{"id":15733,"date":"2023-10-20T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\/gleichstellung-und-diversitaet\/equality-and-diversity-office\/diversity\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:42:01","slug":"diversity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gleichstellung-und-diversitaet.uni-mainz.de\/en\/equality-and-diversity-office\/diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n\n\n \n<\/jgu-base-anchornavigation>\n\n\n
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Our university is a place of diversity<\/strong>, where people with different backgrounds, opportunities, and life experiences learn, research, and work together. Recognizing this diversity and implementing real equal opportunities are guiding principles for the continuous development of our higher education institution as a learning organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is committed to minimizing structural barriers and the risk of discrimination or exclusion within its sphere of influence. At the same time, we work to design teaching, learning, research, and working environments in such a way that all university members can participate equally in processes and structures and develop their individual potential to the best of their ability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our aim is to continually develop the institutional framework conditions <\/strong>in order to create a higher education institution that not only recognizes diversity, but actively promotes it and views it as an asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Diversity team will be happy to advise and support you in planning and implementing diversity-specific measures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between 2015 and 2017, JGU underwent the “Vielfalt gestalten” (“Shaping Diversity”) auditing process of the Stifterverband f\u00fcr die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Donor’s Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany) for the first time and was awarded a certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audit aims to encourage higher education institutions and non-university research institutions to proactively address the challenges associated with student and employee diversity and view it as an asset for the institution. During the two-year process, it offers support in the development and implementation of a diversity strategy tailored to the institutional profile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By linking organizational development, collegial advising, and external support, structural framework conditions, instruments, and measures designed to break down structural barriers and enable the participation of all members are conceptualized. Moderated reflection processes and institution-wide dialogs with leading members, students, and employees aim to promote diversity-oriented university culture in the long term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, JGU successfully completed the re-auditing process and received a certificate for a further three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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