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Equal Opportunity
Equal Opportunity Unit

Photo: UHH/Jens Torsten Möller

Committees and actors

Equal opportunity representatives at Universität Hamburg

At the University, there are, in addition to the institutional equal opportunity commissioner for academic staff pursuant to Section 87 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act (HmbHG), a network of equal opportunity representatives in the individual faculties pursuant to Section 89 subsection 6 HmbHG. Furthermore, there are equal opportunity commissioners for technical, library and administrative staff pursuant to Section 18 of the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Act (HmbGleichG).

Equal opportunity representatives in the faculties

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science

Faculty of Business Administration

Regional Computing Center (RRZ)

Equal Opportunity Committee

The University’s Equal Opportunity Committee is a committee of the Academic Senate. It includes the representatives of various status groups: four professors and one member each of academic staff; technical, library and administrative staff; and the student body.

Current committee members (in German only)

The committee submits recommendations for resolutions to the Academic Senate, particularly on (cf. Section 85 subsection 1, especially point 9 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act):

Dates Winter term 2023/24

Further equal opportunity contacts at Universität Hamburg

University network for equal opportunity activities

  • Conference of equal opportunity representatives – Everyone involved in equal opportunity work at the University is invited by the equal opportunity commissioner for academic staff twice per semester to exchange thoughts and ideas.
  • Equal Opportunity Network – The Equal Opportunity Unit invites all those responsible for implementing equal opportunity measures at Universität Hamburg—in particular those in the faculties and collaborative research projects—to meet and exchange ideas every three months at its Equal Opportunity Network.

External networks for equal opportunity reps

  • LaKoG - Conference of equal opportunity reps at universities in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • bukof - National conference of university women's affairs and equal opportunity reps

Contact

Henriette Lier
Staff code: -G1-
Equal opportunity advising
Mittelweg 177, Room N 0063
20148 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9322
Fax: +49 40 42731-0128
Deputy: Dr. Jara Schmidt, Franziska Horn