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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!

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: wd.mittelweg"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Parent-child rooms MIN-Faculty

Bahrenfeld Campus
Building 67, Room 004 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, Rm 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 K02
Mollerstraße 10
20148 Hamburg

Parent-child room Faculty of Humanities
1st Floor, Room 01042
Überseering 35
22297 Hamburg

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


Flexible childcare

Casper playgroups (in German only)
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 German only)
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. 

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.

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.

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

MIN Faculty

Psychology and Human Movement

Faculty of Law

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

  • Testothek of the Institute of Psychology
    Contact person: Ines Vester
    Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 4048
    20146 Hamburg
    Tel.: +49 40 42838-8104
    testothek.pb"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Special opportunities for children