Family friendly since 2004

The University of Hohenheim is the first university in Baden-Württemberg to receive the certificate with permanent character as part of the "audit familiengerechte hochschule" (family-friendly university audit).

Measures from the audit berufundfamilie

Working hours

  • Consideration for family concerns should be encouraged.
  • Office hours for all University members should be set such that family appointments for childcare or care of relatives are not affected.
  • Saturday work must be limited to an unavoidable amount.
  • Flexible working hours can be arranged according to family requirements.
  • Managers permit flexible hours especially for family requirements.

Work location:

  • The commuting situation should be improved.
  • External access to the teleworker's own workspace is enabled to facilitate telework for family reasons. The technical framework for data protection is created.
  • An operating agreement on teleworking is in place.
  • The University of Hohenheim offers regular training courses for interested university employees on the topics of working from home, mobile working, remote managing, digital leadership, and digital working.

Leadership skills:

  • A family-friendly university culture is promoted at all management levels.

Information and communication policy:

  • Information on the topic of reconciling family and career/academics/studies is bundled.
  • Internal communication on childcare and care of relatives is improved. The profile on the Internet is supplemented by the compatibility topic of care for the elderly.
  • The guidelines for one-on-one meetings were expanded to include the issue of compatibility.
  • The information on the website on the topic of family-friendly university will be adapted to the current circumstances.
  • All advising services offered by the University of Hohenheim can be found at the click of a mouse on the intranet:
    https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/guide-to-advising
  • University leadership regularly addresses the importance of family-friendly higher education.
  • The events of the Equal Opportunity Representative will be included in the action program. These include offers on reconciling family and career, living wills, etc.

Personnel development:

  • Family orientation is given special consideration in the planned personnel development concept.

Service for families:

  • The “child care in special situations" is being made permanent / is to be made permanent?
  • The vacation care "Hohenheim Campus Holidays" is to be made permanent in the future.
  • The existing childcare offer has already been made permanent.
  • In planning: The University of Hohenheim has wanted to build a children's house for many years. It would offer 80 places for children from 0 - 6 years of age including a company kindergarten, because the University of Hohenheim is located in the outskirts of Stuttgart and Stuttgart’s childcare is based on the place of residence.

General conditions for study / scientific qualification:

  • Disadvantages incurred in research projects due to maternity and parental leave are to be compensated.
  • The Hohenheim Mentoring Program for female scientists and students "MentHo" will be continued.

Diversity:

  • The university is developing a diversity policy.
    After taking stock of the offerings that already exist in Hohenheim, appropriate measures are currently being developed for the following focal points: Internationality, Gender, and Family.

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