In May 2024, the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) adopts five goals for more gender equitable appointments at its 38th General Assembly.

By joining, the UdK Berlin commits to taking an even closer look at appointment procedures with regard to gender equity and focussing on specific fields of action.

The five goals outlined by the HRK are

1. Active recruitment to expand the candidate pool:
   We will make active recruitment the rule in appointment procedures as an element of strategic personnel management and long-term, future-oriented personnel planning and use it specifically to achieve gender equality.
2. Gender-equitable appointment procedures:
   We will continue to professionalise our appointment procedures and in this way establish gender-equitable appointment procedures on a sustainable basis.
3. Establishment of more gender-equitable remuneration structures:
   We will actively work to further reduce the existing gender pay gap in the remuneration of professorships and thus achieve equality in remuneration structures.
4. Institutional embedding of gender sensitisation and gender competence:
   We will establish regular awareness-raising, training and dialogue opportunities for all university target groups and in this way embed gender competence even more firmly in the institutions.
5. Institutional monitoring:
   We will systematically analyse the current situation with regard to gender equality in professorial appointments at both institutional and subject-specific level by using suitable monitoring tools.

The UdK Berlin already focuses on many fields of action in its appointment procedures, but these measures must be incorporated into the central and decentralised structures of the art university in a sustainable and long-term manner.

Particularly considering the discussion about allocating the right of appeal to the universities of Berlin, gender equity in the appointment of professors must continue to be a focal point.

The work of the UdK Berlin with regard to this self-commitment is regularly entered into the publicly accessible database of the Center of Excellence Women and Science CEWS (www.gesis.org/en/cews/search-and-consulting/search-tools/inka).