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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

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

Guidelines

Guide to gender-fair language for employees, students and lecturers (only available in German)
Guide to diversity-appropriate teaching (only available in German)

Memberships

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

Specializations

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