Compatibility
Family-friendly
Combining family commitments such as bringing up children or caring for relatives with studying or working can be challenging. Students, teaching staff and employees receive support at Ruhr University.
Studying with a child
Counseling
Students and (expectant) parents are faced with many questions: How do I manage? How do I organise myself? What funding options are there?
The psychological student counseling service is available to answer these and other questions and provide individual advice.
Exchange and networking
Even if it doesn't look like it at first glance: There are many parents studying at the Ruhr-Universität! And there are many who have other family commitments, such as caring for parents or grandparents. They are invited to exchange ideas in the Peer Quarter: in the Care Café, at the lunch meeting or in self-organised groups such as Campus Stars.
Further offers
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Kathrin
Humpert-Frey
Work and family
Child and job
A business trip - can I take my child with me? School vacations, but no vacation yet - what options are there? The services offered by the family-friendly university make life easier for parents working at the Ruhr-Universität, for example with breastfeeding and nappy-changing rooms, mobile nurseries and school holiday care.
Care and career
A care case and suddenly nothing works at home anymore? Together with its partner BUK, the Family-friendly University provides advice and can arrange care options.
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Sarah
Rittmann
UV 2/232
Useful information for parents
Family in the university charter
in 2015, RUB signed the "Family in Higher Education" charter. Since then, it has been working in a team with over a hundred universities and academic institutions in German-speaking countries to improve learning and working conditions for families.
Charter on reconciling work and care
In May 2024, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen signed the charter on "Reconciling work and care" of the state program of the same name.
