Diversity unit
Diversity as the key to progress
Coburg University of Applied Sciences actively lives 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 debate on 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. origin, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or world view. 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.
Strategic fields of action
- Promoting participation and equal opportunities
- Communication and networking
- Develop a mindset
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 had already successfully completed the diversity audit process "Shaping Diversity" of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in 2018, the diversity re-audit process took place successfully in 2022 and Coburg University of Applied Sciences holds 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.
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.
We train more than specialists. We train people. We develop personalities who, with their professional and interdisciplinary competencies to participate responsibly in social, economic and ecological development.
(Strategy and development paper of the Coburg University of Applied Sciences)
