Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity

Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity of Department 7 is composed of representatives of professors, academic staff, administrative-technical staff and students. The composition of the team is based on the interest of the participants and was confirmed by the departmental council. The chairmanship of Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity is currently shared by Prof. Dr. Markus Prechtl and Melissa Meinel. Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity meets twice per semester.

Below you can view the reports of the meetings of the team if you log in to the page with your TU-ID. We try to keep the English translations of the German reports updated.

Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity was created on the occasion of a survey at Department 7 in order to be able to counter discrimination proactively and reactively. Measures are decided upon to increase the awareness of the members of Department 7 for forms of everyday discrimination and to help create an atmosphere at the department in which challenges are openly discussed. In addition accessibility and the compatibility of family, studies and career are promoted.

The task of the team is based on six fields of the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) which are primarily relevant for discrimination (age, disability and chronic diseases, ethnic origin/racism, gender, religion/belief, sexual identity) supplemented by the central guidelines of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Currently it is planned to focus on two of these fields per semester and to initiate adequate measures. Among other things the inclusion of a passage on the prevention of discrimination and with contact points in case of discrimination in all internship regulations is planned. These are supplemented by action-guiding recommendations for the leaders of the work groups who use their function as multipliers to instruct all participants.

In order to be able to work as effectively as possible, Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity depends on a comprehensive picture of the situation in the department. Therefore please feel free to send information about existing problems or suggestions for improvement to the e-mail address antidiskriminierung@chemie.tu-[…], which can be accessed by all members, or to individual members of the team. If you prefer to get in touch anonymously, you can address a letter to

Team Anti-Discrimination and Diversity

to attention of Markus Prechtl

Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4

64287 Darmstadt

Please also contact us if you are interested in participating as a member of the team in the promotion of (gender) equity in Department 7. An addition to the team or succession of previous members can be considered at any time and, if necessary, decided in the following departmental council meeting.

Protection agains discrimination in praktika in accordance with the General Equal Treatment Act of the Federal Government, the Hessian Equal Rights Act and the equal opportunities concepts of the TU Darmstadt and the Chemistry Department.

Have you experienced or observed discrimination?

Contact the internship supervisor or contact persons on the department's complaints and help website .

Discrimination on the grounds of course of study, ethnic origin, gender, religion or ideology, disability, age or sexual identity will not be tolerated at the Department of Chemistry. This applies both to dealings with each other in general and to conduct in supervisory situations and in the awarding of grades in particular. Discrimination can occur within a status group or between members of different status groups and includes actions as well as the spoken and/or written word. The internship supervisor expressly asks that cases of such discrimination, whether experienced personally or observed by third parties, be communicated. Contact persons can be supervisors or the internship supervisor as well as other contact points listed on the department's complaint and help website .

At the beginning of 2020, the Department of Chemistry conducted the first survey on experiences of discrimination among students and staff. The questionnaire was developed by volunteers from the FEM-Runde and the Equal Opportunities Team and distributed to students via TUCaN and to work group leaders via e-mail. After a period of about three weeks, the survey was closed and analysed by the same team. The anonymised cumulative results were presented to the departmental council in summer 2020. For reasons of more comprehensive protection of the participants and the non-statistical significance, access to the survey results is only granted on request by e-mail. The questionnaire can be downloaded below.