In order to foster an inclusive and welcoming working environment, FVB organizes various activities to enhance the visibility of women in science and to raise awareness of gender inequality and unconscious bias. FVB supports the reconciliation of family and work, taking into account all employees’ family commitments.

Aims and measures can be found in the Gender Equality Plan of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (2020-2025).

The individual institutes have taken a number of initiatives, including flexible working hours based on internal flexitime agreements, individual agreements on part-time work due to family circumstances, the creation of a children’s or family room, the provision of a quota for emergency childcare, and measures against sexual harassment.

Details are laid down in the Gender Equality Plans of the institutes. Each institute has developed its own plan according to its structure in order to better tackle the different equality aspects as well as to further promote a more equal and inclusive working environment. Further information can be found on the websites of the institutes.

• Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
• Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
• Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ)
• Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW)
• Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)
• Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI)
• Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)

Since 2001, the Forschungsverbund Berlin has awarded the Marthe Vogt Prize to a young femals scientist who has written an outstanding PhD.

In the Marthe Vogt Podcast, female doctoral students, postdocs, and junior researchers of FVB share stories about their journey to science, their motivations, hardest challenges, biggest achievements, and their life beyond scientific research.

An issue of the FVB's Verbundjournal in 2021 also focused on "Women in Science".