Diversity unit

Coburg University of Applied Sciences actively embraces the diversity of disciplines and their cooperation, the plurality of teaching and learning approaches, research focuses, personalities and points of view, educational and work biographies as well as transfer and interaction paths.
We promote participation and equal opportunities, tolerance and respect and create the basis for an appreciative approach to the diversity of world views and interests.
Our aim is to convey an awareness of complexity and an increased sensitivity for sustainable and responsible action.
Diversity encompasses a broad range of people and ways of life within society: it aims to recognize and value all people regardless of their social, ethnic, etc. background, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender identity. It aims to recognize and value all people regardless of their social, ethnic, etc. origin, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or world view, age, physical or mental abilities or other characteristics.

In the strategy and development paper “On the way to University 2030”, Coburg University of Applied Sciences made a clear commitment to diversity. Coburg University of Applied Sciences successfully completed the diversity audit process “Shaping diversity” of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in 2018, the diversity re-audit process was successfully completed in 2022 and Coburg University of Applied Sciences has been awarded the diversity certificate of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
Coburg University of Applied Sciences participates in the German Rectors’ Conference’s open-minded university campaign.
We attach great importance to fair and respectful interaction with one another.
Everyone at the university – students and staff alike – are called upon to work together respectfully at all levels and to cultivate a culture of respect.
The Head of the Diversity Department, Dr. Kishan Veerashekar, also supports the university community in his role as Diversity Officer and Anti-Discrimination Officer.
As an open-minded educational and research institution, the university takes a clear stance against right-wing extremism.
We are part of the alliance against right-wing extremism in the Nuremberg metropolitan region.
The compatibility of family and studies or career is also a central concern of Coburg University of Applied Sciences.

We train more than specialists.
We train people.
We develop personalities who, with their professional and interdisciplinary competencies to play a responsible role in social, economic and ecological development. (Strategy and development paper of Coburg University of Applied Sciences)

With regard to the compatibility of family and studies or work, Coburg University of Applied Sciences is not only focusing on family friendliness in relation to families with children – but also on the increasing proportion of those who have taken on responsibility for caring for relatives.
By improving the framework conditions, students and university members who take on family responsibilities are to be supported equally.
The university’s family office has access to a wide network that connects the university with all the important educational and social institutions in the region.
Monika Faaß advises students, staff and lecturers in the Family Office.