Diversity Day
How can we promote diversity? We want to live by our commitment to diversity – and we need you, your experiences, and your perspectives! Whatever else we need for this, we would like to find out together with you. All members of HWR Berlin are invited: students, lecturers, and employees.
Tue
23.05.
15.00–17.00
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Campus Schöneberg
Building B Aula
Badensche Straße 50-51
10825 Berlin
Free of charge
No registration required
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How can we promote diversity? We want to live by our commitment to diversity – and we need you, your experiences, and your perspectives! Whatever else we need for this, we would like to find out together with you.
On Diversity Day, we would like to introduce you to the new Diversity Charter of the HWR Berlin, discuss diversity issues, and focus in particular on first generation students and multilingual students:
What special talents and perspectives do multilingual students and people who are the first in their family to study bring to the university? What opportunities and conditions should they find in order to make the best possible use of their knowledge and skills? What needs and measures arise from this? Is origin – social or cultural – experienced as relevant in the context of the university and on the way through studying?
Be curious and join the discussion – no matter where you are from or if you study, teach, or work at HWR Berlin.
Please note, that parts of the event will be held in German only (but your contribution can be made in English).
Program
3 p.m. | Opening (in German)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Meyer, Deputy President of the HWR Berlin
3.10 p.m. | Inputs
- Charter on Diversity and Antidiscrimination (in German)
Sonja Janositz – Diversity coordinator, HWR Berlin - First generation students (in German)
Elisabeth Wolf – Coordinator "Project to promote diversity within the student body", HWR Berlin - Multilingual students (in German)
Emmi Brunel – Coordinator German courses for refugees, HWR Berlin
3.40 p.m. | Moderated discussions
- First generation students (in German)
Hannah Rindler, ArbeiterKind.de - Multilingualism (in German)
Nathalie Nicol, studierendenWERK BERLIN - Open Table on diversity (in English)
John C. Davis, HWR Berlin
4.40 p.m. | Summary and closing
HWR Berlin promotes the diversity of its members and perceives their potential as enrichment. It sees itself as an open, inclusive and diverse university. Therefore, it participates in the activities around the "German Diversity Day" of the association Charta der Vielfalt.