About the EXENKO project
The EXENKO research and practice project, funded as part of the BMBF's “Innovative Women in Focus” funding line, asks: What is scientific excellence and how does it become visible? Studies show that a male bias in the perception of performance and excellence means that female scientists and their excellent achievements receive less visibility and recognition both in public and in their specialist discipline. The aim of the project was to explore the role that university communication plays and can play in this complex process. The central finding is that there are still too few communication bridges between female academics, especially postdocs and those responsible for communication at universities. Dialogues and exchange formats between the stakeholder groups can help to reflect on common notions of performance and excellence against the background of the structural conditions in the higher education system and thus jointly improve the visibility of female academics in the long term.
