Biology laboratory at the University of Jena

Academic career

Equal opportunities and diversity in academia
Biology laboratory at the University of Jena
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

News

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Familie
"Young City Jena"
Anyone visiting Jena will inevitably notice one thing: the city is young and full of ideas. With an average age of 42.9 years (2021), people between 18 and 40 make up the largest group in the population. They shape with their young families the cityscape and the vibrant atmosphere. And that is no coincidence.

Gender equality

Doctoral hat made by a research team, with colourful molecule balls on springs.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Equal opportunities for doctoral candidates
Promoting gender equality in the doctoral phase
Two male researchers and a female researcher at a large device in a physics lab
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Equal opportunities for postdocs
Gender equality on the home stretch to a professorship
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Gender and sexual diversity
Information for LGBTIQ* people

Diversity

Mother and toddler on a bench in a park—the mother is reading, the toddler is playing with a mortarboard
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Parenthood and academia
Balancing academic career and care work
Female student in wheelchair speaks in seminar group
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Managing health, disability & chronic illness as a researcher
Inclusion, preventive health, and counselling services
Globe is thrown into the air
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Doctorate and postdoc—International
Welcome and support services for international mobility
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First-generation PhD de
Information for pioneers in academia

Graduate programmes relevant to diversity

Doctoral students standing in front of the ‘Zur Rosen’ building, home to Jena's Graduate Academy
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Graduate programmes relevant to diversity
at Friedrich Schiller University Jena