With the Agnes Mackensen Program, we strengthen the self-efficacy of first-generation academics and promote their digital, scientific and entrepreneurial leadership skills. In doing so, we are intertwining the diversity dimensions of gender and social origin and are thereby raising TUM-wide awareness.
The program is named after the first woman to study at TUM, who obtained a diploma in 1915 and is therefore considered the first graduate (and beyond that did not have an academic family background!). It is initiated by the Staff Unit Diversity & Inclusion of Senior Vice President for Talent Management & Diversity Prof. Dr. Claudia Peus.