Hol­i­day pro­grams dur­ing school hol­i­days

Since 1999, Paderborn University has held holiday programs on campus for children of staff and students during the school holidays.
These programs are designed to satisfy the criterion set out by the “Family-friendly University” initiative aimed at helping staff and students with children juggle work/studies and childcare. The camps also help get children of university parents interested in, or help consolidate their existing interest in STEM subjects.

The activities on offer vary and cover a broad spectrum of chemistry, physics, electrical engineering and art-based activities. Parents can register their “little researchers” for the sessions that best match their specific interests. The camps thereby offer children the chance to experience the university not just as the place where their parents go to work or study, but also as a family-friendly institution with much to discover, explore and learn.
Since 2011, the university’s holiday camp programs have also included external activities, with participating children now also able to enjoy experiential education and forest school activities. In summer 2015, the “coolMINT” schools STEM lab, based at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), became the latest addition to Paderborn University’s holiday camp fun.

The holiday programs are held in the second week of the Easter and autumn holidays and in the first and second week of the summer holidays. The camps’ activities are aimed at children aged between 6 and 12.

Im­port­ant note

Please note that the programme is aimed exclusively at employees and students of Paderborn University. The detailed pages of the children's holiday camps are therefore only accessible from the university network.

Chil­dren's hol­i­day camps in 2025

A holiday camp will take place during the 2025 Easter holidays from 22 to 25 April. You can find more information about registration and the activities on offer during the Easter holidays here.

A holiday camp will take place in the first two weeks of the 2025 summer holidays. You will find further information on registration and the summer holiday offers here in due course.

A holiday camp will take place in the second week of the 2025 autumn holidays. You will find further information on registration and the offers during the autumn holidays here in due course.

Chil­dren's hol­i­day camps in 2024

A holiday camp will take place during the 2024 easter holidays from 2nd to 5th april. Further information on registration and the offers during the easter holidays can be found here.

A holiday camp will take place during the 2024 summer holidays from 8th to 12th and 15th to 19th july 2024.

In den Herbstferien fand vom 21. bis 25. Oktober 2024 eine Ferienfreizeit statt.

Detaillierte Informationen zum Herbstferienprogramm finden 360直播吧 hier.

Chil­dren's hol­i­day camps in 2023

A children's holiday camp took place during the 2023 Easter holidays from 11.04. - 14.04.2023.

In the 2023 summer holidays, a children's holiday camp took place from 26.06. - 30.06., from 03.07. - 07.07. and from 10.07. - 14.07.2023.

In the autumn holidays 2023, a children's holiday camp took place from 09.10. - 13.10.2023.

Dr. Annika Hegemann

Equality

Room E2.103
Paderborn University
Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn

Stefanie Lichtenauer

Equality

Room E2.106
Paderborn University
Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn