10 years of supporting female students with travel stipends

With the Female Student Travel Award, the collaborative research centers CROSSING and MAKI, the research training group Privacy & Trust, and the LOEWE center emergenCITY recognize exceptionally well performances of female students in computer science, electrical engineering, and information technology (incl. all degree programs with significant computer science/electrical engineering components such as cognitive science, computational engineering, business information systems, mechatronics, biomedical engineering). The eight winners can attend one of the listed conferences, which are focused on connecting female researchers in computer science and engineering, to take advantage of the excellent networking opportunities during these events.

The conferences

Winners can attend one of the following conferences in person:

• Informatica Feminale and Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni (16/08 – 31/08 in Bremen, Germany)
• ditact Summer Studies (21/8 – 2/9 in Salzburg, Austria)
• Ada Lovelace Festival (14/9 – 15/9 in Berlin, Germany)
• ACM Celebration of Women in Computing (20/9 – 22/9 in Trondheim, Norway)
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (26/09 – 29/09 in Orlando, USA)
• Women Engineers (WE) Conference (26/10 – 28/10 in Los Angeles, USA)

Application

Please apply with a letter of motivation, your CV, your personal performance summary (TUCaN-Leistungsspiegel), and a description of your connection or interest to the field of research of MAKI, CROSSING, the RTG Privacy & Trust or emergenCITY. Optionally you can include which conference you attended or plan to attend.