Femtec support program
Femtec – Empower. Connect. Inspire.
Career development for female STEM students during their studies
Calling all women studying a STEM subject who would like to actively shape the future! Are you a pioneer for tomorrow’s world of work, which will be both more diverse and more sustainable?
The career building program is especially tailored for female students of STEM subjects. It connects you with like-minded STEM enthusiasts and offers you room for your own personal development and new perspectives – a place where you can develop and implement ideas together. Over a total of 13 months you have the opportunity to learn all about current trends in project work in three schools with 55 other female students. Taking a practical approach, you can expand your soft skills such as creativity, presentation training, reflection, resilience and a lot more besides.
Attractive offers from our partners provide great entry opportunities, such as internships, theses, direct entry or trainee positions. The program also offers you the opportunity to use individual coaching sessions to define your personal career goals.
Application period
The application period for the next round of the program will be announced soon. Please register on the application portal and submit your application there. After viewing all applications, we invite the best candidates to a one day online assessment center. The final participants are selected on the basis of this assessment center.
Information events
Come and meet us online and receive all the information you need about the application procedure and details about the program. We always invite an alumna to report back on her own personal experience.
Please register via StudOn.
The Femtec information event will be held online soon.
Do you have any questions on the career building program?
All female Master’s students studying a STEM subject are welcome to apply. The program starts twice a year, the application portal opens at the beginning of the semester for the program starting in the next lecture-free period.
You can apply if you
- are a female student at FAU (*Femtec recognizes that the binary concept of man and woman does not reflect everyone’s reality. The program is therefore aimed at everyone who identifies as a woman and at non-binary people.)
- are studying a STEM subject, have commenced your Master’s degree program and still have approximately 1.5 years left to study (ideally you should be in your 1st or 2nd semester)
- are a dedicated team player who wants to set the course for their career as well as take on responsibility early on in business and research.
- have sufficient proficiency in English (B2) and German (A2). (You can check whether your active language skills are equivalent to this level with a free language test.)
The program is held in Berlin. Participants must complete all three schools.
The program does not offer assistance with funding your studies.
The Femtec Career Building Program involves three schools, one each semester. The first school starts at the end of the semester in which you are accepted onto the program. After the first two schools, an excursion lasting several days is organized to various industrial partners. The program is scheduled for a duration of 13 months. The dates for the schools are available here.
During the course of the three schools you will learn about current trends in project work alongside your studies, together with 50 other female students from across Germany. You will expand your soft skills such as such as creativity, intrapreneurship, or learn skills vital for successful intercultural and virtual collaboration. During our innovation lab you will work in a team where you will be able to develop pioneering solutions for the challenges of tomorrow together with our partners from industry, research and academia.
Attractive offers from our partners provide great entry opportunities, such as internships, theses, direct entry or trainee positions. Until then, you will have the opportunity to use individual coaching sessions in the Career Building Program to define your personal career goals.
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What is Femtec?
Femtec GmbH was founded in 2001 with the aim of connecting female STEM students in industry and academia and supporting them in their personal career development. The network provides training to STEM talents even before they are at university and facilitates excellent career prospects for ambitious students with the Career Building scholarship. Diversity program development for organizations and career consulting for professionals are some of the other components offered for strengthening diversity at organizations. Committed women, renowned technology companies and leading scientific institutions and technical universities come together to form the Femtec network.