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Recruitment and Advancement of Female Scientists

Following the Max Planck Gender Equality Policy the Max Planck Society offers a couple of measures to counteract unfair underrepresentation of one gender and to promote a gender-equal career development.
Furthermore MPI participates in the “Ladies Night for Women in Engineering Sciences” which takes place every year at Otto von Guericke University. MPI invites further every year pupils to participate in the yearly organized nationwide Girls & Boys Day.
A network for female scientists in the Max Planck Society
A mentoring network for women in the natural sciences
Career development and promotion of postdoctoral students of the Max Planck Society
An excellence program of the Max Planck Society that recruits and promotes exceptionally qualified female scientists
A mentoring and coaching program in Saxony-Anhalt that supports women on their career paths
The central service unit for all doctoral students and postdocs at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
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