2023, we celebrate 10 years of supporting female students with our travel stipend

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. 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.

For the two stipends offered by CROSSING, students of all our CROSSING research partner universities can apply, i.e. female students of TU Darmstadt, University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Paderborn, and University of Regensburg are eligible.

Save the Date

Notifications will be sent out by mid of June and the awards will be presented to the winners during the “Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture” on 23 June 2023 from 1 to 3 pm. The speaker at this event will be Prof. Dr. Eleni Chatzi from ETH Zurich. Please block this date.