AVL Focus - 75 Years Special Edition

THE AVL MOBILITY TREND MAGAZINE

The Road to Success

Is ­Diverse

Diversity is valuable and facilitates better progress and

innovation. For a long time, little attention was paid to this

fact in motorsport, but by consciously promoting female

engineers and developers, and focusing on diversity in the

race teams and engineering teams, the AVL motorsport de-

partment is also working hard to utilize and expand existing

­competencies.

2023 sees the launch of a dedicated program within AVL

that invites female engineers to participate in training and

exchange programs. This Female Engineer Program has two

goals: to promote female engineers in the field of motorsport

and to act as a role model for future generations. The aim is

to systematically remove hurdles and inhibition thresholds

for talented young women. For an innovation-driven com-

pany like AVL, it is out of the question to leave the potential

of talented people untapped. The Female Engineer Program

involves practical workshops on the topics of race technolo-

gy, simulation, testbeds, and driving simulators. Assignments

at the racetrack with teams with whom AVL RACETECH

cooperates, as well as individual career coaching, round off

the program.

By embracing

diversity, we are

transforming the

future of motorsport

at all levels to benefit

together.

In general, the promotion of talent within AVL RACETECH

is of great importance. The development of the brand

­ambassador portfolio shows that not only successful racing

drivers, such as Tatiana Calderon (Formula 2, among others)

or Ferdinand Habsburg (Le Mans winner 2021) are signed,

but also talented youngsters from karting and motorcycle

racing as an investment in the future.

AVL RACETECH Brand Ambassadors: (from left to right) Lena Kemmer (AT), Laura Bubenova (SK), Luca Schlegl (AT), Yasmeen Koloc (CZ),

Tatiana Calderon (CO), Liam Müller (DE), Ferdinand Habsburg (AT), Jonas Müller (DE), Finn Gehrsitz (DE), Aliyyah Koloc (CZ)

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