The Career-Building Programme is designed for three semesters and prepares female STEM students specifically for professional practice and future management tasks. In terms of content, the programme consists of several modules: in the summer and winter schools, training on current topics from professional practice, career development and career building is offered. Field trips to the partner companies of Femtec GmbH provide the opportunity of establishing contacts at an early stage. Individual career advice and membership of the lively Femtec Network contribute to your personal and professional development.

The bi-annual schools of the Career-Building Programme usually start in March and September and continue for a week. The schools of the first two semesters finish with a four-day field trip. A total of three consecutive and interrelated schools will be completed.

The current school dates can be found here.

Femtec offers you the following benefits:

• Free seminars, workshops and field trips
• Exclusive contacts and career entry opportunities with partner companies
• Participation in an Innovation Lab project
• Individual support and consultation until your career entry
• Membership of the Femtec Network

In addition, Femtec GmbH takes care of the bus transfer between the field trip locations. Femtec will also cover the costs for accommodation and meals such as breakfast and lunch during the field trips.

The accommodation in Berlin, as well as meals and transport, are to be organised and provided independently by the scholarship holders. This also applies to the journey to the first field trip location as well as the journey home on the last day. Some partner universities offer partial scholarships to cover travel and accommodation costs. Please contact your local university coordinator for further information.

With the Career-Building Programme we would like to encourage and support you during your studies and your career start. We are committed to ensuring that more talented young women successfully complete their studies and are successful and take joy in their careers. In return, Femtec expects its scholarship holders to actively participate and engage in the programme. Participation in the first school and field trip week is mandatory to take part in the Career-Building Programme. It is also required that scholarship holders are matriculated at one of our partner universities for the entire duration of the programme. If the mandatory conditions are not met, this may lead to exclusion from the programme. We expect a high level of engagement from you, which will also be shown to you by all participants in the Femtec Network.

The Career-Building Programme is aimed at female students in STEM faculties from cooperating Universities:

• RWTH Aachen
• TU Berlin
• TU Braunschweig
• University of Bonn
• TU Dresden
• FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• University of Stuttgart

You should be in the master’s or diploma programme (no doctorate degree), about 1.5 years before graduation. It is necessary that all scholarship holders are enrolled at one of the partner universities for the duration of the Career Building Programme. English and German language skills at level B2 are required.

Unfortunately, students from other universities cannot apply.

You can apply for the programme twice a year in spring or autumn (usually April/October). The exact dates will be announced in advance on the Femtec website. You can apply online using our application tool Campus.

The assessment centres are conducted online via Microsoft Teams with one appointment per university. You can find the dates here.

The assessment centre takes place between 9 am and 4 pm. There will be breaks in between. It consists of a group task, an individual task and an interview.

In addition to representatives of your university, partner company representatives and alumnae will be present as observers. There will also be an opportunity to meet current scholarship holders and the other applicants, as well as ask questions so you can get to know us better, too.

We won’t ask you any technical questions but would like to get to know you and your motivation on a personal level.

The Career-Building Programme is designed for a standard duration of 13 months. Please apply only if you are able to participate in the next school, which would be your first one (the upcoming school dates can be found here).

The second or third school might be postponed in individual cases (e.g. due to study or work-related stays abroad), which would prolong the programme. Such a postponement is possible a maximum of two times in the duration of the entire programme participation. Please note that the first school cannot be postponed. If you are unable to attend the first school, you will be excluded from the programme.

With your application you agree to the use of your data within the following guidelines:

• Your application for the Career-Building Programme takes place via our digital platform Femtec Campus. The data you enter there can only be viewed by employees of the Femtec coordinator at your university and by employees of Femtec GmbH until the end of the pre-selection period (usually one week after the application deadline).
• In case you receive a rejection after the pre-selection, your data will be deleted.
• Until the end of the selection phase, your data will only be available to the people involved in the selection process. These are employees of Femtec, your university and our partner companies who will participate in the assessment centre as observers. You can find the current partner companies on our website.
• In case you are rejected after the assessment centre your data will be deleted after the end of the selection phase.