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#InnovativeFrauen

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#InnovativeFrauen (#InnovativeWomen) is an online platform for women experts from academia, business and society. The aim of the platform is to make innovative women visible on an equal footing, with their achievements and potential as well as their ideas and inventions. Women who have developed an innovative idea, method or product can register.

In addition to the interested public, the platform is aimed at media professionals and event managers. On #InnovativeFrauen they can search for women experts easily and contact them directly.

History and founding

Women develop creative solutions and innovative products, but their achievements receive less recognition than those of their male colleagues. One way of changing this is to increase the visibility of women and their innovative ideas. Excellent women are indispensable for Germany as a location for research and innovation and are a driving force for innovation in our society. For this reason, the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research), within the funding priority „Innovative Frauen im Fokus“ (Innovative Women in Focus), supports projects intended to make the potential and achievements of women in society more visible.1Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (2020): Innovative Frauen im Fokus. Available online at: https://www.bmbf.de/bmbf/de/home/_documents/innovative-frauen-im-fokus.html (accessed on 18 July 2024). 2Sellin, Isolde/Michehl, Vivienne (2023): „Natürlich können Frauen das auch“. In: Wissenschaftskommunikation, interview of 17 April. Available online at: https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/natuerlich-koennen-frauen-das-auch-66079/ (accessed on 30 August 2024). 3Hubert, Merle (2024): Wie können Forscherinnen sichtbarer werden? In: ZeitCampus, interview, no. 3, April/May. Available online at: https://issuu.com/zeitmagazine/docs/zeit_campus_3_24_schwerpunkt_frauen_in_der_wissens (accessed on 30 August 2024).

In 2020, the Kompetenzzentrum Technik-Diversity-Chancengleichheit e. V. (Competence Centre Technology-Diversity-Equal Opportunities) applied for this funding with the idea for the #InnovativeFrauen platform. One year later, #InnovativeFrauen went online. The aim of the project is to make the academic achievements and innovative ideas of women more visible.

Areas of work, services, content and their historical development

The central elements of the platform are a database with informative profiles of innovative women and a digital stage on which the women present their fields of work and research in various formats. Media professionals and event managers have the opportunity to search for innovative women and to approach them, for example, for interviews or events. On #InnovativeFrauen, young women encounter interesting role models who offer them inspiration for their own career paths. Most of the women are available as mentors.4Haaf, Christina/Kompetenzzentrum Technik-Diversity-Chancengleichheit e. V. (2022): Start der Plattform #InnovativeFrauen. In: (idw) Nachrichten Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Press release of 8 March. Available online at: https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2022/03/08/start-der-plattform-innovativefrauen (accessed on 30 August 2024).

In addition to the database of women experts, the platform offers various content formats presenting groundbreaking innovations and the minds behind them. These include the science podcast #ForscherinnenFreitag (#WomenResearchersFriday), inspiring video portraits and an online magazine. The content is disseminated via social media profiles on LinkedIn, X, Instagram and YouTube. Livestreamed talks with women experts on various innovative topics take place at regular intervals.

Furthermore, #InnovativeFrauen offers the women registered in the database the opportunity to increase their visibility themselves. With the Sichtbarkeitsindex (visibility index), an online tool, the women can check their own visibility and receive practical tips.5n. a. (2024): Sichtbarkeit messen und erhöhen. In: Metavorhaben Innovative Frauen im Fokus. Notice of 29 July. Available online at: https://www.innovative-frauen-im-fokus.de/news/sichtbarkeit-messen-und-erhoehen/ (accessed on 30 August 2024). A digital training programme is available to the women experts, e.g. on communicating successfully on LinkedIn.6Sellin, Isolde/Michehl, Vivienne (2023): „Natürlich können Frauen das auch“. In: Wissenschaftskommunikation, interview of 17 April. Available online at: https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/natuerlich-koennen-frauen-das-auch-66079/ (accessed on 30 August 2024).

The platform also features a database of more than 550 science awards. It makes women’s successes visible and encourages other women to apply for awards.

Networks and cooperation

#InnovativeFrauen maintains close exchange with other platforms, including /femconsult, Speakerinnen.org and AcademiaNet. Further cooperation partners include campaigns such as the Wissenschaftsjahr 2023 (Science Year 2023), women’s networks such as Die Chirurginnen e. V. (association of women surgeons) and media such as SHE works!

Organisational structure/funding

The „Plattform #InnovativeFrauen“ is based at the Kompetenzzentrum Technik-Diversity-Chancengleichheit e. V. and is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) under the funding guideline „Frauen in Wissenschaft, Forschung und Innovation: Leistungen und Potenziale sichtbar machen, Sichtbarkeit strukturell verankern“ (Women in science, research and innovation: making achievements and potential visible, anchoring visibility structurally) („Innovative Frauen im Fokus“) under grant number 01FP21070. Registration on and use of the platform and its services are free of charge.

Team

The team of the #InnovativeFrauen platform consists of staff from the areas of networking, multimedia, social media, online editing, press and public relations, technology and administrative assistance. The project is headed by Carola Herbst.

With regard to the Sichtbarkeitsindex (visibility index), the team of the #InnovativeFrauen platform is advised by a group of experts made up of 13 individuals and institutions.

Publications

  • Kompetenzzentrum Technik-Diversity-Chancengleichheit e. V. (2024): #InnovativeFrauen. Exzellent, visionär, sichtbar. Broschüre Best Practice (best-practice brochure). Available online at: https://www.innovative-frauen.de/presse/download (accessed on 30 August 2024).

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Machine translation: This article was translated automatically from the German original.

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