Women in Smart Emerging Matter (WISE) Programme

WISE was established by the CRC 1459 as an integral programme to support female researchers at all career levels within the CRC.

Through this programme, we intend to implement significant measures within the CRC to encourage participation and sustain career opportunities of further and existing female high potentials on all career levels, from female scholars to professors. We focus on those actions that are complementary to the programmes of WWU Münster and are especially centred on investigation and change management of gender imbalance and gender issues.

We are convinced that successful senior women act as role models for young women in science, representing topical advisors as well as personal examples. As such we´ve established WISE café and WISE breakfast events with the aim of building a support and mentoring network to strengthen the ties within the research community and to provide guidance on the junior researcher´s career path. In this informal environment we aim to enable discussions between members of our CRC 1459 RTG and female visiting scientists but also female professors within our CRC apart from technical tutorials or lectures. Topics include the senior researchers´ path into science, common hurdles for female scientists and how to overcome them, the role of a mentor and network, work-life-balance, and much more.

Through the support network we will also offer skill training courses in CRC related topics to female students to improve the gender balance on a doctoral and master student level.