We offer financial support in order to provide various forms of interdisciplinary exchange to examine whether and how sex and gender dimensions are relevant in one’s own research.
The offers are advertised in each case.
Calls can be found here.
Researcher in Residence (started 2024)
Are you interested in the question of whether and how gender dimensions could be relevant in your own field of research?
In order to discuss this question in your own working environment, we financially support guest residencies at the TU Braunschweig. The guest residency makes it possible to discuss this question on site with your own research subject in a collegial exchange and thus diversify research at the TU Braunschweig and develop new perspectives.
Guest residencies are usually advertised twice a year. As long as the funds have not yet been fully utilised, applications can be submitted on an ongoing basis. Please ask the GeDiMINT-team for more information. You can find the latest call here.
Researcher in Residence 2024
Dr. Anneke Steegh (Leibniz-Institut)
Researcher in Residence for Junior Research Group „Communicating Scientists: Challenges, Competencies, Contexts (fourC)“
Contact Person: Dr. Friederike Hendriks, Leader of the Junior Research Group fourC & Institut für Pädagogische Psychologie, Fakultät 6
Period of financing: November 2024, 5 days (2 online, 3 on site)
Sum: ca. 1.750€ (200€ accommodation, 1.500€ travelling and allowance of expenses)
Researcher in Residence 2025
Makalay Saidiatu Sonda (Njala University Sierra Leone)
Researcher in Residence for Jun.-Prof. Dr. Henriette Bertram, Gender.Ing, Institut für Bauklimatik und Energie der Architektur, Fakultät 3
Period of financing: February/March 2025, 4 weeks
Sum: ca. 3.800€ (1.300€ accomodation, 1.500€ travelling expenses, 900€ daily allowance, 35€ health insurance)
Research Impulses (started 2025)
Would you like to conduct interdisciplinary research and are interested in developing research impulses with a view to sex and gender dimensions in your field of research in STEM research or with a focus on STEM research?
We offer researchers at TU Braunschweig financial support for this, which is aimed at engineering, life and natural scientists as well as social scientists and humanities scholars. The aim of the research impulses is to create a space for interdisciplinary exchange in order to discuss ideas in temporary (new) collaborations, to determine the impact for research and to develop ways to implement them in research projects. This can take place in various forms, e.g. through a symposium, a closed meeting, an exchange with guest researchers, a methods workshop or other creative formats. Examples can be found below.
The call for applications takes place annually, usually in autumn of the previous year; in 2025 it took place in January. You can find the most recent call for applications here.
The list of possible formats is purely illustrative, but gives you an idea.
Antragsrunde 2025
DOLPHIN – Diversitätsorientierte Optimierung von Legal- und Prüfstandards für Homologation und Inklusion
Persons involved in the impulse
Cindy Demuth, LL.M., PhD-candidate, Institut für Rechtswissenschaften (IRW), Fakultät 1,
Prof. Dr. Anne Paschke, Institut für Rechtswissenschaften (IRW), Fakultät 1
Luisa Mennecke, M.Sc., Institut für Intermodale Transport- und Logistiksysteme (ITL), Fakultät 4
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pannek, Institut für Intermodale Transport- und Logistiksysteme (ITL), Fakultät 4
In total: 14.900 Euro
Period of financing: June to October 2025
Diversity in Immersive Learning: How Sex, Gender, and Identity Shape Virtual Reality Use in Learning and Engagement
Persons involved in the impulse
Dr. Katja Knecht, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Fakultät 3
Xiuli Huang Lonsdale, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Fakultät 6
Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow, Professorin, Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Fakultät 3
In total: 12.950 Euro
Period of financing: June to mid August 2025
Inclusive Urban Science Collective (IUSC). Strengthening Research Design by Diversity Perspectives
Persons involved in the impulse
Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow, Director ISU, Speaker Core Research Area Future City, ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Fakultät 3
Dr. Esteban Muñoz*, General Manager, Urban Climate Future Lab
Olaf Mumm, Deputy Head ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Fakultät 3
Various research partners (TU Braunschweig and external)
In total: 10.840 Euro
Period of financing: June to October 2025
Non-cash prize for the promotion of young talent, starting 2026
Starting 2026, the prize will be awarded to the best doctoral thesis that takes into account sex and/or gender dimensions in STEM research or STEM topics. If no doctorate is available, the prize can also be awarded for a Master’s thesis. The non-cash prize is earmarked for the presentation of the work in the scientific community and can be used, for example, for printing costs of a publication, editing, lectures or a high-profile exchange with experts.
The annual call for applications begins in September or October of the previous year, six months before the award ceremony.
More about the tendering procedure
Submission
Applications can be submitted both by the doctoral candidates themselves and by the supervising scientists. The prerequisite is that the doctoral thesis or Master’s thesis originates from an institute of TU Braunschweig and is not older than two years at the time of submission (date of defence).
Documents to be submitted
- Expert opinion of the supervisors
- Curriculum vitae incl. publication list with publications in the context of the work
- Brief summary of the thesis (two DIN A-4 pages) and electronic version of the thesis
