Diversity: Contacts, Projects & Events

We work closely with external counselling services and experts on a wide range of topics, including institutions on sexualised violence, student services, family support centres, participation counselling and organisations for first-generation students. In addition, we maintain active internal networks, including with the student parliament and various student working groups, such as the Queer Kollektiv working group in Weihenstephan and the Queerfeldein working group in Triesdorf.

Regular dialogue with our partners ensures that we are always up to date professionally and enables us to identify needs at an early stage and further develop our services in a targeted manner. In this way, we strengthen the quality of our work and help to ensure that staff and students receive fast and customised support.

We use various formats for this: from small group meetings and thematic working groups to larger events such as Diversity Days or topic-specific workshops.

Staff and students are cordially invited to get involved with their own topics or suggestions for cooperation! The Diversity Office supports you with networking and implementation and is open to new ideas. Please get in touch with us at: diversity@hswt.de.

Sexualised discrimination, harassment and violence includes verbal and non-verbal as well as physical assaults. HSWT takes a firm stance against any such behaviour.

If you have experienced or observed sexualised discrimination, harassment or violence, you can contact the Diversity Office. Sina Hörl, Julia Kamann and Dorena Moegenprovide support with initial and referral counselling, making appointments with external counselling centres, accompanying you to appointments and possible internal HSWT action.

However, it isimportant that those affected decide for themselves whether and what further steps they want to take!

It generally makes sense to create a memory log in such situations. This documents the incident and, if necessary, secures evidence such as text messages. Our template for a memory log can be used for this purpose.

HSWT staff who are affected by sexualised discrimination, harassment and violence also have claims under the General Equal Treatment Act ( AGG ), for example for compensation or damages. However, a statutory deadline must be observed in order to assert these claims. The claim must be asserted in writing to the employer within two months of the incident or from the time the person concerned learnt about it. We will also be happy to advise you on this. Detailed information can be found in the guidelines on the website of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency.

The HSWT also works with external counselling centres on the topic of sexualised discrimination and violence:

• Campus Weihenstephan: HilDa
• Campus Triesdorf: Rauhreif e.V.

At the bottom of this page you will find the leaflet „No to sexualised violence“, the policy against discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual violence at the HSWT as well as further information and links on the topic of sexualised violence.

Discrimination includes racist, sexist, derogatory, queer-hostile and other forms of structural devaluation and disadvantage. These can be of a verbal, non-verbal or physical nature.

If you have experienced or observed discrimination, you can contact the Diversity Office. Sina Hörl, Julia Kamann and Dorena Moegen provide support with initial and referral counselling, making appointments with external counselling centres, accompanying you to appointments and possible internal HSWT action.
However, it is important that those affected decide for themselves whether and what further steps they want to take!

It generally makes sense to create a memory log in such situations. This documents the incident and, if necessary, preserves evidence such as text messages. Our template for a memory log can be used for this purpose.

HSWT staff who are affected by discrimination also have claims under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG), for example for compensation or damages. However, a statutory deadline must be observed in order to assert these claims. The claim must be asserted in writing to the employer within two months of the incident or from the time the person concerned learnt about it. We will also be happy to advise you on this. Detailed information can be found in the guidelines of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency.

The Diversity Office can advise you on issues relating to the compatibility of work/studies and family (e.g. pregnancy, childcare or caring for relatives and loved ones).

The Diversity Office is happy to help with general concerns relating to diversity at the HSWT. For example, we support lecturers with questions about gender or with the organisation of workshops in their department.

Once a year in May, a series of events is organised around the nationwide Diversity Day. The Diversity Days offer the opportunity to actively engage with the topics of diversity and anti-discrimination and to help shape and promote an open university culture. The events include workshops, lectures, training sessions, informal picnics and film screenings.

As a dimension of diversity, social background has an influence on our life path. First Generation Academics are students and academics who were the first in their family to find their way to the University of applied sciences. In cooperation with the "Zehntelsekunde" action weeks organised by the city of Freising and the Chancen network, the realities of life and experiences of „first gens“ were given visibility in an evening event and offered space for exchange.

The Orange Days initiated by UN Women take place annually around 25 November, the International Day against Violence against Women. The days of action set an example for respect, self-determination and non-discriminatory coexistence. The Diversity Office provides information about services in the area of sexualised violence and offers workshops that deal with behaviour that violates boundaries.

Together with external advice centres, the Diversity Office regularly organises workshops for different target groups on sexualised violence. Among other things, they discuss how to recognise and set your own boundaries, what legal affairs exist and how HSWT can provide better support for those affected.

The HSWT offers the „Gender- and Diversity-Sensitive Teaching“ certificate. The certificate gives lecturers at the HSWT the opportunity to reflect on diversity dimensions and their influence on the university context. Each winter semester, events are held to shed light on the topic.

• For students: Counselling Network Munich Student Union + General and Social Counselling (Freising)
• Freising: Legal Advice Service for students
• Psychotherapeutic and psychosocial counselling centre of the Studentenwerk (Munich)
• Freising: University community
• Triesdorf: Psychological-psychotherapeutic counselling centre of the Studentenwerk Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Triesdorf: Overview of the counselling centres in Ansbach

• Advice centre Weihenstephan: HilDa
• Counselling centre Triesdorf: Rauhreif
• Online portal: Bavaria against violence
• Leaflet of the StMAS „Domestic violence against men“
• Free Legal Advice Service: feminist law clinic
• Leaflet „No to sexual violence“
• HSWT Policy Against Abuse of Power, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence
• MIM Munich Information Centre for Men (services for victims of violence, anti-aggression training, group therapy, etc.)

• Career and study-related counselling for the hearing impaired
• EUTB: Supplementary independent participation counselling

• German Society for Transidentity and Intersexuality dgti e.V.
• diversity Munich
• Proudr - LGBT+ network for jobs
• Munich: sub
• Munich: LeTra
• Nuremberg: Fliederlich
• Queer Network Bavaria

• Freising: Family support centre
• Freising: Care support centre