Programme for female early career researchers
The Office for Equal Opportunities at Leuphana University offers a mentoring and coaching project to support female early career researchers on their way to professorship or to leadership positions outside of academia. This offer includes a wide range of support programmes and specific educational trainings.
New mentoring programms will start in summer/autumn 2026. We will provide timely information on these pages and via internal emails.
1The mentoring programmes are funded by the German federal and state governments as part of their efforts to increase the representation of women in academia. In our implementation, we recognize diverse gender identities. We therefore welcome applications from all individuals who identify as woman and/or beyond binary gender categories. Intersectional dimensions of diversity will be considered in the selection process.
The mentoring programmes ProScience & ProViae both accompany and support well-advanced female doctoral candidates, postdocs, and junior professors in orientation and decision-making processes as well as in their their competence development over a period of 12 or 18 months, enabling them to set the course for their own career path individually and competently.
Furthermore, we are trying to be responsive to a variety of needs and life circumstances and appreciate your trust. Please let us know, how we can support you.
Above that, the university offers an open programme of demand-oriented workshops (e.g. on negotiation processes, networking, scientific publishing, balance) as well as parlour conversations, lectures, and symposia to all female early career researchers.
The offer is complemented by the annual competence days for female early career researchers (Summer School/Spring School), a project in cooperation of the mentoring programmes ProScience and ProViae and Leuphana Graduate School. In addition to workshops and lectures, the Summer School also provides a platform for discussing gender codes in science and the resulting conditions for women’s different career paths.
ProScience & ProViae
TEAM MENTORING
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Gleichstellungsbüro
Universitätsallee 1
Gebäude 7, 3. Etage
21335 Lüneburg
proscience@leuphana.de / proviae@leuphana.de