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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!

Service: Parent-child room

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"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Parent-child room in the CliSAP cluster of excellence

Grindelberg 5, Room 107
To register, book, and gain further information, please contact the cluster's equal opportunity officer:
Nicolli Povijac (nicolli.povijac"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

Building 67, Room 111
Luruper Chaussee 149
22761 Hamburg


Flexible childcare

Casper playgroups
Studierendenwerk Hamburg has also set up so-called Casper playgroups to ensure regular childcare in the late afternoon and early evening, a service for students and employees alike. You do not need a Kita voucher to use Casper!

Uni Eltern
In addition to childcare services offered by Studierendenwerk, the parent initiative Uni Eltern provides last-minute childcare of up to eight hours per week. This primarily targets parents with small children requiring daycare or parents who want to return to their studies or workplace quickly and require flexible hours. You do not need a voucher to use UniEltern services.

"Zwischenspeicher" – Family room at the informatics campus
Students and employees in the MIN Faculty can also find last-minute childcare at the Zwischenspeicher on the informatics campus in Stellingen. You can consult the flyer (PDF) or Zwischenspeicher's concept leaflet (PDF).

Weekend care at the UKE day care centre
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. See Konzept (PDF) for details on this particular  service.

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

Mobilé—flexible childcare
Mobilé  provides flexible childcare for students at Hamburg universities and UKE staff. Childcare is available outside of regular daycare hours for children between 8 weeks and 6 years old. You can get childcare for 2 to 6 hours and 1 overnight stay per week. The childcare if offered at your home or in a UKE daycare center. This serivce will remain free until December 2018.

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.

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.

Click here for the kindergarten fee calculator provided by the City of Hamburg, which will help you estimate how much childcare will cost you on a monthly basis.

Emergency childcare

For all employees of the University

MIN Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Law

Special opportunities for children

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.

Where to borrow a toy box:

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