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Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity

Highlighting and facilitating diversity, promoting equal opportunities for all genders, encouraging girls and women to develop a passion for technology and the natural sciences, focussing on the compatibility of partnerships, family, career and studying – these topics might seem very different, but they have one thing in common. TU Graz takes these socio-political aims seriously and creates the necessary structures to make them a reality.

The Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity supports the Rectorate in implementing these socio-political aims. Colleagues in the office

  • focus on the many different life plans and life phases as well as on possible barriers that may occur in university life due to these differences.
  • initiate processes at TU Graz that help to recognise and make use of the potential that manifests itself in individual differences such as age, religion or belief, ethnic origion etc.
  • encourage young people to develop a passion for technology and the natural sciences - regardless of traditional roles.
  • provide a contact point, service centre and advice centre. 
Daniela Mrazek, contribution to the contest Vielfalt in Bildern, category Vielfalt

Contact

Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity
Mandellstraße 5/I
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 6092

Team and areas of responsibility

Legal Bases

  • Universities act 2002:
    All Austrian universities have the legal obligation to implement measures to promote equal opportunities and  gender equality.
  • The Action Plan for the Advancement of Women (in German: Frauenförderungsplan) contains measures that aim to ensure that the university employs an equal number of men and women and that resources and tasks are shared equally.
  • The TU Graz Affirmative Action Plan (in German: Gleichstellungsplan) contains measures to promote equal rights, balancing work and family life, and to counteract discrimination.

Diversity matters!

The Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024. To mark this occasion, there will be a colorful party on June 5 at the Old Campus to which all TU Graz members as well as companions from the last 20 years are cordially invited. A mix of highlights from 20 years of equality work, live music, buffet, quiz, interactive stations for young and old, children's book reading and childcare await the guests.

Time: 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Place: HS II & Foyer in the Alten Technik, HS II
Registration kindly requested: 
https://survey.tugraz.at/index.php/216583?lang=de

Programme

Tasks of the Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity

  • Development of measures to promote equal rights and the advancement of women in cooperation with the Rectorate, the Working Group for Equal Opportunities and further interest groups
  • Coordination of the implementation of equal rights, the advancement of women and gender research in cooperation with the Working Group for Equal Opportunities
  • Undertaking of strategic projects focussing on diversity management and gender mainstreaming. Examples:
    • Checklist for research design that takes diversity into account
    • Development of terms related to diversity, connected with a student competition for visual design
    • Development of a guideline on gender sensitive language use
    • Involvement in development of gender controlling
    • Introduction of a Service Point for Accessible Learning   
Aldin Hajdukovic, contribution to the contest Vielfalt in Bildern, category Ethnisch

The Team

Management and administration

Gudrun HAAGE
Dipl.-Ing.
Phone: +43 316 873 6078
gudrun.haagenoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

Laura FIGO
Phone: +43 316 873 6092
laura.figonoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY :

Diversity and equal opportunities

Armanda PILINGER
Phone: +43 316 873 6090
a.pilingernoSpam@tugraz.at


AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY :

Hannah ALKER-WINDBICHLER
Mag.phil. MAS
Phone: +316 873 - 6099
h.alker-windbichlernoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSABILITY:

  • Development and implementation of measures on diversity and equity
  • Equality reporting

Philipp ROUSCHAL
Phone: +316 873 - 7096
philipp.rouschalnoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSABILITY:

  • Development and implementation of measures on diversity and equity
  • Gender diversity, LGBTQIA+

 

Lisa MITTISCHEK
Mag.phil. M.A. PhD
Phone: +316 873 - 6091
lisa.mittischeknoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSABILITY:

Super Science Team

Lisa LEITGEB
BEd M.A:
Phone: +43 316 873 6096
lisa.leitgebnoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY :

Karoline DROSCHL-PIERINGER
Mag.phil.
Phone: +43 664 88783190
droschl-pieringernoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

  • Project coordination for school cooperations of TU Graz

Angelika DROISNER-SCHWINGSHACKL
BSc
Phone: +43 664 88783181
angelika.droisnernoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

Maria MUHR
Phone: +316 873 32663
maria.muhrnoSpam@tugraz.at

AREAS OF RESPONSABILITY:

Work/Studies Life-Balance, family and care

Claudia WESSELY
Phone: +43 316 873 6095
claudia.wessely@tugraz.at

 

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY :

Parental and educational leave

Michaela FRÜHWIRTH

currently on educational leave

Lissa REITHOFER

currently on maternity leave