Equal opportunities in education

BFH promotes the actual equality of women and men. It is committed to diversity and actively promotes equal opportunities for all employees and students. It is committed to dealing with similarities and differences in an appreciative and reflective manner and to reducing discrimination.

Equal opportunities in higher education have an impact on diversity and the number of trained professionals and ensure more diversity in the labour market and in the disciplines. Measures to reconcile work and care responsibilities for women and men, as well as specific support for women, improve opportunities for women in working life and contribute to increasing the number of female managers. Diversity-sensitive teaching and a corresponding university culture enable students to deal with diversity and shape their inner attitude.

In the course of implementing the Diversity Policy, gender- and diversity-appropriate teaching is increasingly becoming an issue. Gender and diversity competence is an essential component of good quality teaching. For this reason, BFH promotes 30 lecturers in gender- and diversity-responsive teaching each year with a full-day offer in the certificate course/CAS University Didactics & E-Learning.

In the year under review, BFH-G carried out the project ‘Equal opportunities in the curricula’. The aim is to take gender and diversity issues into account and anchor them in the curricula.

In a project on learning culture, BFH-HAFL designed a winter school for international students in the Master's programme in Life Sciences.

From 2021 to 2023 BFH-S is running the project ‘Empowerment and unlearning racism’ with workshops for students of colour and teachers to reflect on their own experiences with racial exclusion dynamics or structural and institutional racism in the university context.