Auszeichnung (trans-)disziplinärer Forschungsansätze mit Geschlechterbezug

Rita Süssmuth-Forschungspreis des MKW NRW

Das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen schreibt 2021 den Rita Süssmuth-Forschungspreis für exzellente Forschung mit Geschlechterbezug aus. Der Preis wird in zwei Kategorien vergeben. In der Kategorie „Forschung plus“ wird der mit 50.000 Euro dotierte Preis an eine Forschungspersönlichkeit vergeben, die eine Professur an einer nordrhein-westfälischen Hochschule innehat bzw. dort nach einer Habilitation tätig ist. In der mit 25.000 Euro dotierten Kategorie „Impulse“ richtet sich die Ausschreibung an promovierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler einer NRW-Hochschule.

Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte der Ausschreibung des Rita Süssmuth-Forschungspreises.

The Gender Dimension in Sustainability Policies and Their Evaluation

Special Issue

To overcome the current challenges caused by climate change and COVID-19, societal as well as economic transformation are necessary. In order to prevent the unintended consequences of policies aiming at transformation, it is necessary to take a comprehensive perspective which pursues several SDGs simultaneously. The World in 2050 report (2018: 5) formulates as one of its key messages that transformations to achieve the sustainable development goals require a holistic perspective. “The 2030 Agenda is holistic with deep and complex interactions across the SDG domains. (…) Focusing on individual or selected SDGs—be this during policy analysis or implementation—comes with the danger of adverse side effects related to other SDG domains or missing out and potential synergies and the resulting multiple co-benefits.”

A main driver for societal change in the recent past can be attributed to women—their increasing participation in education and employment, their claim for an equal share of resources and the equal appreciation of their contribution. Developing just solutions combatting the socio-ecological crisis also requires the inclusion of and contribution to women. At the political level, this is reflected in the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as one of the 17 SDGs focuses on gender equality—mainly on equality between women and men. The other SDGs contain a gender dimension which must not be overlooked (Lee, Pollitzer 2020). Furthermore, a broad consensus is reached in science and innovation policy that engaging diverse social groups has a positive impact on policy making as well as innovation (EC 2020).

Further information can be found within the Call for Papers.