Ingrid-von-Reyher Award
Mittweida University of Applied Sciences has been awarding the Ingrid-von-Reyher-Prize since 2012.
The prize is awarded to promote equal opportunities for women and men at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences. Current or planned projects, plans or concepts that aim to promote equal opportunities for women and men can be submitted with the publication of the call for entries.
Dr. Ingrid von Reyher (1908-2004) came to Mittweida in 1945 and became the first female teacher at the former engineering school. She taught chemistry, physics and materials science until 1968. In 1998, the town of Mittweida awarded Ms. von Reyher honorary citizenship, the first woman to do so.
The award winners
Dr. Flaviana Tagliaferri and Dr. Mandy Lange-Geisler (2024)
The Ingrid von Reyher Prize for Equal Opportunities went to Dr. Flaviana Tagliaferri from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Dr. Mandy Lange-Geisler from the Faculty of Applied Computer and Life Sciences. Two outstanding female STEM scientists.
Since 2018, Dr. Flaviana Tagliaferri has become an integral part of the Electrical and Automation Engineering group at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the HSMW in our university alliance EURECA-PRO, initially in research and now also in teaching.
Dr. Mandy Lange-Geisler studied mathematics in the diploma and master's programs and received her doctorate in 2019 in cooperation with the University of Groningen. She has been a lecturer in the mathematics department at Mittweida since 2014 and "encourages young women to pursue their professional dreams and achieve their goals". In 2021, she launched the tutorial program in mathematics with the aim of reducing the failure rate and at the same time inspiring student tutors to pursue an academic career in the STEM field.
Kerstin Jacob (2021)
Award for, among other things, intergenerational commitment in senior citizen work at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences.
Ms. Kerstin Jacob is a laboratory assistant in the Materials - Production - Quality department of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and at Professor Leif Goldhahn's InnArbeit Institute. She is highly appreciated there for her warm friendliness and open personality as well as for her technical expertise in disciplines that are still rather male-dominated. The jury agreed with this view of the colleagues. Former Rector Ludwig Hilmer and former Chancellor Sylvia Bäßler presented the award at the Senate meeting on December 8, 2021.
Dorit Bock and the “medienMITTWEIDA” project (2019)
The prize went on the one hand to a scientist from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences: Dorit Bock, a graduate computer scientist, and on the other to the "medienMITTWEIDA" project, represented by the two students Annika Braun and Julia Walter from the Faculty of Media.
Several award winners (2012)
The first prize, endowed with 1,500 euros, went to the Campus Office for Family and Gender Equality.
The second prize was awarded to two students from the Faculty of Media. Erik Hilse and Andreas Hiekel, who developed a concept for the design of Girls' Day.
The third prize was awarded to the Equal Opportunities Working Group of the Faculty of Mathematics/Natural Sciences/Computer Science. The Faculty's Equal Opportunities Working Group was founded in fall 2009 under the leadership of Prof. Regina Fischer. Since its foundation, the working group has worked to improve equal opportunities for women and men at the faculty.