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Dates 2023

In 2023, the children's holiday program will take place as follows:

- Easter break: 03.04 to 06.04 (4 days).

- Pentecost break: 30.05. to 2.06. (4 days)

- Summer break: 24.07. to 28.07. + 31.7. to 04.08.

- Fall break: 16.10. to 20.10.

Registrations are accepted by the Family Service Office in Kaiserslautern, contact: Leslie Schleese, Tel. 0631/205-4323 or by e-mail.

To the website of the children's holiday program.

Since November 2017, interested parties as well as actors who deal with diversity issues at RPTU have been meeting. Two public dates are planned for the second half of 2022:

29.09.22- 14:00-15:30
Research and teaching considering diversity aspects.
Dr. Stefan Löhrke, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Teaching and Dr. Werner R. Thiel, Vice President for Research and Technology are invited to attend.

The panel discussion will take place in the RPTU Rotunde (Building 57), if the corona pandemic allows it. For better planning, please register at  cornelia.roevekamp(at)verw.uni-kl.de by one week before the event.

15.11.22 - 14:00-15:30
University Communities at the University.
Invited speakers are Annette Klinke, Consultant for International Relations and Ecumenism, Association of Protestant Student Congregations in Germany / Hannover and Kaan Orhan, Chairman of the Council of Muslim Students and Academics (RAMSA) / Cologne.

For better planning, it is requested to register at cornelia.roevekamp(at)verw.uni-kl.de until one week before the event.

The Family Welcome Day (FWD) with the president took place online on 11/23/22. 

For the 20th time, the president invited to the welcome event; student and employed parents gladly accepted the invitation to talk with the university management and exchange ideas with other parents.

In addition, the family service of the RPTU was presented. An impulse lecture on the topic of child day care (day care mothers/day care fathers), by the speaker Tatjana Käfer, Department of Youth and Sports, City of Kaiserslautern, rounded off the offer. A welcome gift with merchandising articles of the RPTU the child was sent in advance.

Facts about the Family Welcome Day

• Staff and student parents from Landau participated for the first time.
• Among the 44 invited families there were 37 employed and 7 studying parents.
• 3 female professors and their offspring were welcomed.
• To the ranking of all departments of the invited parent couples:
• 1st place: FB Mechanical and Process Engineering and the Administration (6 couples each),
• 2nd place: DISC (4 couples),
• 3rd place: FBe Civil Engineering, Physics and Biology (3 pairs each).
• More than 470 welcome gifts have been presented since the first event in fall 2013.

The next FWD will be held in May 2023; registration and information are available from the Family Service Office, Email: schleese(at)verw.uni-kl.deor by phone, Leslie Schleese, Tel. 0631/205-4323. 

A great success was the grand opening of the new parent child room in the LASE building. 

The inauguration of the new parent-child room in the LASE building took place on 4.5. in beautiful sunshine and good mood. Besides speeches and acknowledgements by the President Prof. Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, the Equal Opportunity Officer of the SFB's SPIN + X Prof. Bärbel Rethfeld and the Family Service Office, a tour of the new room followed. Especially the young guests marveled at the child-friendly room, where even a real tree has found its place. The physical well-being was provided, so that the exchange of the guests could take place under best conditions.

The EKZ with the motto Palatinate Forest was financed by the special research area SPIN + X and the staff unit Gender Equality, Diversity and Family Affairs and designed by the interior designer Eva Stidtgen and the Family Service Office.

We are looking forward to many guests, especially fathers with their children. The room can be reserved here: www.uni-kl.de/hosting/ekzlase

Pictures can be seen here: Photos EKZ Building 76 - RPTU (uni-kl.de)

In 2021, the RPTU applied for the Total E-Quality award for the second time and was positively evaluated. In addition to the predicate for equal opportunities, the add-on diversity was also applied this time. We are pleased that our work at RPTU has been honoured by the jury. The jury notes that "in recent years there have been ... positive structural developments regarding the active promotion of women in the context of recruitment and staffing. In addition, there are diverse measures for individual career development."

The promotion of a family-friendly university is also highlighted. The jury decided that "measures to balance family life with studies or work ... are profound" and that innovative approaches are implemented, such as the consideration of fathers in the activities carried out.

Diversity activities were also rated positively: "Many different actors are well networked in working groups," said the jury. "Under the heading of anti-discrimination, all dimensions of diversity are addressed.

However, it is also noted that further tasks should be pursued:
- Developing goals related to all diversity dimensions in the (future) University Development Plan.
- The expansion of thematic executive training as well as the integration of gender equality goals.
- Reducing the workload of women in their in their committee participation, and
- Evaluations related to all diversity dimensions

The RPTU is on the right way. However, we will certainly follow further goals in order to promote a diversity-friendly university.

There is a changing table in building 3/018 and another resting mattress for pregnant women, which can be borrowed from the staff office.

In addition to the children's corner, families can now also find another changing room in the main library, which is located in building 32/room 105.4. You can get the key at the information desk of the main library. 

The fourth edition of our brochure is now available online:Studying and Working at RPTU with children

As part of the mentoring project of the gender-equality-diversity-and-family-affairs-office, students and employees of RPTU have access to a new advisory platform in the form of the mentoring marketplace. They receive answers from mentors on the following topics: studying, research, planning a career, networking, the university system, career/study and private life, and overcoming obstacles.
Especially in times of the Corona crisis, the platform can help to deal with the special situation or to plan further steps in studies and career.
The online platform is funded by the Higher Education Pact (Hochschulpaktmittel) of the programe line "More Participation of Women in Science", so that the offer can be used primarily by women and parents.
To access the online platform, an OpenOlat account is required, which is available to all members of the RPTU with the usual user name and password.
Click here to go to the  Mentoring-Marketplace

RPTU has signed the Diversity Charter and set a clear signal for diversity and tolerance.

By signing the Diversity Charter, we are signalling our commitment to creating a working environment that is free of biases and that shows respect for all our employees, regardless of their gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

Diversity management is a trans-sectional issue. The idea behind it:A diversity-oriented organisation enables all employees to contribute their potential.  It also promotes the diversity of ideas or products for which the organisation stands.More and more companies and institutions are noticing these advantages: around 3,000 corporations, companies, public institutions, associations, foundations and federations have now signed the Diversity Charter.  Approximately 13 million employees benefit from it.

We are very pleased to be part of the largest diversity network in Germany and to be able to promote and shape diversity together with you. Feel free to contribute your own ideas on how diversity can be lived at RPTU!

The Diversity Charter is an initiative to promote diversity in companies and institutions under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. More information on the content of the Diversity Charter and the points to which we have committed ourselves by signing it can be found here.

Anyone who is affected by or observes discrimination can contact the following contact points contact points.

The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (LADS) RLP also offers counselling. Free legal advice is available there; contact: antidiskriminierungsstelle[at]mffjiv.rlp.de

In a study on experiences of discrimination  at RPTU, observed and self-experienced discrimination was described. The results of the survey provide a basis for developing measures in this area.

The University offers means for pregnant students and single student parents. Please apply at the Family Service Office.Further information may be found here.