Freie Universität Berlin is committed to promoting gender equity and equal opportunities at all levels, and to fighting discrimination wherever this occurs.
This commitment means acknowledging and appreciating the many differences and commonalities between groups of people at our university, as well as dismantling the barriers that prevent university members from receiving equal treatment and getting the most out of life at Freie Universität Berlin, whether they study, research, or work here. In line with our founding principles, core values, and sense of community, Freie Universität Berlin is dedicated to honoring and promoting diversity. At the same time, it strives to identify exclusionary mechanisms, critically reflect on them, and ultimately dismantle them.
This critical approach to questions of equity and equality involves thinking about how gender intersects with other discriminatory categories. This perspective also requires us to consider gender as a multifaceted concept that surpasses the binary model and to resist modes of essentializing gender and gender roles.
Further, Freie Universität Berlin is committed to enabling its students and staff to balance university life with family responsibilities. We have put a range of measures in place to support our members in balancing study, work, and family life and are a certified “family friendly” university.