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Goals & activities about 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.

Our goals

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.

Measures and activities

Currently the following measures are implemented:

Firm establishment in the Ferdinand Porsche FernFH statutes and values
Online workshop to develop gender and diversity skills among students, lecturers and employees (only available in German; a guest account is available for initial information, please click “Log in as a guest”)
Contact: Studying and disabilities
Browser-based software Readspeaker for all students to read out texts on the Online Campus
Carrying out the University & Family audit
Courses on “Diversity Management” in the degree programmes
Free online qualification courses for candidates without a general university entranee qualification
Advice on gender and diversity aspects in projects, project applications and theses
Implementation of diversity projects
Consideration of equality and diversity objectives in application and staffing procedures
Member of ERFA Gender & Diversity of the Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences
Member Uniability – ARGE zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen und chronischen Erkrankungen an Österreichs Universitäten und Hochschulen (only available in German)
Member of Charta of Diversity (only available in German)
Member of Forschungsprogramm "Diversität in Unternehmen"
Collaboration in the “Diversity in Companies” research programme
Guide to gender-fair language (only available in German) for employees, students and lecturers
Guide to gender-neutral language of the European Parliament
Guide to diversity-appropriate teaching (only available in German)
Uniability guide for students (only available in German)
Member of queer@hochschulen
Current focus: "Studying without a general university entrance qualification"

News about gender & diversity

EDEN Annual Conference, Jönköping, Sweden 2017. Diversity matters. Information at: www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/jonkoping/
Wahl, Ingrid/Walenta, Christa (2018). Mehr Flexibilität und bessere Vereinbarkeit durch Blended Learning? Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Studierenden eines berufsbegleitenden Fernstudiums. In Imke Buss/Manfred Erbesland/Peter Rahn/Philipp Pohlenz (eds.), Öffnung von Hochschulen: Impulse zur Weiterentwicklung von Studienangeboten (pp. 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. More information at: ijebcm.brookes.ac.uk/documents/vol15issue2-paper-09.pdf

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