Senate Committee on Sponsorship Issues

 

Duties

• making decisions on awarding scholarships in accordance with the provisions of the Guideline for Scholarship Awards at JGU
• fulfilling tasks of the university's proprietary awards commission pursuant to Section 16 of the Guideline on Scholarship Awards on awarding scholarships to especially talented doctoral candidates in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
• drafting criteria for procedural organization, filing of applications, application deadlines for the awarding of scholarships on the basis of the (university's) guidelines
• drafting resolutions on behalf of the president on the basis of reports prepared by the faculties' representative for equal opportunities regarding the allocation of advancement programs for women such as
  • the award for especially qualified female junior scientists and artists
  • the State's Junior Professorships for the Advancement of Women (4 positions in all)
  • the State's Postdoc positions for the Advancement of Women (2.75 positions in all)
• recommendations are presented by the central representative for equal opportunities.

 
The Committee is partially authorized to make decisions.

 

Composition

Chairperson
Professor Dr. Ulrich Förstermann, Vice President for Research

Management
Waldemar Kowalczyk, Federal Training Assistance Office

Members

• 9 senior university lecturers, of which
  • 4 are from faculties 01-03 and 05-07
  • 3 are from faculties 08-10
  • 1 is from faculty 04
  • 1 is from the School of Music or the Mainz Academy of Arts
• 3 students
• 3 members of the academic staff
• 1 member of the non-academic staff