Family-friendly University

To provide family-friendly working and studying conditions, Esslingen University has a number of activities in place at all levels and in all areas. Since receiving certification as a family-friendly university through an audit by the berufundfamilie (job and family) Service GmbH in 2006, our measures have been systematically structured and extended.  Esslingen University also wants to remain an attractive employer and educational provider for new staff and students.

We hope to improve the satisfaction of staff and students in reconciling family responsibilities with work or study.  

We understand “family” to be a union of partners or a multi-generational community with parents, children, siblings and grandparents.  This union or community is characterised by the fact that its members take responsibility for each other.

A selection of measures that are already in place

• Advice for students and staff with caring and childraising responsibilities by the Family-friendly University Service Centre.
• A child-care centre for the children of students and staff between the ages of 1 – 3 on the Hilltop Campus, Flandernstrasse, run by the Student Union
• Family-related matters are taken into consideration in the way the courses are organised, for example:

• provision to extend study times, deadlines, and periods for practical placements/internships
• rooms for breastfeeding and nappy-changing on all the University’s campuses

• Family-related matters are taken into consideration in organising working hours, for example:

• flexible working hours
• alternating teleworking
  

• In making academic appointments, and when assessing academic qualifications, Senate may not use irregularities in the person’s C.V. against them, for example, career breaks or reduced working hours due to caring for a child/children or dependent relatives.

Goals for 2017.