Award Ceremony of the Margherita von Brentano Prize 2023
Award Ceremony of the Margherita von Brentano Prize 2023
Dr. Mechthild Koreuber, the long-standing Central Gender Equality Officer at Freie Universität Berlin, was honored with the Margherita von Brentano Prize 2023 on January 23, 2024. The award is presented every two years by the university's Executive Board in recognition of individuals or projects for achievements in gender research or gender equality. Mechthild Koreuber receives the award for her initiative to promote gender research in mathematics and the STEM subjects as well as for her many years of outstanding commitment to greater gender equality at Freie Universität Berlin and far beyond, according to the explanatory statement. Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott, the FU's First Executive Vice President for Gender Equality, emphasized that "Mechthild Koreuber has established important structures in the area of gender equality during her time as Central Gender Equality Officer at Freie Universität, which have had a lasting impact on the university to this day and with which Freie Universität has set standards nationwide. These range from the regular integration of aspects of gender research into all academic and examination regulations of the BA and MA degree programs to the establishment of sustainable structures for the protection against sexualized discrimination, harassment and violence to specific offers for female students in the natural sciences (MINToring)."
Program
Welcoming
Prof. Dr. Günther M. Ziegler
President of the Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Ina Czyborra
Senate Department for Science, Health and Care
Laudationes
Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger,
Chairwoman of the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)
Andrea Güttner
Chancellor of the Freie Universität Berlin (mdWdAb)
Prof. Dr. Ralf Kornhuber
Institute of Mathematics
Short Movie
„Gespräche mit Emmy Noether“ des porträttheater wien e.V.
Awarding of the prize to: Dr. Mechthild Koreuber
Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger, First Vice Chairwoman of Freie Universität Berlin
Words of Thanks
Dr. Mechthild Koreuber
Musical Closing
Prof. Maria Baptist
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
Moderation
Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig
Lateinamerika Institut der Freien Universität