Work-life balance and organisational culture

Family-friendly working conditions for students and staff

The university of Bremen has established numerous services to support studying and working with care responsibilities including counseling, training and awareness-raising as well as childcare facilities. https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/familie

In March 2020, the University of Bremen was successfully re-audited for the fifth time in a row as part of the audit family-friendly university of the berufundfamilie Service GmbH. Read more about the University of Bremen’s achievements with regard to a family-friendly university: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/familie/awarded.

Gender and diversity competence as a management task

With the project "go d!verse -gender- and diversity-competent personnel selection in academia", the University of Bremen aims to reduce discrimination and biases in personnel selection procedures and to strengthen diversity in science. go d!verse addresses HR managers as well as early career academics. The team develops lectures, consultations, workshops and awareness-raising actvities, which sensitize decision-makers to unconscious biases. https://www.uni-bremen.de/chancengleichheit/hochschul-und-geschlechterpolitik/go-diverse

The Gender Consulting for Research Alliances develops gender and diversity trainings and awareness-raising activities focusing on academics associated with research alliances funded by the German Research Foundation. This includes offers specificly tailored to principal investigators and researchers in leadership positions. https://www.uni-bremen.de/chancengleichheit/training-und-beratung/chancengleichheit-in-forschungsverbuenden