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History

 

On June 17, 2009 the equal opportunity plan from 2009 to 2014 was adopted. Part of the plan was the aim to implement a faculty-wide mentoring programme.
As a result, the EIRA-mentoring programme—named after the goddess of the Nordic mythology who is associated with medical and healing abilities—was introduced at the Faculty of Medicine.

The objective of the EIRA-mentoring programme is to increase the percentage of qualified female researchers and physicians in order to achieve a higher percentage of women in leading positions in medicine and natural sciences.

 

The 1st round of the programme started in 2010 with 19 mentees from different departments and clinics from the university hospital Freiburg. In May 2012, all 19 mentees completed the programme successfully.

During the 1st round of the EIRA-mentoring programme

  • two of the 19 mentees were appointed as senior physicians.
  • three mentees were appointed as chief residents, whereof one mentee was appointed as the provisional head of one section.
  • one mentee was granted an Emmy-Noether group.
  • one mentee was awarded the Margarete-von-Wrangell-Habilitationsstipendium (habilitation scholarship).
  • one mentee was appointed as a project manager and could finance with a successful research proposal her own post.

 

22 mentees participated in the 2nd round (2012 – 2014) of the EIRA-mentoring programme:

During the 2nd round of the EIRA-mentoring programme

  • two mentees were appointed as senior physicians.
  • two mentees were appointed as chief residents.
  • one mentee became specialist and research group leader.
  • one mentee was awarded the Margarete-von-Wrangell-Habilitationsstipendium (habilitation scholarship).
  • three applications for a habilitation have been submitted.

 

19 mentees participated in the 3rd round (2014 – 2016) of the EIRA-mentoring programme:

During the 3rd round of the EIRA-mentoring programme

  • one mentee was appointed as a senior physician
  • one mentee was appointed as a chief resident
  • one mentee was awarded the Margarete-Wrangell-Habilitationsstipendium (habilitation scholarship)
  • three mentees completed their habilitation
  • two habilitations have been submitted

 

20 mentees participated in the 4th round (2016 – 2018) of the EIRA-mentoring programme:

During the 4th round of the EIRA-mentoring programme

  • two habilitations have been submitted
  • five mentees achieved a higher formal qualification level
  • six mentees got awarded scientific prizes
  • five mentees received a post-doctoral scholarship
  • one mentee received a call to a chair

 

20 mentees participated in the 5th round (2018 – 2020) of the EIRA-mentoring programme:

During the 5th round of the EIRA-mentoring programme

  • two mentees took the specialist examination
  • one mentee completed her habilitation
  • one mentee became a junior group leader
  • one mentee was appointed as chief resident
  • one mentee became the manager of laboratory
  • one mentee started with an interim professorship
  • one mentee was approved a DFG-proposal including the funding of her position for 3 years

 

For the initiation and implementation of the faculty-wide EIRA-mentoring programme we were honoured with the Bertha-Ottenstein-Prize in 2011 – announced by the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and endowed with EUR 5000. Bertha-Ottenstein was the first woman in Freiburg and Germany to habilitate in medicine (dermatology). The prize honours therefore innovative projects and outstanding achievements in the field of equal opportunities. Further information concerning the Bertha-Ottenstein-Prize can be found here.

We are part of the Forum Mentoring as well as the “Internationale Konferenz Mentoring in der Medizin” (“international conference mentoring in medicine”) that is networking mentoring programmes throughout Germany and is organising an international meeting every year.