The Franziska Braun Prize is named after the first female student to attend the TH Darmstadt in 1908. Franziska Braun is first female student to enroll at the TH Darmstadt in the Department of Architecture. This heralded the beginning of a new era. Franziska Braun conquered a field of study that, up to this point in time, had been closed off to women: science and technology. The TU Darmstadt honours its female pioneer by naming its gender equality prize after her.
The prize is given for best-practice models for recruiting women in and for research and academics at the TU Darmstadt on all levels of qualifications (“from students to professors”).
Best Practice Models
- Concepts
- Measures
- Projects
- Innovative ideas and approaches
Target groups
- Responsible organisational units (e.g. departments, institutes)
- Groups of people (e.g. group projects, research groups)
Prize winners
2022: Department of Chemistry/ : “Be with it! – Schülerinnen und Studentinnen für grüne Innovationen der TU Darmstadt begeistern” (how to inspire female pupils and students for green innovations of TU Darmstadt) Teaching methodology of Chemistry
2020: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for the „Konsekutive Schülerinnen-Projekttage“ project (Consecutive Girls’ Project Days)
2018: Department of Computer Science for the “Conference of Aspiring Students in Tech Rhein-Main” project
2016: Collaborative Research Centre MAKI (Multi-Mechanisms Adaptation for the Future Internet) for its gender equality concept
2013: Collaborative Research Centre 805 for its “Achilles High Heel” project for “Optimierung lasttragender Systeme” (optimisation of load carrying systems)
2011: Department of Computer Science for the “LAN Party Girls Only” project