Best Practice – Equal Opportunities Office – Leibniz University Hannover

Leibniz University offers a wide range of structures and services at the central level to prevent discrimination and promote diversity among students and staff. These are complemented by tailored and innovative initiatives within the university’s departments, faculties, and institutes. We are excited about the commitment shown by those involved and the excellent programs and initiatives that are the result:

GUIDELINES & CONCEPTS

#Aktiv! gegen sexualisierte Gewalt | #Take Action! Against Sexual Violence
Code of Conduct on Violence Prevention from the Center for University Sport
Code of Conduct for Faculty, Students, and Staff
Code of Conduct from the Performing Arts study programme
Code of conduct from the dggö-conference at LUH, 2023
Code of Conduct from the Institute of Health Economics
Managing diversity and inclusion in schools
A key topic in teacher education

NETWORKS & WORKING GROUPS

Network FemMatrix for female scientists
from the life sciences, natural sciences, and medicine
Staff Council: AG Diversity
to promote diversity and inclusion at LUH
FLINTA* in stem
Open Meetup for FLINTA* Students in STEM study programmes
Get-together for students with disabilities and chronic illnesses
Every first Monday of the month, 6:00 p.m.
Diversity-AG at the Institute for Special Education
Initiatives and programmes on diversity and anti-racist education
AG Diversity at the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science
Promoting Educational Equity and Equal Opportunity at ETINF

Diversity measures at the faculty of law

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at QuantumFrontiers

Statement in Support of an open teaching and research environment at the Institute of Landscape & Architecture

Women in the Collaborative Research Center TerraQ

Measures at the Faculty Electronics and Computer Science

FINTA*-Room at the Faculty Electronics and Computer Science

Events

2025
Lecture Series “Changes in Sexual Criminal Law,” Faculty of Law, Pia Pielhaus & Dr. Maximilian Nussbaum, 09.04.-09.07.2025
2024
Challenging the system: thinking about identities in stem, Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr. Anneke Steegh mit FLINTA* in stem, 17.01.2024
Opportunities and Limitations of Gender Equality Activities in Higher Education Settings, Sarah Peters mit FLINTA* in stem, 06.11.2024
Gender-sensitive language from a linguistic perspective, Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr. Gabriele Diewald mit FLINTA* in stem, 04.12.2024

Current courses on gender and diversity topics

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