Proactive Appointment Policy

The regulations ‚Quality assurance in appointment procedures under particular consideration of aspects of gender and diversity‚ (German only) are referred to every time appointments are made, and are constantly being updated. They are used for quality assurance and controlling purposes in all appointment procedures. Equal opportunities are improved by consistently, systematically and transparently integrating equality and diversity aspects in the appointment procedure.

Other relevant documents are:

• Handout: Quality assurance in appointment procedures (PDF)
• Checklist for the procedural steps and results of the appointment procedure (PDF) (German only)

Another key aspect of FAU’s appointment procedure is taking a proactive headhunting approach for recruiting female professors. In addition to the Regulations for Appointments, binding ‚Guidelines for Headhunting Female Professors‚ (German only) have also been approved. These give women’s representatives more influence. According to the guidelines, women’s representatives have the right to select qualified female candidates from the applications that have been received and request that they are invited to give a trial lecture. The homepage of the Office of Equality and Diversity provides a list of databases of female researchers that can be used to help choose suitable female candidates.

As full members of the appointments committees, women’s representatives have an important role to play. Training courses on appointment procedures taking all aspects of gender equality into account are offered regularly for all women’s representatives. In addition, the Office of Equality and Diversity has prepared a handout for women’s representatives in appointment committees (German only).

The list of databases of female scientists you can find here. (German only)

An approx. one-hour StudOn-based online tutorial aims to raise awareness of (unconscious) gender biases and their influence on personnel decisions. The course is primarily aimed at members of appointment committees and managers at FAU. However, it can also be used by all FAU internal and external interested parties. Further information and access can be found here (German version only).