Office for Equal Opportunities and Family Affairs

As a place of inspiration and diversity, Kempten University offers all university members an appropriate framework in which to implement their individual life designs. The Office for Equal Opportunities and Family Affairs is your point of contact on campus so that you can manage everyday demands resulting from the different phases of life. The Office provides assistance and support on every aspect of the topics “Equal Opportunities” and “Family Affairs”, and, in addition, it also coordinates offers made to employees and students alike so that they are in a position to better balance family and work/studies and to shape their professional perspectives.

Mit ihrer Arbeit unterstützen die Mitarbeiterinnen im Büro für Gleichstellung und Familie die Frauenbeauftragte sowie die Gleichstellungsbeauftragte und den Gleichstellungsbeauftragten der Hochschule bei der Umsetzung von Maßnahmen zu Chancengleichheit, Gleichstellung und Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Studium/Beruf. Weitere Informationen zu den Aufgabenfeldern der Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten finden sich hier. Als Angehörige der Erweiterten Hochschulleitung finden sich Inhalte zu den Tätigkeiten der Frauenbeauftragten außerdem auf der Seite der Hochschulorgane

Equal opportunities

• Mentoring programme BayernMentoring for female students in the STEM faculties,
• University forum for competence development and professional orientation,
• Ring lectures around the topics gender and diversity,
• Information events on the occasion of the Equal Pay Day,
• Events organized in cooperation with the Career Service,
• Projects within the scope of the networking initiative "Komm, mach MINT" (“Come on, go STEM”),
• Practical application tips for gender-friendly communication.

Family-friendly University

Studying with children:

• Personal counselling in the Office for Equal Opportunities and Family Affairs, support and assistance with regard to the organization of studies,
• tips about financing a course of studies with children,
• information portals “Studieren mit Kind (Studying with Children)” and “Pflegende Angehörige (Family Carers) [in German],
• regular parents’ get-togethers,
• check list “Studieren mit Kind (Studying with Children)” [in German],
• events organized in cooperation with the Career Service and the University Sports Association.

Work and children:

• Personal counselling in the Office for Equal Opportunities and Family Affairs
• support and assistance with regard to parental leave and return to work after parental leave,
• information portals “Beruf mit Kind (Work with Children)” and “Pflegende Angehörige (Family Carers) [in German],
• making working conditions more flexible,
• overview of processes “FamilienPflegeZeit (Family Care Time)” in the University Wiki under vitwiki.hs-Kempten.de/wiki/Familien-/Pflegezeit [in German],
• events organized in cooperation with the university staff training programme “LernZeit” and the University Sports Association.

Family-friendly infrastructure:

• Family corner in the canteen,
• free kids’ meals for children of students in the canteen,
• family parking spaces for student carers,
• several breastfeeding and baby-care facilities on campus.

Childcare services:

• Childcare for children of up to three years at the children’s group “Campuszwerge”,
• care of school-age children during the school holidays with the CampusKids,
• flexible short-term care for students’ children; i.e. hourly childcare during special events, should childcare be needed or in other cases of emergency,
• flexible care according to individual needs owing to the babysitter exchange,
• mobile parent-and-child study rooms in two buildings on campus, the so-called KidsBox.