The Centre for Gender Studies (ZG) is an academic teaching and research institution at Paderborn University and was founded in 2008 at the Institute for Education Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. In addition to networking within and outside the university, the main concerns of the ZG are the further development of interdisciplinary gender studies in research, studies and teaching as well as the development of further education and counselling opportunities in the field of gender studies.

For this reason, we regularly organise various information and event formats and participate in internal and external university activities that serve to impart knowledge and promote exchange. The tasks of the ZG include, in particular, the coordination and supervision of the interdisciplinary Master's programme "Gender Studies" in the two-subject area "Culture and Society" as well as the accompanying certificate "Gender Studies". In addition, the ZG offers a free online training programme on the topic of gender in educational practice: Schule. Gender. Simple. Digital. The ZG's current projects include the BMBF project "Gender as a category of analysis in university research and knowledge contexts" (GeFoWiss).

The ZG's services are aimed at all members of Paderborn University as well as external interested parties. In fulfilling its tasks, the ZG particularly values interdisciplinary cooperation within and outside Paderborn University. Please feel free to contact us! You are also welcome to subscribe to our e-mail distribution list.