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Central Equal Opportunities Officer

The Central Equal Opportunities Officer actively promotes diversity of perspectives and equal opportunities. Together with her team, she advises and supports employees and female students at HHU on issues such as career advancement and discrimination.

NEWS and EVENTS

In honour of International Women’s Day:
Musical reading on 21 March 2025

In honour of International Women’s Day 2025, the Equal Opportunities Office at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf cordially invites you to the musical reading: „And as I reached the border line, I felt a mightier throb within my chest…". Heinrich Heine: From Devotion to Detainment Order, between Cupid and Censor” at the Haus der Universität (“University House”). Due to the limited number of seats available, please register online by 12 March 2025.

You can register online here

200 years ago, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the Düsseldorf-born poet Heinrich Heine. Shortly beforehand, he had shaped his impressions of his last journey from exile in France to Germany into an epic poem, published under the title of “Germany. A Winter’s Tale”. Heine loved defiantly and criticised to the point of being banned, he was unconditionally devoted to women who gave him the cold shoulder and directed merciless social criticism at sovereigns who ruled with an iron grip. The writer, who had already experienced marginalisation at an early age, disregarded social norms when it came to matters of the heart. In his youth, for example, he fell in love with the daughter of an executioner, whose family was ostracised. Later in life, he loved both society ladies and women deemed to come from less exalted circles. Heine was attracted to strong women and stood up for women – relentlessly, fearing neither the taunting of his fellow men and other contemporaries, nor duels with pistols. The musical reading follows the trail left by his bleeding heart, from his youth to infirmity, and his journey through life as a romantic rebel. 

Concept, text & reading: Dr Andreas Turnsek
Vocals: Stephanie Marie Turnsek
Composition, accordion & vocals: Gudrun Salger M.A.
Violin: Jessica Goetz
Percussion: Reverend Olaf Schaper

free places in company daycare centre and large daycare facility

From August 2025, there will once again be places available at the AWO company daycare centre in Erna-Eckstein-Straße. Registrations are possible for children under and over three years of age of HHU employees. In the "Storchennest" daycare centre run by Methix in Holthausen, places for children between the ages of one and three will also be available again from 1 August 2025.

We will be accepting registrations for both facilities until 31 January 2025 at the latest.

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Help with attacks and conflicts
in scientific communication

Scicomm Support is the national point of contact in the event of attacks and unobjective and unobjective conflicts in science communication and is a joint institution of the “Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation” and ‘Wissenschaft im Dialog’. In addition to guidelines, it also offers confidential telephone advice as well as training and workshops on how to deal with (digital) violence, hate speech and targeted attacks against scientists or science communicators.

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© HHU / Susanne Kurz

coaching and workshops

Here you can register for coaching, workshops, online courses, seminars, trainings and events offered at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on topics relevant to gender equality.

Gender-appropriate language

A Handout by the Central Equal Opportunity Officer and the Diversity Section of the Heine Center for Sustainable Development at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Mein HEINE-Mensch

Every two years, the Central Equal Opportunities Officer honours teaching staff, researchers, students and university employees at HHU who are committed to equality and equal opportunities at HHU in a variety of ways.

Weltfrauentag

To mark International Women's Day on 8 March, the Central Gender Equality Officer at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is organising events such as musical readings and lectures.

Forum Gender in der Medizin

The contributions to the Gender in Medicine Forum are interdisciplinary and are located at the interface between biological sex and gender roles. Here you can find more information.