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Advice for Staff with Family Responsibilities

The Family Service at the Equal Opportunities Office is the central facility of Goethe University Frankfurt for the cross-cutting topic of reconciling studies, academic career and family responsibilities. In the framework of consultations, it provides an overview of the advisory services and referrals available, gives initial guidance and helps you to find the right contact persons for your concerns.

It is also responsible for handling your registration for our childcare facilities.

Sara Schnier
Family-Service Officer

Specialisations:

  • Reconciliation of family, studies and career
  • Help with finding childcare at the university and in Frankfurt
  • Advice specifically for research associates (Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act (WissZeitVG))
  • Problems related to pregnancy, maternity protection and parental leave
  • Holiday childcare
  • Referrals to municipal counselling centres and socio-educational support services
  • Help with finding childcare for internal events
Benjamin Kirst

Family-Service Officer

Specialisations:

  • Advice specifically for (expectant) fathers
  • Advice for foreign nationals with families
  • Childcare at 51ÁÔÆæ Frankfurt
  • Reconciliation of family responsibilities and studies
  • Conflicts in relation to pregnancy, maternity protection and parental leave

Dr. Jana Bäuerlen

Tel.: +49 69 798-18113
E-Mail: Baeuerlen@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Specialisations:  Support of partners of new employees pursuing their own career perspectives in Rhine-Main area

Eligible persons: 
  • Newly appointed professors 
  • Postdocs (international or with family responsibility) 
  • Research assistants of participating coordinated research programmes

For legally binding information on the topics listed below, please contact the administrator responsible at the  (in German only).

Specialisations:

  • Maternity protection
  • Parental leave
  • Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act (WissZeitVG)
  • Employment contracts
  • Remote working
  • Child benefit

Contact: 

Tel +49 69 798-13629
personalabteilung@uni-frankfurt.de

The is the central non-academic advice centre and service facility for:

  • International professors
  • International postdoctoral researchers
  • International doctoral candidates enrolled at the university
  • International doctoral candidates with a university employment contract

GWC provides comprehensive support from a single source for you and your family. You can find a full list of the servicesoffered on the centre's website.  

Please make sure to fill in the form, which you will find on the website, to receive support in the best possible way.

Detailed information for your stay in Frankfurt can be found in the .

Contact: 

welcome@uni-frankfurt.de