Equality, gender & diversity
Goals & activities about Equality, gender & diversity
It is important to us to promote the equality of all people in all areas of society and to create awareness of the relevance of “gender” and “diversity” at Ferdinand Porsche FERNFH and in teaching.
Equal opportunities and diversity are among our core values. Hence Gender & Diversity Management is firmly established not only in our “Vision 2022”, but also in the statutes of FERNFH. We have set ourselves the following goals:
- To actively promote equality between men and women
- To prevent other discrimination
- To make and align decisions and developments in consideration of gender mainstreaming
- To promote the diversity skills of all employees
Besides the above-mentioned qualitative goals, we also strive to achieve balanced representation of men and women at all levels and in all areas. This involves:
- Increasing the proportion of students in the degree programmes in which they are underrepresented
- Increasing the proportion of men and women in the bodies in which they are underrepresented.
Ongoing measures and activities
- Implementation oft the re-certification university and family
- Development of measures for a balanced gender representation of students with the degree programmes
- Advice on gender and diversity aspects in projects, project applications and theses
- Incorporating equality and diversity goals in the recruiting process
- Participation in the research program “diversity in organizations”
- Annual equality report
- Permanent committee “gender and diversity”
Planned measures and activities
- Presentations or discussions regarding the current specialization
- Generation of an equality and diversity plan
- foundation of an LGBTIQ+friends student group with the Students’ Union
- Generation of a code of conduct
- Possibility of anonymously reporting violations regarding equal treatment and valuation as well as regarding the code of conduct
- Implementation of the project “Nestor Gold for age appropriate organizations”
Completed measures and activities
- Firm establishment in the Ferdinand Porsche FERNFH statutes and values
- Browser-based software Readspeaker for all students to read out texts on the Online Campus
- Courses on “Diversity Management” in the degree programmes
- Implementation of the project “equal pay” for evaluating salary structure
- Third gender input and possibility of a gender neutral addressing in applications and during studies
- Implementation of gender neutral toilets
- Barrier-free website and building
- Adaptation of rights for same-sex partners
Transparency is an important success factor for us, which is why we take measures to promote it. This also applies to complaints, reports of misconduct, feedback and concerns of all kinds on the topics of equality, gender & diversity, whistleblowing and human resources management and development. You can insert all your concerns here.
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- Guide to gender-fair language for employees, students and lecturers (only available in German)
- Guide to diversity-appropriate teaching (only available in German)
- Member Uniability (only available in German)
- Member of ERFA Gender & Diversity of the Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences
- Member of Charta of Diversity (only available in German)
- Member of queer@hochschulen
- Current specialization: "Studying without a general university entrance qualification"
- Completed specializations:
- LGBTIQ-friendly FERNFH
- eAccessibility
- University and family
- Development of an online workshop to encourage gender and diversity competence
- Strategic orientation of G&D aspects
- Conceptualization of an equality report
- Wenzel, Günther/Walenta, Christa/Wahl, Ingrid (2019). Flexibilität und Struktur am Beispiel einer Lehrveranstaltung im Blended-Learning-Design. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 14(3), 91-101.
- Wahl, Ingrid/Walenta, Christa (2018). Mehr Zeit und bessere Vereinbarkeit durch Blended-Learning? Befragungsergebnisse von Studierenden eines berufsbegleitenden Studiengangs. In Imke Buß/Manfred Erbesland/Peter Rahn/Philipp Pohlenz (Hrsg.), Öffnung von Hochschulen: Impulse zur Weiterentwicklung von Studienangeboten (S. 233-254). Wiesbaden: SpringerVS.
- Neuwirth, Erich/Wahl, Ingrid (2017). Effects of the similarity between mentees and mentors on the evaluation of the ‘Mentoring for Migrants Program’. International Journal on Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 15(2), 140-154.
General
- Psychological counselling for students
- Arbitration body’s office for students
- Recommendation of the association of universities of applied sciences for the dissemination of gender competences in higher education processes (only available in German)
Studying and Family
- Studieren.at - Studying with children (only available in German)
- ÖH Austrian Student Union - Studying with children (only available in German)
- Studieren mit Kind (only available in German)
- Family counselling
People with disabilities and chronic illnesses
- Family counselling on the subject of disability (only available in German)
- ÖZIV association for people with disabilities (only available in German)
- Austrian Federation for the Blind and Partially Sighted
- Austrian Federal Dyslexia Association (only available in German)
- Austrian Association for Autism Support (only available in German)
- Studying with a disability: Funding opportunities (only available in German)
- Help.gv – studying with disabilities (only available in German)
- Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs: Students with disabilities (only available in German)
- SCHOLARSHIP – Study funding for people with disabilities
- Contact point for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses (only available in German)
LGBTIQ*
- Queer unit of the Austrian Student Union (only available in German)
- queer@highereducation (only available in German)
- NonBinary Universities (only available in German)
Support for an easier start to studies