The Humboldt University of Berlin has adopted an ambitious programme of measures to transform itself into a family-friendly university.
Administrators and teachers will be expected to find flexible solutions to ensure the compatibility of career, study and family, utilising opportunities that arise from digitisation and offering options such as family-friendly work and study hours, and mobile work.
Pilot projects on how to improve the compatibility of career, study and family will be tested and, if they prove promising, implemented. Meanwhile, all legislation and internal regulations governing teaching, research and administration 鈥渨ill be continuously reviewed with respect to the compatibility of career, study and family鈥.
The mission statement, adopted by the university鈥檚 academic senate earlier this month, adopts a wide definition of family to include not only all forms of 鈥渃hild-parent communities鈥 鈥 鈥渟ingle parents, patchwork families and rainbow families鈥 鈥 but also 鈥渃are communities鈥ibling relationships, marriages and marriage-like partnerships, and persons who provide care for dependants鈥.
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