The University is committed to promoting equal opportunities and equality for women and men and all genders, endeavours to remove barriers to access and promotes the compatibility of work and caring responsibilities. For the University, the diversity of perspectives of university members is an essential element for excellence in research, teaching and administration. The promotion of equal opportunities as a cross-cutting issue is a management task at all levels.
In particular, the focus is on the diversity categories of gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, chronic illness and mental health, ethnic origin (language, nationality, skin colour, migration experience, religion), social origin and status as well as age.
The Faculty of Law now has a mentoring programme: This offers a diverse, individually tailored programme that supports young academics (mentees) in successfully pursuing their careers. The aim of the programme is to support early career researchers at the RW Faculty and to give mentees the opportunity to actively plan their career, expand their professional network, gain expertise and motivation to expand their skills with regard to an academic career and to successfully pursue their career. In one-to-one mentoring, an experienced person from academia or practice (mentor) supports a younger junior researcher (mentee) outside of the usual supervisor-subordinate dependencies. Peer mentoring serves the networking and mutual support of mentees within and beyond their own educational levels and specialist areas. In regular meetings, career topics chosen by the mentees themselves are discussed as part of an intervision programme.
For further information: fiona.leu@unibe.ch
