2nd quarter

Reporting period April 1 - June 30, 2022

Mentoring has been established for many years as an important instrument in the career advancement of women and is also part of our personnel development concept. TU Clausthal has been running a successful mentoring program WiMINToring for young female scientists since 2019. Now we would like to give our female students in the Master's degree programs the same opportunity and are offering a WiMINToring mentoring program for female Master's students for the first time in the summer semester of 2022 with a focus on the start of their careers. The program started on 1 April 2022 with a digital kick-off event and will run until the end of the 2022 summer semester with a group of 15 mentees. In addition to mentoring discussions, our mentoring program offers workshops to strengthen personal skills, networking evenings, career coaching and excursions to career fairs. We have thus also created a structured program for female students at our university in the area of equal opportunities work and are holistically positioned with our offers. The press release can be found under this link.

This year's Girls'Day and Boys'Day (Girls' and Boys' Future Day) took place on Thursday, April 28, 2022. TU Clausthal has regularly taken part in this nationwide campaign since 2002 and this year, various institutes and facilities are once again participating in this day of action with their offers. Many thanks to all those who provided offers this year.

On June 16, 2022, the anniversary celebration "15 Years of Dialogue Initiative in Lower Saxony" took place in Hanover with the central players of the Dialogue Initiative: Lower Saxony's Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK), the Lower Saxony State University Conference (LHK) and the State Conference of Equal Opportunities Officers at Lower Saxony's universities (lakog). Ms. Schaffel-Mancini and Ms. Schenk-Mathes will participate as representatives of the university.

As part of our women's network "Women&Science TU Clausthal", an online workshop on the female perspective on power in the leadership process took place on April 28, 2022 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The workshop is open to all (junior) female scientists at our university. In addition, the monthly network meetings of our female early career researchers took place, recently even in person. These regular meetings provide the opportunity for personal networking as well as a small training session for various skills such as strengthening self-confidence.

On June 13, 2022, the workshop on achieving the second milestone in presence took place as part of the diversity audit. One of the central measures in the audit is the development of the university's diversity strategy. The strategy group took on this task and discussed the final draft of the diversity strategy with the entire steering committee of the diversity audit at the last workshop. Once the steering committee's comments have been incorporated, the diversity strategy will be submitted to the university's committees for approval. The certification workshop with peer review is planned for November 14, 2022. The auditing process should come to an end (hopefully successfully) with the handover of the certificate in March 2023.

In my role as Diversity Officer at Clausthal University of Technology, I am a new member of the Network Diversity at Universities has been accepted. This is a nationwide collegial network of employees who are entrusted with the implementation of diversity and anti-discrimination tasks at German universities on an operational and strategic level across all dimensions.

Between 7 and 10% of students at German universities belong to the LGBTIQ+ community. The Gay and Lesbian Initiative in Clausthal (SLIC) has been active at Clausthal University of Technology for around 5 years. On the initiative of the chairman of SLIC, the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld is participating in the International Day against Homo-, Bi-, Inter- and Transphobia on May 17, 2022. The rainbow flags were hung on two poles of our university (in front of the main building and in front of the library) for one day. The Student Union has also put up a flag in the canteen. In addition, the main building will be illuminated in rainbow colors in the evening. In this way, we are working together to promote more respect and tolerance in our society.

On May 31, 2022, Clausthal University of Technology took part in the German Diversity Day, which was launched by the Diversity Charter, for the third time. The nationwide campaign for diversity in the world of work took place for the 10th time this year. With our slider image on the university's main website and our social media presence, we once again flew the flag for diversity on this day of action.

Our vacation care program in the first week of the Easter vacations (April 4 - 8, 2022), the so-called Children's Easter University, was once again a great success with ten children. In addition to the child-friendly activities offered by the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, the program with its diverse activities was themed around Easter. All in all, the TU Clausthal's vacation care programs, especially the summer holiday care, are very popular. This year there are very many registrations and a long waiting list. Once again, it is very clear how important the vacation childcare services are. The press release can be found under this link.

In the last two years, the parent-child meetings for our relatives with families have been held exclusively in digital form due to the coronavirus. On 19 May 2022, the Family Service once again organized a face-to-face event on the topic: "What do I have to consider as a student or employee of Clausthal University of Technology during pregnancy and the birth of my child? The focus was on informing our international families and facilitating better integration and networking. In addition to Ms Methfessel from the Family Service, other advice centers also took part: Ms. Balthaus from the Central Student Advisory Service and Ms. Siemann from the Social Counselling Service Studentenwerk OstNiedersachsen participated to provide a well-rounded information package.

On May 24, 2022, the campus run took place after a two-year break and the Family Service once again offered childcare for the participants of the campus run and set up a children's play area for all children present.

The first aid course for children for TU members took place on June 8, 2022. The course was offered in person and conducted by a trainer from the local DLRG group. The first aid course for children (infants and children) dealt with typical emergencies in infants and children and was conducted by the DLRG. Places were limited to 15 people and were quickly booked out.

The Family Service is currently carrying out a project to expand the family-friendly infrastructure at Clausthal University of Technology. It is financed from the equal opportunities funds of the research group coordinated by Prof. Turek. As part of this project, office workstations are being prepared for family-friendly use and mobile equipment is being made available. In addition, as many toilets as possible will be equipped with changing tables.