Program
The aim of the program is to promote the academic careers of women by individually compensating for structural disadvantages. The program adresses female students, doctoral, post-doctoral and habilitation students of Faculty 10.
The need is obvious: Female students are qualified, committed, motivated and innovative. Nevertheless, women in leadership positions and professorships are unfortunately still the exception. A differentiated analysis by grade shows that the higher the grade, the lower the proportion of women. The differences are also serious in the field of philosophy.
The causes often include a lack of networks for young female academics, the lack of targeted support in career planning or a lack of assistance in balancing family and career.
With its mentoring programs, LMU Munich seeks to contribute to counteracting this loss of scientific potential. The previous LMUexcellent Mentoring Program for the promotion of young women was transferred into the current LMU Mentoring Program of Faculty 10 and taking effect on 1 October 2017.
Program Regulation Update (active from October 24):
1. From now on every mentee has to complete a mandatory coaching/seminar once per year (years are counted from 1.10. to 30.9. the following year). Mentees can choose from the vide variety of free coachings/seminars offered by different services by the LMU.
Furthermore, if there is enough interest amongst mentees for a coaching/workshop on a certain topic (not offered by LMU services), this can be funded and/or organized by the mentoring program. If there is a topic for a coaching/workshop not offered by any of the sources listed above that you would like to attend, please let us know via email.
2. Introduction of a mandatory yearly report of how the mentee used/was supported through the mentoring program (approx. 1 page) - the renewal of the mentee status and eligibility to apply for funding is conditional on handing in this report once a year. Mentees should include which type of coaching/workshop they attended in that year.
IMPORTANT: The timeframe for this report is 1.10.24-30.9.25. The first deadline for a report is: 1.12.2025
Please upload the reports by this deadline in the online application tool. Should there be any problems with the upload, you may submit the report via email. Reminders will be sent out by the program administration team.