HfMT Hamburg receives award and distinction in the Female Professors Program 2030

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The HfMT Hamburg was included in the Female Professors Program 2030 of the federal-state initiative for equality and diversity in science and was also awarded the title "Equal Opportunities Strong University". With its submitted equality concept for parity, it is one of the universities whose strategies and measures were particularly convincing in the nationwide competition.

"This award is both a confirmation and a mandate for us," emphasizes President Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick. "We see gender equality as a structural cultural change that can only succeed through solidarity and cooperation - within our university and across universities. Our goal is to further develop gender equality in the fields of Music and Drama not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively and sustainably."

The HfMT Equal Opportunities Officers Dr. Silke Wenzel and Prof. Karin Holzwarth are also delighted with this success! "In recent years, the University of Music and Drama has worked intensively and at many different levels to anchor equality as an important and lively part of the university culture: not only in job procedures, but also in artistic areas, in teaching and research. Being awarded the title of "university with strong gender equality" is a wonderful confirmation of this work and at the same time an obligation to continue on the path we have begun. The funds from the Women Professors Program enable the HfMT to provide special support for women on their way to professorships."

The Women Professors Program is a joint initiative of the federal and state governments on the basis of a federal-state agreement based on the Basic Law. In its current program phase until 2030, it supports universities in increasing the proportion of women in professorships and at the same time anchoring structural equality concepts in a binding manner. The HfMT Hamburg's gender equality concept combines quantitative objectives - such as a sustainable increase in the proportion of female professors - with qualitative reforms. These include transparent and quality-oriented appointment procedures, the targeted promotion of female artists and academics in early career phases, structural gender equality controlling and the strengthening of decentralized gender equality work. As an artistic-academic university, the HfMT closely links gender equality with its guiding principle of "artistic excellence in social responsibility". The aim is to change structures in the long term and to sustainably strengthen future generations of women in Music and Drama.

The HfMT's initiatives include the student-initiated and programmed festival "Feminale", which will take place again this April, the research project MUGI: Music and Gender on the Internet, which has been running for more than 20 years, and numerous individual initiatives to get more female composers on stage, such as Ethel Smyth's opera "Fête Galante" from March 20-23.