The Central Equal Opportunities Officer actively promotes diversity of perspectives and equal opportunities. Together with her team, she advises and supports employees and female students at HHU on issues such as career advancement and discrimination.
Central Equal Opportunities Officer
NEWS and EVENTS
Annual reception and conference
SelmaMeyerMentoring in international exchange
Advancing academic careers with courage and support: SelmaMeyerMentoring has been empowering young female academics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for 19 years. To celebrate this, mentees, alumnae, mentors and interested parties will come together on May 27. Prior to this, experts from twelve European countries will discuss the future of mentoring at a conference. HHU members can still register for both events.
“AI in gender medicine: (not) a vision of the future?”
Gender in medicine forum
On June 25, 2025 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., the Gender in Medicine Forum will take place at the Haus der Universität. This year's topic is “AI in gender medicine: (not) a vision of the future?”.
News from the
Family Support Centre
- New brochure “Study and family
- summer vacation camp
- Large-scale day care (start 1 August)
Help with attacks and conflicts
in scientific communication
Scicomm Support is the national point of contact in the event of attacks and unobjective and unobjective conflicts in science communication and is a joint institution of the “Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation” and ‘Wissenschaft im Dialog’.
Support programmes, grants and funds
- Female Professors Programme III (PPIII) of the federal government and the states
- Emergency Assistance Fund for BA/MA/PhD students
- FamilyFund
- PublicationFund
- MobilityFund
- TrainingFund
- Silencium – Time and space to complete academic work
- Coverage of childcare costs for committee members
- COMEBACK re-entry programme
- Foreign language certificate grant
- Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act - WissZeitVG
- Gender Consulting
- Dual Career Support
- MINT@hhu