “drop out”. Before you turn your back on the academic world, find out more about the financing options we can provide.
Final and bridge funding schemes
You are about to complete your doctorate, financing, however, will expire earlier, the conditions during the coronavirus pandemic negatively affected your academic performance or career plans. Or there is no position available for the postdoc phase. Our final and bridge funding schemes fill these and other unwanted gaps.
Target group:
Women researchers at all levels of qualification; the aim is to help them start or complete a doctoral or habilitation project and to bridge financing gaps, for example when applying for external funding.
Female researchers whose employment contract or scholarship with the University of Mannheim ends and whose positions cannot be further financed by means of the university budget or third-party funding are eligible to apply.
Type of funding:
Contract as a part-time academic staff member (50%) within the E13 TV-L remuneration bracket (at present, 19.75 hours per week)
Funding period:
Up to 6 months
NEW: a six-month extension due to the restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic (“Corona-Komponente”). You can apply for this extension, if the conditions during the coronavirus pandemic negatively affected your academic performance or career plans.
Deadline for submitting the application:
The current tender round is closed. A new tender is planned and will be announced here.
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Credit: Jula JacobMargarete von Wrangell Habilitation Program
The goal of the program, which was restructured by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts in 2023, is to create structured post-doc positions for talented women, to try to lower the disproportionate number of women leaving academia, and to win highly qualified talents for permanent positions.
In order to reach the program’s goal, female junior professors or tenure-track professors and female scientists, who have recently completed their doctoral studies (in the last two years), form a tandem for a maximum of three years.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts and the European Social Funds Plus, a three-year employment contract is concluded (TV-L EG 13 or 14, 100% position). The higher education institution provides additional funding in the amount of EUR 15,000 as qualification budget for material resources.
Target group:
Female junior professors and tenure track professors in accordance with section 51b of the act on the higher education institutions in the Land of Baden-Württemberg are eligible to apply in the first 18 months after they have started their position.
Type of funding:
100 % position TV-L EG-13 or 14
Funding period:
3 years
Deadline for submitting the application:
Applications can be submitted continuously via the Department I to the management of the higher education institution from now until 31 May 2025.
If you are interested in applying, please contact Dr. Eva Johach.
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