Dear students and employees,
The examination phase is still in full swing, the last annual plans and reports need to be finalized, daycare centers are running in emergency mode and, unfortunately, the flu epidemic continues. For students and staff, parents and carers, balancing family, work and studies is becoming a balancing act.
With this newsletter, we would like to inform you briefly about news, projects and current measures at Paderborn University with regard to a family-friendly university.
Topics in the current newsletter:
- Caring students: When your own study and life planning meets care responsibilities
- Parent packages: now with new content
- PUKi: News from Paderborn Uni Kids & a look behind the door of room E2.301
- Childcare during the vacations: For school and kindergarten children
- Free places at the campus daycare centers: from August 2025
- FidH e.V. statement on family and equality policy at universities
- Changes to state family benefits in 2025
- Increase in care services
- Event information: for parents, children/young people and family caregivers
You are welcome to forward the newsletter to colleagues and fellow students. Interested parties can sign up to the mailing list here.
We wish everyone a relaxing lecture-free period and all the best for upcoming exams.
Best wishes from the Family Service Office
Barbara Pickhardt & Noelle Maicher-Hoff