Childcare

Studying or working and raising a child—are these compatible? Yes! If you have good, flexible childcare.

This page contains information on childcare services near the University and about Hamburg's "Kita" or childcare voucher system.

We can help find the right type of childcare for your child!

Parent-child rooms

The parent-child room in the University Administration

The parent-child room at Mittelweg 177 (ground floor, Room S 0014) is available to all University Administration employees for short-term gaps in childcare. In exceptional cases, academic faculty and other University staff members may also use the room. For more information and to register prior to first use, please contact Svenja Saure (svenja.saure"AT"uni-hamburg.de)!

Advance registration required: familienbuero"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Booking requests: loge-mittelweg@uni-hamburg.de(loge-mittelweg"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

Parent-child rooms MIN-Faculty

Bahrenfeld Campus
Building 67, Room 004, Building 6, Room 001 and Building 610 (HARBOR), Room 2026
Luruper Chaussee 149
22761 Hamburg
For registration, booking requests and further Informations please contact Eileen Schwanold (eileen.schwanold"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

Stellingen Campus
Informatikum, Haus C, Room 120
Vogt-Köln-Straße 30
22527 Hamburg

Grindel Campus
Room 1007
Grindelberg 7
20144 Hamburg

For registration, booking requests and further Informations please contact Sebastian Zubrzycki (sebastian.zubrzycki"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

Parent-child room Institute of Psychology
Room E005
Mollerstraße 10
20148 Hamburg

Parent-child room Faculty of Humanities
Room A8001
Von-Melle-Park 6
20148 Hamburg

Parent-child room Department of Asia-Africa Studies
ESA East, Room 107
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, East wing
20146 Hamburg

Flexible childcare

Care Fund
To help address care shortages, you can apply for grants for childcare or care for dependents of up to 600 EUR per calendar year for employees, or 300 EUR per semester for students.
Further details here.

Weekend care at the UKE day care centre (in German only)
The first weekend of every month, the childcare center at the University Medical center (UKE) provides weekend childcare services for children aged 0 to 6. This offer targets UKE staff and students with children as well as students from other universities in Hamburg.

Weekend day care at the KinderCampus (in German only)
You can have your child(ren) looked after by experienced teachers from 10am to 4pm on weekends at the KinderCampus day-care facility.

Childcare near the University

Studierendenwerk Hamburg runs five "Kitas" (combined daycare and nursery school facilities) providing regular supervision for approx. 370 children between one and six years old whose parents are either studying or working at one of Hamburg's universities.

From August 2023 there will also be space for 95 children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years in the newly opened „Kita kinderzimmer Grindelhof“. Applications for admission are already being accepted.

Kita overview (Studierendenwerk webpage)

Parents who want to use one of the Studierendenwerk Kitas must have a Kita voucher.

Kita voucher system

Hamburg's parents have a right to childcare, which is governed by the Kita voucher system. You can find more information about this on the webpages maintained by the City of Hamburg. These pages also contain application forms for Tagesmutter services (subsidized childcare run by one nanny or a team of nannies for small groups of children, in either the nanny's home or separate premises) and aged and nursing care both in and outside of the home.

Application forms for childcare and aged and nursing care (City of Hamburg website - in German only)

The Hamburg Service Portal provides a kindergarten fee calculator (in German only), which will help you estimate how much childcare will cost you on a monthly basis.

Emergency childcare

For all employees of the University

Universität Hamburg offers academic and administrative staff emergency childcare for children up to school entry in cooperation with Elbkinder (also known as Vereinigung Hamburger Kindertagesstätten, an association of childcare providers in Hamburg).

The services are free!

Emergency childcare, close to your home or workplace, is available in all Elbkinder Kitas (combined daycare and nursery school facilities) throughout the Hamburg metropolitan area. The Kitas are open daily from 6 am to 6 pm (until 5 pm on Fridays).

You can visit the facility beforehand for an on-site impression of a given Kita. All Kitas hold open-house days.

Prerequisite

Services are provided under the condition that at least 1 parent cannot fulfill work commitments without emergency childcare.

Emergency/exceptional situations include, for example, the unexpected cancellation of regular childcare, hospitalization of a parent, professional development courses, work-related travel, or other unexpected work-related appointments or assignments. Vacation periods are not considered emergencies as childcare can be planned accordingly.

Registration

If you are interested in the Elbkinder emergency childcare, please register in the Family Office at Universität Hamburg, even if you do not know if or when you will make use thereof. You then receive from us an emergency childcare ID, which you present to the Kita of your choice.

Family Office contact details

Emergency childcare notification

Should you require emergency childcare, please notify the Kita, if possible,1 day in advance. Since many emergencies, however, arise suddenly, parents can also notify the Kita on the same day (e.g., call in at 7 am to drop off a child at 7:30 am). Prior notification by phone is necessary so that the Kita can organize a proper greeting and supervision.

Link to the notification form (PDF, in german only)

Mandatory confirmation

Should you make use of the services, punctually submit confirmation (by phone or email) to the Family Office, if possible before or at the latest on the first day of emergency childcare. State your name, position, the reason for and duration of emergency childcare, and the number of children involved. Confirmation is mandatory for all staff members who make use of the emergency childcare services.

MIN Faculty

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science

Toy boxes

Students and staff might have to bring their children to the campus or the office for many reasons: Perhaps the childcare provider is closed for the day, there is an outbreak of lice at the kindergarten, the nanny has to cancel, a child has just recovered from an illness but is not ready to return to school, or a guest lecturer needs to bring children along over the weekend. To ease the situation for parents and children, we provide portable toy boxes (sponsored by the University's Equal Opportunity Unit). You can borrow one at any of the locations listed below.

Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science

Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Pre- and Early History Archaeology

Hamburg Research Academy

Regional Computing Center (RRZ)

Hamburg Center for Teacher Training (ZLH)

Hamburg Center for Health Economics

Career Center

Campus Center

Loki Schmidt Garden

ZGD – Zentrum Gender und Diversity

Special opportunities for children

University Sports has a special children's athletics program.
The cafeterias run by Studierendenwerk offer children's meals (german only).

Changing tables

See our Family-Friendly University Map (PDF) for information about changing tables and parent-child rooms at the University.

The English-language app UHH global is aimed at international users. It provides international students and prospective students, doctoral researchers and faculty members, as well as visitors to the University with information about the University of Hamburg. A clear overview of the most important topics is offered for each target group. Looking for somewhere particular? Let the app guide you around campus! Click on the family icon for the details of all family-friendly locations on campus—from childcare and advising services to diaper-changing and nursing facilities. Read about and download the app UHH global!