The berufundfamilie Service GmbH certifies the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen (HWG LU) in December 2020 for the 7th time the renewed successful implementation of the audit family-friendly university. As one of the longest certified universities, HWG LU thus receives the certificate permanently and without any restrictions.
As part of the dialogue process, the existing offers for the compatibility of study, work and family were assessed and an action program of family-friendly study conditions as well as a family-conscious personnel policy was defined. The resulting measures will be implemented within the next three years.
Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences has already been audited since 2002 - as the first university nationwide - as a family-friendly university and sees a family-conscious orientation in dealing with employees and students as an integral part of its organization.
Demographic change, the increasing career orientation and rising qualifications of women, the changed understanding of family roles, the development towards a knowledge society and the importance of knowledge as a competitive factor are just some of the social and economic developments that bring the issue of reconciling work/study and family into focus and highlight the need for family support and a family-conscious personnel policy.
The fundamental intention of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences is to achieve a balance between university interests and the interests of employees and students. This is reflected, among other things, in
- a relaxed educational and work situation for students and employees with family responsibilities,
- equal opportunities between employees and students with and without family responsibilities, and
- efficient deployment of personnel and a reduction in dropouts and study duration.
Over the past 18 years, Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences has implemented a wide range of measures, such as establishing the issue of work/study/family balance as a permanent topic in all management and leadership meetings, a flexible working time model, home office, family-friendly infrastructure such as breastfeeding and nappy-changing rooms, taking into account the special situation of students raising children or caring for relatives in study and examination regulations, mission statement, development of an in-house continuing education program and introduction of company health management.
For the next three years, the university has set itself goals that will deepen the family-conscious personnel and student policy and anchor it even more firmly in the university culture. The sustainability of the measures already implemented as well as the newly agreed measures should thus be ensured.
In this context, the university has set itself the following measures:
- Use of digitalization to further develop family-friendly working and study conditions.
- Integration of the topic "compatibility of work and family" into teaching by means of a self-developed e-learning module as well as a gender toolbox.
Contact:
Christiane Schweikert
Officer for Equality and Occupational Health Management
Tel. 0621/5203-236
E-mail: Christiane.Schweikart@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de
