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Equal Opportunity Offices

Bureau de l'égalité de chances, Université de Neuchâtel: Contains information on upcoming workshops, activities, its daycare facility, programmes and links to related offices in French speaking Switzerland.
Department of Equality of Women and Men at the University of Bern.
Femmes et Université/Frauen und Universität, Fribourg/Freiburg.
Bureau de l'equité, EPFL
Chancengleichheit von Frau und Mann, ETHZ
Federal Office for the Equality of Women and Men

Databases / Mentoring / Networks

femdat - Swiss Database of Women Experts
Swiss Conference of Gender Equality Delegates brings together federal, cantonal, and communal equality offices. It supports and implements activities of national scope, takes a hand in shaping public opinion and works with the federal legislation in order to incorporate women and gender equality concerns.
Gender Campus Switzerland
- Quadrilingual information and communication platform concerning Gender Studies and Gender Equality at Swiss universities
Mentoring Deutschschweiz
Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes
mentorNet - Electronic mentoring programme for women in academic careers
plusplus.ch - a Swiss network promoting equality of women and men in professional and family life (German, French and Italian)

Programmes / Funding

PRO ->WISS - Programme for professional support of women in academic careers: information platform, seminars, courses (in German)
SNSF - Women in Research: contact Silvia Baldi, scientific collaborator & equal opportunities officer
Marie Heim-Vögtlin Grants - Funding opportunity of the SNSF for female scientists with a degree or doctorate to resume their careers after interrupting or greatly reducing their research work. Half- or full-time grants for 1.5 up to 3 years. A grant may also be awarded for completion of studies by a thesis. Application deadline is May 1st.
EMBO and women in the life sciences & restart fellowship program - The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has established a restart fellowship program (duration up to 2 years) for scientists who have taken a break in their careers for childcare. In cases where the break lasted three or more years, a retraining program is included as well.
Conférence universitaire suisse - "Egalité des chances" / Schweizerische Universitätskonferenz - "Chancengleichheit"
Bundesprogramm - "Chancengleichheit von Frauen und Männern an den schweizerischen Fachhochschulen" / Programme fédéral "Egalité des chances entre hommes et femmes dans les hautes écoles spécialisées"m.htm

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