Career measures can be funded to promote diversity in science and the humanities (e.g. for first generation academics, researchers with a disability or a long-term illness, or for refugee researchers). In the case of new measures in particular, attention should be paid to quality (or quality assurance); if a trainer is involved, care must be taken to ensure that they possess expertise and sensitivity in the area of diversity. Career measures might include the following: 

• mentoring, networking with role models, coaching, 
• soft skills courses and workshops to broaden individual career perspectives, 
• research-specific intercultural training,
• research-specific presentation and language courses, if such courses are not offered at the institution anyway (e.g. academic writing, leading research teams, teaching and committee work, academic self-administration).

• Counselling/support/discrimination counselling by external experts. 
• Orientation/welcome events and networking events, introduction event to academia in Germany/the German research system, aimed at international researchers who are new to it.

In certain constellations, support/relief staff can be financed from the Standard Allowance for Equity and Diversity in the case of absences due to parental leave (more) or long-term illness (more or see www.dfg.de/persoenliche_situationen). Other compensation options are available beyond the Standard Allowance for Equity and Diversity, too. These are available both to overall project managers (or those in charge of individual projects) and the research staff employed on a project. See the above links for details.

Academic relief staff (student assistants/research assistants), e.g. for researchers with a disability or a long-term illness, in accordance with the framework conditions set out under “Compatibility” and “Funding of relief staff”. more

• Travelling expenses for persons accompanying researchers with a degree of disability of 50% or more, unless the additional requirement is covered by the integration authority/employment agency responsible. Under German legislation, a person accompanying a disabled person can sometimes travel with them free of charge, but this does not apply to all means of transport and not always in the event of travel abroad. Additional costs may also be incurred for accommodation and catering for an accompanying person. Such costs can be covered by the Standard Allowance for Equity and Diversity or other DFG funding, providing German social welfare benefits are utilised first and the applicable travel expenses law allows people with disabilities to claim travel expenses for accompanying persons. Your travel expenses office can advise you on this matter. As a rule, costs incurred must be substantiated by receipts if these are available to the employee. 
• Project-specific additional requirements for disability-friendly workplace fittings. Such requirements can only be met in exceptional cases, since the social welfare system (the employment agency, the integration authority, the health insurance company or the pension insurance) generally only covers benefits and additional requirements for equipping a workplace for a severely disabled person, the granting of a status equal to a severely disabled person, or fulfilling the needs of a person with a long-term illness; such benefits must be fully utilised as a matter of priority (supremacy of social welfare legislation). The DFG can only fund this kind of special disability-related, project-specific and research-specific requirement if a negative decision has been issued by the responsible social welfare authority and this authority does not provide funding. Please also check with your employer whether they offer individual benefits. 

It is possible to obtain (pro rata) funding for an office assistant or a coordination office to organise equity measures for researchers within the network with the aim of meeting additional requirements incurred by equity measures applied within a DFG-funded project. The project-specific requirements must be plausibly documented. However, under no circumstances should the majority of the allowance be spent on this measure.