Measures to strengthen diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion at the UFZ
The measures and activities address internal structures and processes, our corporate culture and the targeted support of disadvantaged groups of people.
We understand diversity as the multitude of perspectives and skills that arise from individual backgrounds, experiences and personality traits.
For us, equity means equal opportunities for all employees to realize their potential, i.e. ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities to exert influence, participate and develop individually.
For us, inclusion means actively shaping our organization to create an appreciative, safe, respectful working environment with full belonging and accessibility for all employees.
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- Commissioners, interest groups and conflict counseling centers
- Conflict management forum: collegial exchange between conflict advice centers
- Diversity monitoring: annual key indicator report
- UFZ employee survey (MAB) contains DEI topics
- Inclusion action plan for people with disabilities at the UFZ
- Free indication of preferred form of address and preferred pronouns in the UFZ telephone directory
- Designation of suitable sanitary facilities as all-gender sanitary facilities
- Gender-equitable language
- Gender-neutral or gender-inclusive form of address in IT applications and systems
- Co-design of the Helmholtz Diversity Guideline
- Third-party funded project WAY TO UFZ on diversity-sensitive recruitment (Helmholtz Association funding line)
- UFZ unit Change Management with a focus on DEI, among other things
agreements
- Signing of the Diversity Charter
- UFZ guidelines, e.g. UFZ management mission statement, mission statement for doctoral supervision
- Bilingualism (German and English) in written communication and in all UFZ-wide events
- all job advertisements include a request for applications without photo, age and family information
- all job advertisements contain minimum English language requirements
Job offers
- Lecture series UFZ DEI Lectures with external speakers on topics such as racism in science, sexualized discrimination in the scientific context, men & masculinity
- Further education/courses on DEI topics
- CareerCenter events on DEI topics (e.g. Career Coffee Talk)
- "TOTAL E-QUALITY" award (2022-2024)
- Employee Resources Groups: Postdoc-Lunch, Queer-Lunch
- German-Lunch-Table ("Sprachclub" für Deutsch Lernende)
- Events of the International Café
- Engagement in the Welcome to Leipzig Project of the Leipzig Science Network
- Option to integrate an audio file on your own employee website for the desired pronunciation of your own name
- Contributions to the UFZ Telegraph on DEI topics, especially on international action days
- Information and awareness-raising on dealing with hate speech on the internet
- UFZ podcast contribution in the Helmholtz Resonator on "Change Management and Diversity" (German language only)
- Welcome day at the UFZ for all new employees
- Meet & Eat table in the UFZ canteen as an opportunity to get to know each other
- 2019-2020: Working group of the Scientific-Technical Council (WTR) and recommendations to the management
- Annual hoisting of the Pride flag and awareness-raising on the topic of LGBTQ+ during Pride Month
- Internal presentations, e.g. "Third option: diverse. Gender diversity in the workplace." in UFZ committees and UFZ organizational units
- Currently no measures
Activities
- UFZ Equal Opportunities Officer & Deputy
- Extensive information (website, guidelines, tools, lectures, literature, networks, events, material)
- Individual career advice with an explicit focus on equal opportunities (Career Center)
- Annual participation in Girls' Future Day and Boys' Future Day
- UFZ working group "Equal Opportunities"
- Action plan for equal opportunities for women and men at the UFZ (GEP)
- Participation of the Equal Opportunities Officer in defining the cascade targets and monitoring target achievement
- Active participation in the working group of equal opportunities officers of the Helmholtz Association akfifz and in the Alliance of Equal Opportunities Officers of non-university research institutions AGBaF
- 2020-2022: Equal Opportunities Officer member of the pandemic crisis team
- 2023 Joint application GERLIND for the BMBF funding line "Innovative Women in Focus" (joint application with the Helmholtz Centers of the Earth and Environment research program) (German language only)
Agreements
- Agreement on the promotion of gender equality at the UFZ
- Use of the tool for performance appraisals, tool for calculating academic age
Additional offers
- Series of UFZ Diversity Lectures with external speakers on topics such as women and money, the dependence of women, sexualized discrimination in the scientific context
- Further training/courses for women (e.g. "Communication and power")
- Gender-equitable text and visual language
- Anonymous contact form on the intranet
- Presentations at every UFZ staff meeting by the Equal Opportunities Officer or her deputy
- Women-specific mentoring, coaching and networking programs of the Helmholtz Association and various partner institutions for scientific, administrative and technical staff
- Participation in programs to recruit female professors and junior research group leaders (e.g. programs of the Helmholtz Association and the German government)
For us, the compatibility of care work and gainful employment is part of a life-phase-conscious corporate culture. For us, compatibility means enabling diverse and individual life plans and taking into account the special circumstances of our employees.
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Activities
- Family Support Office with a fixed contact person for advice and support
- Parent-Child office at the Leipzig and Halle locations
- Extensive Information on Reconsiliation of care work and paid work (website, lectures, literature, networks, events, referral to external support and third-party assistance)
- Offer for childcare during UFZ events
- Specifics for families in light of the 2020-2022 coronavirus pandemic
Agreements
- Compatibility is a standard discussion point in the personal annual appraisal interview between employees and managers
- Company agreement on flexible working hours and electronic time recording (German language only)
- Company agreement on mobile working (German language only)
- Regulation for a family-friendly meeting management at the UFZ (German language only)
- Regulatory and organizational framework "Collegial department management" (German language only)
- Where possible: extension of fixed-term employment contracts after parental or care leave
Offers
- Reimbursement incurred during business trips
- Cooperation with various daycare centers and coordination of the placement of crèche and kindergarten places
- School holiday camp at the Halle and Leipzig locations
- Participation in the Helmholtz-holiday camp
Certificates and awards
- Certification for the audit career and familiy from 2013-2022
- TOTAL E-QUALITY Certification since 2022
- Contemporary visual language (e.g. in the depiction of the diversity of family constellations)
- Communication of reconsiliation as an issue that affects everyone, not just women
- Internal lectures, e.g. "Parenthood & Science" at the Career Center Postdoc coffee talk
- Both the Office for the Reconciliation of Care and Gainful Employment and the Personnel Service provide information, advice and arrange external support services.