Contacts for Doctoral Candidates
- Discrimination on the basis of "general" grounds of discrimination (see AGG, University Guidelines), exception: sexual discrimination)
- Issues related to safety at the workplace, protection of health and fire safety
- Family-friendly university
- Studying with a child
- Caring for relatives
- Gender equality between women and men
- Compatibility of family, care and career or studies
- Protection against sexual harassment pursuant to § 18(1-3) GlG M-V
- Advice and information for those interested in doing a doctorate, doctoral candidates, postdocs and their supervisors
- Advice for problems related to supervision and related issues of good scientific practice
- Qualification programme for doctoral students and postdocs, including individual coaching offers
- Support for developing and realising structured doctoral programmes in Research Training Groups and collaborative research projects
- Intercultural misunderstandings
- Problems with studies and examinations
- Difficulties within the subject area (between students and teaching staff)
- Students/academics who feel discriminated
- Students with psychological problems
- Conflicts between students
- Problems faced by German students regarding the recognition of their study achievements gained abroad or related to studying abroad
- Conflicts with external institutions: Immigration Office, student accommodation (halls of residence) etc.
- Internal Reporting Office of the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs
- Assessment of legal aspects
- Initiation of legal steps
- Questioning of witnesses
- Recording of case-related information
Conflict Management and Mediation Service
- General advice in cases that do not affect a specific field managed by one of the contact points
- Discussion of possible means of action and potential next steps in a conflict
- Mediation Service suggests a neutral, impartial person (mediator) for a conflict situation
- Guiding principles of confidentiality, voluntariness and openness to end result
- Objective: solution in the interest of all parties
- Challenges in the work environment
- Career development counselling
- Principles of good scientific practice
- Academic misconduct
- Job advertisement and recruitment procedures (apart from professorial appointments) and termination of employment contracts
- All matters related to existing employment contracts
- Work-related travel, excursions, moving costs and travel expenses as a result of work displacements
- Conclusion of teaching contracts, contracts for works and services, fee agreements, pay and salaries
- Proposes measures to support university and its employees
- Compliance with applicable laws and regulations
- Recipient of suggestions and complaints made by the employees.
- Personal problems of staff members
Representatives for Disabled Employees
- Interviews
- Applications for classification as equal to a severely disabled person
- Applications for compensation for reduced working capacity
- Individual problems, wishes, needs in everyday employment and equipping the workplace to correspond to individual disability