The Rowena Morse Mentoring Program (RMMP) is a support program for young female scientists and artists at Thuringian universities. The program is named after Rowena Morse, who was the first woman to successfully complete her doctorate in Thuringia in 1904.

The interdisciplinary program supports female doctoral candidates in the final phase of their doctorate and female postdocs in the orientation phase on their individual career path. During the program period of 12 months, specific workshops for further qualification are offered in addition to the placement of mentors. In the context of peer mentoring, the mentees network with (young) female scientists from other Thuringian universities and are accompanied in group mentoring sessions by experienced professors from Thuringian universities. 

The next program period will begin in November 2023.

The program is financed by the Thuringian Competence Network for Gender Equality (TKG). The basic concept was developed at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and further developed in the Mentoring Working Group of the Thuringian Competence Network for Gender Equality as a joint concept of the Thuringian universities.

Application documents to be submitted:  

• Curriculum vitae in tabular form

• Letter of motivation

• Letter of recommendation from a superior or supervisor

Application deadline: 13 August 2023

Applications to: glechstellungsbuero[at]uni-weimar.de

Further information on the call and application modalities can be found here. 

For interested female applicants, a university-wide information event on the RMMP will be held in online format on 08 June 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm. At this event, the mentoring program will be presented by the program coordinator. In addition, participants of the currently running cohort 2022/2023 will report on their experiences. A Q&A session on the program will follow. To participate in the event, please register by email at kontakt@tkg-info.de by June 05, 2023. The access data for the event will be sent after registration.