Equal Opportunity Committees: Uni Osnabrück

The Equal Opportunity Committees at Osnabrück University complement the work of the Equal Opportunity Representative and the Equal Opportunity Office. Central and decentralized strategies to promote gender equality are further developed and implemented in collaboration.

With the Equal Opportunity Committee (ZKfG), the Senate has explicitly established a commitee whose main task is to implement the gender equality mandate. The committee supports the central Equal Opportunitiy Representative in her official duties, for example by adopting the university's equal opportunities plan and participating in its implementation, evaluation and further development. In addition, the committee draws up the election proposal for a new central Equal Opportunity Representative.

Furthermore, the committee awards the Female Promotion Pool, which is endowed with 80,000 euros annually and is aimed at members of the university and supports them with degree scholarships and in the form of financial support for projects to implement gender equality.

The Council of Decentralized Equal Opportunity Representatives is the joint body of the Decentralized Equal Opportunity Representatives. The purpose of this committee is to exchange ideas and provide mutual support, address current issues, and to coordinate cross-departmental issues relating to gender equality work. In internal working groups, the members regularly engage in in-depth discussions on current questions concerning the university’s equal opportunity efforts. The chair of the Council of Decentralized Equal Opportunity Representatives is Dr.ⁱⁿ Sabine Jösting, the Central Equal Opportunity Representative of the university.