Projects & Initiatives
At the mdw there are numerous projects and initiatives dealing with diversity-oriented and discrimination-sensitive issues. The offers are aimed at different target groups and are summarized here in an overview.
Diversity Competence
- Continuing education measures (Human Resources Development – Center for Further Education)
- queer-reading (queer_mdw)
- Transculturality_mdw
- Gender Studies and diversity-aware course offerings
- Information about barrier_free_mdw (Senate-AG Barrier-free)
- Library Gender and beyond (Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies)
Parenthood / Childcare
- Kindergruppe Sprachmelodie
- Regulation of individual working time models in consultation with Personnel Administration
Acquisition of language and writing skills for students (German)
Gender equality
- "Geschlechterdimensionen" (until 2016: "Frauenquoten") – Statistics on gender distribution at the mdw (Working Group for Equal Treatment Issues)
- Guideline "Fair in Wort und Bild" (Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Dirversity)
- Reach higher, reach beyond. Mentoring programme for pre- and postdocs at the mdw (women, inter* and non-binary persons)
- Reach higher, reach beyond. Mentoring programme for artists at the mdw (women, inter* and non-binary persons)
- Library Gender and beyond (Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies)
- Gender-Queer-Diversity-Call (Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Dirversity)
Health support
- „Interventionskette“ für suchtgefährdete und -kranke mdw-Mitarbeiter_innen (Human Resources Development – Center for Further Education)
- fit2work - mein Arbeitsplatz@mdw (Administrative Department for Human Resources)
- Verein ChronischKrank® Österreich (in coopration with mdw)
- Psychosocial Support for Students
Challenges on the Job
- Individual Coaching (Human Resources Development – Center for Further Education)
Sexual Orientation
- queer_mdw a platform that shows and supports the diversity of sexual orientations, gender identities and lifestyles
- queer@hochschulen
Scholarships & foundations for students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds
- Overview of scholarships, grants and foundations at the mdw
- hmdw-Department for Social Policy and Inclusion
Students with disAbilities
- hmdw-Department for Social Policy and Inclusion
- Information about barrier_free_mdw (Senate-AG Barrier-free)
German as a language of science - support for students
- Writing Center (University library)
- Events of the Center "Akademische Integrität" (Organisationsrecht und Berufungsmanagement)