Equal Opportunities

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These offices offer advice and support to all employees and students who are directly or indirectly affected by sexual harassment:

Contact points at the Faculty of Medicine

Faculty Equal Opportunities Commission

Prof. Britta Engelhardt, chair of the Faculty Equal Opportunities Commission
PD Dr. Lukas Brügger, member of the Faculty Equal Opportunities Commission
Svea Lehmann, equal opportunities coordinator
Lena Woodtli, students representative

Advice for students

The following two contact points are available to students at our Faculty:

Reporting Office of the Student Affairs Office

Students can use the email address below to report any form of inappropriate behavior or verbal comments that occur in everyday student life or educational institutions and are perceived as stressful, problematic, or inappropriate. This includes discrimination based on gender, origin, language, religion, identity, etc., as well as sexual harassment, bullying, or stalking by fellow students, lecturers, or persons in the teaching hospitals.

The reports received will be treated confidentially. The next steps will be discussed individually with the person making the report.

meldestelle-studium.meddek@unibe.ch

Who can submit a report?

• Students who have been affected themselves or have witnessed incidents

• Lecturers and training supervisors who have noticed problematic behavior or inappropriate verbal comments from students

CLASH Reporting Office

CLASH Bern is a group of medical students from all years who are committed to combating sexual violence and sexism in everyday student and internship life. With the help of BIHAM, an anonymous reporting platform has been set up.

Additionally, CLASH Bern can be contacted via info@clashbern.ch or instagram (@clash_bern).

Advice from the university

In cases of sexual harassment: University of Bern

In the event of discrimination: University Discrimination - University of Bern 

You are also welcome to send us a confidential email: beratung.afc@unibe.ch.

Advice for employees of the Insel Group

Human resources consulting

Equality & Diversity Office

University of Bern Advisory service Guide

The University of Bern offers a wide range of advisory services to its members. The new advice guide provides information about the services, advice centers, and contact points available at the university, as well as how to proceed. This website is organized by stakeholder group so that you can quickly find the right contact person for your needs.

Short link: UniBe Advisory service guide

Language

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern aims to promote gender equality in a comprehensive sense and considers linguistic equality to be a matter of course. The University of Bern provides important guidelines for implementing this policy, which can be accessed via the following link: Language guidelines in German and French

Support options at the University of Bern and Inselspital

This collection contains important information on balancing family and career and on funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

Ongoing measures:

Mentoring4Women

Since 2012, the program has been supporting women who want to actively plan and advance their academic careers in a targeted manner. As part of a two-year one-to-one relationship, mentees have the opportunity to benefit personally from the professional experience of established mentors at the Faculty of Medicine. With this support, mentees can draw up an individual career plan, expand their network with valuable contacts from their mentor, and develop clear goals for their individual career path. Possible goals may include obtaining their own research funding or balancing their career with personal commitments. M4W works closely with the University of Bern's Equal Opportunities Office and established mentoring programs in other faculties at the University of Bern. This gives mentees access to a comprehensive network.

Have you already completed your habilitation and would like to use your wealth of experience to support young, motivated female doctors or scientists? If so, please contact our coordinator.

Further information regarding requirements and registration can be found in the flyer.

Weitere Informationen bezüglich Anforderungen und Anmeldung finden Sie im Flyer.

FELS Network

Female Empowerment in Life Sciences (FELS) is an interdisciplinary association of female scientists with a background in medicine or life sciences, which was established in September 2021 with the support of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Faculty of Medicine and the Directorate of Teaching and Research.

For more information, please visit the following website:

Female Empowerment in Life Sciences (FELS) Network - Faculty of Medicine

Seat on appointment committees

A member of the internal faculty committee for equal opportunities (IFKC) sits on all appointment committees for professorships in accordance with Art. 25, para. 3 of the appointment regulations. The principles of equal opportunities in appointment procedures are set out in the guidelines issued by the Equal Opportunities Office.

Equal Opportunities, Diversity, and Inclusion Department – Insel Gruppe:

University of Bern Action Plan for Gender Equality

The University of Bern has had an action plan for gender equality since 2013. Between now and 2016, it will implement 50 measures in seven areas of action.

Equality page of the University Clinic for Cardiology

Equality page of the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR)

Clinical research careers in Switzerland

https://cr-careers.ch/ (in English)

Medical Women Switzerland

Medical Women Switzerland is the only association that represents the interests of female medical students, doctors in further training, and female doctors of all specialties, positions, and regions - competently and with a specifically female perspective.

https://medicalwomen.ch/ (in German or French)