FiNuT 2007

Congress of and for women in
Science and Technology

About the Congress

The first german-national meeting of women in scientific and technical occupations and academic subjects took place 1977 in Aachen. There 66 female scientists, technicians and craftswomen exchanged experiences about their situation in the traditionally male dominated jobs with eachother.
The congress of women in natural science and technology (FiNuT), that arose from this, takes place annually since 1981 on the AscensionDay's weekend in alternating cities. The Participants are from technical, mathematical and scientific disciplines. The FiNuT congress offers a unique opportunity for an exchange of experiences without borders of technical disciplines, groups of status or disciplines. The continuity in the history of the congress - it's the 33rd - points at the need for such a meeting for the promotion of women in natural science and technology and their job-related networks.
The interdisciplinary congress of women in natural science and technology addresses itself to women, who work, who learn/study and/or who research in the still strongly man-dominated scientific, technical and mathematical vocational fields. Representatives of adjacent disciplines, like e.g. the medicine-, the society-, culture- and social sciences and the gender research participate actively in the FiNuT congress, too, so that a broad interdisciplinary knowledge transfer between nature and technique sciences develops on the one hand and for the social and society sciences on the other hand. Likewise active women from Non-Government-Organisations(NGOs) at the interfaces of the natural sciences, the technologyeffect research and the woman and gender research get included, in order to manage a transdisciplinary exchange between the academic and the non-university range. In particular for multiplicators e.g. equal opportunity commissioners the congress is an important training further educating and exchange platform. The students quota among the participants is very high.
For the participants the congress is a forum, on which they can exchange eachother about their working situation, do active networking, dicuss their work by content and by structure and develop it. Many junior scientists use the congress as a forum to present their work.

Congressteam
TechNaM Association