anti-discrimination | conflicts Further Training and Sensitisation
Are you interested in issues of anti-discrimination and want to expand your knowledge?
Our information cluster and definitions provide a variety of useful information. Any interested party, confidential guides for GUIDE or allys of vulnerable persons in the university context can gather information on clear definitions, processes and paths.
Individual training courses are available in our online tutorials as self-study tools. Current UNIFY events are also prepared in various ways and multiply the understanding of interrelationships.
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Strong women have many faces
Women are familiar with a wide variety of assaults - from ignorance and pick-up lines to rape.
The aim of the training “Frauen haben starke Gesichter” is to recognize these assaults in the respective situations at an early stage and to protect oneself accordingly. The Women's helpline “Frauenennotruf gegen sexuelle Gewalt an Frauen und Mädchen e.V.” Heidelberg offers self-assertion courses regularly. A seminar on self-esteem, self-assertion and self-care (German language).
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
The Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) program - located at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim - offers first aid courses for those interested in providing psychological first aid when it is needed. UNIVITAL at Heidelberg University offers MHFA teaching units - in German and English, for staff and for students - that enable people to provide first aid for mental health in their professional and private environment.
Terminology of discrimination, sexual harassment and assault, bullying, stalking
In accordance with the university's internal Senate Guidelines on Fair Conduct, but also on the basis of other legal bases (criminal law, General Equal Treatment Act (AGG §1 and 3), State Higher Education Act (LHG §2 (2) and §4a): Harassment, bullying, stalking and discrimination in various ways on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics are inadmissible at Heidelberg University.
Regardless of ethnicity and social background, age, gender and sexual identity, religion and ideology, disability or chronic illness and if you have care commitments (family care and nursing), all people have equal rights at the university.
Misconduct and transgressions are counteracted and complaints are dealt with appropriately.
A uniform understanding of misconduct such as discrimination, stalking, bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape is necessary in order to create a consensus in the dialog. The Senate Guideline on Fair Conduct covers the relevant terms in its provisions. In its definitions, it includes the subjective perception of the persons concerned as to what is perceived as sexual harassment, bullying, stalking or discrimination. The collected lists are therefore not exhaustive.
Below you will find the legal definitions of discrimination, stalking, bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape (currently still in German language).
