Women's Representative

The Commissioner for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and the Arts and the Women's Representatives of the faculties provide information on funding opportunities for female students and career prospects for women.
They organise events to teach and practise specific key qualifications (e.g. application training, coaching, learning to learn properly) for female students.
They provide counselling in cases of discrimination and violence against women.
They support and promote women-specific topics in teaching and practice.
They work towards increasing the proportion of women in professorships.

The university's Equal Opportunities Officer for Women in Science and the Arts and the women's representatives of the faculties advise and support the university management in complying with the constitutionally required equal opportunities and in avoiding or eliminating disadvantages for female students, professors and female teaching staff.

If you have any questions or problems, please do not hesitate to contact the university's Equal Opportunities Officer for Women in Science and the Arts or your faculty's Women's Representative!

These centres will help you in cases of discrimination, harassment of any kind, abuse of power, boundary violations, violence, etc.

Internal university contact points

• Reporting a case of discrimination and/or (sexualised) violence (digital form)
• Psychological counselling at Landshut University of Applied Sciences
• Women's representatives of the university and the faculties
• Diversity officer of the university

External, anonymous contact points

• Psychological counselling Studierendenwerk Niederbayern
• L.I.S. Landshut Intervention Centre for Domestic and Sexualised Violence
• Bavarian contact point for victims of abuse and sexualised violence
• Weißer Ring - Landshut branch office management: 0151/55164835
• Krisendienst Bayern: Tel. 0800/6553000 (daily from 0-24 hrs)

The centres are subject to a duty of confidentiality and guarantee the self-determination of those affected.

• Guidelines against discrimination, disadvantage, sexual harassment, sexualised violence and stalking as well as measures in the event of violations at Landshut University of Applied Sciences
• Behaviour traffic light of the working group "Protection concept for everyday university life"
• Your rights and your protection - information for students at Landshut University of Applied Sciences from the protection concept of the Faculty of Social Work
• Corona: Equality and university in the pandemic - current information from bukof (Federal Conference of Women's and Equal Opportunities Officers at Universities) on equality, science and university during the corona pandemic
• Come, do STEM - current events for schoolgirls, female students, graduates and companies
• Standpoints for a gender-equitable higher education policy - bukof position paper (March 2021)
• Equality - More fairness in performance-related pay - Article by "Forschung & Lehre" on the gender pay gap in science