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University & family
Despite, or maybe because of the organisation of our form of study as distance learning, the emphasis at Ferdinand Porsche FERNFH is on people. As an employer, and also as a university, we want to offer our employees, lecturers and our students the best possible conditions for balance between work and study and family and leisure time.
Goals in the field of university & family
- Implementation of a sustainable, family-conscious, life phase-oriented university policy
- Support of students and employees with care responsibilities
- Creation of a family-friendly infrastructure at the university
- Further development of a family-friendly work organisation
- Theme of University & Family as part of teaching and research
Family-friendly measures
Study organisation
- Website area on the subject of “Students with care responsibilities”
- Adaptation of the examination regulation
Science & teaching
- Inclusion of topics on the “compatibility of university and family” in research interests and theses
- Continuous development of teaching methods for even more flexibility for lecturers and students
Place of work
- Integration of employees’ wishes and needs into the planning of the new location as of 2019
- Furnishing of a family room with a play corner for students and staff with their children
- Expansion of the existing Mobile Working Directive
Work organisation
- Substitutions for sudden unplanned absences due to family responsibilities
- Internal family representative as a point of contact for students and employees
- Internal and external communication measures to raise awareness
Qualification and leadership
- Further development of a family-conscious management culture
- “Stay connected” measures for employees on parental leave
Information and communication policy
Internal awareness measures for the topic of “compatibility of university and family”
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