The Female Professors Programme is a federal and state government program that aims to increase the proportion of women in professorships and strengthen gender equality structures at universities. Fulda University of Applied Sciences has been participating in the programme since the first funding phase.
HFD continues the success story of the Female Professors Programme in 2024 - Substantial funding and award with distinction as a "university with strong gender equality"
As part of the "Female Professors Programme 2030" from the federal and state governments, the equal opportunities concept for gender parity at the university submitted by Fulda University of Applied Sciences in 2024 was positively assessed by a panel of experts for the fourth time in a row and was also one of 22 universities nationwide to receive another award - this time with distinction as a "university with strong gender equality". The maximum funding amount for Fulda University of Applied Sciences totals almost three million euros for the funding period up to 2030.
Equal opportunities concept for gender parity at Fulda University of Applied Sciences (PDF in German)
To the current press release (in German)
More information on the BMBF Women Professors Programme
Fulda University of Applied Sciences twice successful in the Female Professors Programme III (2018)
In 2018, Fulda University of Applied Sciences was the only university of applied sciences nationwide to be awarded the title "Equal Opportunities: Excellent".
Fulda University of Applied Sciences is the only university of applied sciences (HAW) nationwide to receive this distinction out of a total of ten universities and HAWs in Hesse. It was thus able to apply for a fourth start-up funding programme for the first appointment of a woman.
From left: President Prof Dr Karim Khakzar, Vice President Prof Dr Martina Ritter, Carolin Schumacher (BMBF), Christoph Degen, State Secretary HMWK, Birgit Hohmann (Head of CUV at Fulda University of Applied Sciences) and Prof Dr Anne Walter.
On 13 March 2025, Fulda University of Applied Sciences was presented with the "Equal Opportunities Strong University" plaque by the State Secretary of the Hessian Ministry of Science, Research, Art and Culture, Christoph Degen, and Carolin Schumacher from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. "You were successful with your equal opportunities concept in the Female Professors Programme 2030 because you have developed a very diverse yet structured portfolio of measures and anchored them in a sustainable way. Over the years, you have made excellent use of your development opportunities within the framework of the Women Professors Programme. And overall, you have presented a very good and well-founded equal opportunities concept," summarised Carolin Schumacher in her speech. Together with the management of Fulda University of Applied Sciences, committee members, instructors, academic participation and students celebrated the special recognition in the area of gender equality. The invited guests also included the employees of Fulda University of Applied Sciences, who were actively involved in the development and implementation of the equal opportunities concept for parity, and the female professors and researchers whose positions were funded from previous funding phases of the female professorship programme. With the award of the coveted distinction, Fulda University of Applied Sciences has received additional funding on top of the three start-up grants for professorships: a further position for a young female researcher on her way to becoming a tenured professorship.
Fulda University of Applied Sciences twice successful in the Women Professors Programme III (2018)
In 2018, Fulda University of Applied Sciences was the only university of applied sciences nationwide to receive the "Equal Opportunities: Excellent" distinction.
Fulda University of Applied Sciences is the only university of applied sciences (HAWs) nationwide to receive this distinction out of a total of ten universities and HAWs in Hesse. It was thus able to apply for a fourth start-up funding programme for the first appointment of a woman.
Strategy Paper on Gender Equality at Fulda University of Applied Sciences (PDF)
To the press release of Fulda University of Applied Sciences
To the press release of the Joint Science Conference (GWK)
