About CEWS

CEWS Website

CEWS mandate is to provide knowledge transfer and extensive information about all topics related to gender equality and women in science and research.

Our German website is an important tool for fulfilling this task. It serves as a platform for offering information services such as frequently updated, relevant news, statistics, various databases, and CEWS publications, all related to our main area of interest and our expertise.

Our English website is there to inform the international audience about CEWS and there you can find information about the CEWS team and their expertise, about our current and past activities and projects, and about our collaborations.

Assignment

CEWS - Center of Excellence Women and Science is the national hub for realization of equal opportunities for both women and men in science and research in Germany. CEWS serves as a think tank for this political field, offering impetus for new ideas, initiating processes of change in support of science as well as actively creating and engaging the necessary transfer processes between science and politics.

Operating in an international sphere, both independently and in cooperation with other institutions, CEWS executes German and EU projects, connected with equal opportunity policy as well as good practice measures at the highest levels.

Since its founding in 2000, the science-based service offering has been systematically and purposefully further developed in order to even more effectively fulfill the social contract. CEWS staff posses comprehensive know-how in the areas of:

  • social science research on equal opportunity for men and women in science;
  • policy consultation;
  • knowledge transfer; and
  • monitoring and evaluation of equality measures in science.

These skills coalesce, generating synergy effects that, in turn, continually increase the benefit for the target groups. As a science and research-based service provider, CEWS makes women scientists, universities, research and scientific institutions and political committees its services available.

Only by exhausting the available potential of highly qualified women scientists will the German science system be able to ensure and build up university, teaching and research excellence in this country.

Institutional Affiliations

CEWS was founded in 2000 as a third party funded project, 100% financed through the BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research, for an initial five years. In 2003/04 it was successfully evaluated by an external agency.

To enable the institution to continue its successful work, a decision was made in 2005 by the Bund-Länder-Kommission für Bildungsplanung und Forschungsförderung (BLK) – The German Federal and Laender Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion to integrate tasks of CEWS into GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.

Since January 2006, CEWS – with no changes in task assignment - is part of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.