More than forty thousand people with many different identities and backgrounds work and study at Freie Universität Berlin. This diversity includes a wide range of gender identities, including trans, intersex and non-binary people, and cisgender women and men.

The Diversity Strategy and Action Plan approved by Freie Universität Berlin in February 2021 aims to strengthen the gender self-determination of trans, intersex, and non-binary university members.

With this in mind, the Executive Board of Freie Universität Berlin specified the decision of November 9, 2021 on December 13th, 2022 in order to make the administrative process for trans, intersex, and non-binary students who want to change their names much more straightforward. All you need to change your name is a supplemental identification card (ID) from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität.

If you do not have any form of german identification you may contact the DGTI directly at ea@dgti.org and request a supplemental identification card (ID).

Your chosen name will be used on all internal university documents, including your Campuscard as well as being displayed on all electronic systems and used in the university’s internal communication.

You can find information on the use of chosen names that differ from the official name on diplomas here!

You can change your name as follows:

Submit a "Change of Name" request via the Self-Services portal and enter your chosen name. Please upload your dgti supplemental identification card (ID) (front and back) together with your signed declaration of consent (in one pdf) under the “Attachments” tab.

You will be automatically sent a new QR code for your Campuscard via the ZEDAT portal as soon as the change has gone through. Please note that your old Campuscard will no longer be valid.

Then you can change your email address or set up another one via the ZEDAT portal. You can find further information on email addresses here. In justified individual cases, it is also possible to receive a new FU account with a different username. Please contact IT Support for this.

If you do not want to (fully) change your name (yet), then you also have the option of changing just the name that is displayed on our online platforms (please see below).

Further information for TIN* students and about gender identity can be found on the Diversity web portal.

For information on how to use your chosen name during enrollment, click here.