Who to contact in case of need
On this site you will find information about who to contact in different kind of challenging situation. If you aren’t sure who to contact, if you prefer to have a first contact with somebody you know better or you feel more comfortable with, you can always contact a coordinator of a graduate programme or graduate school.
Many of the websites appearing below will inform about additional contacts and furthermore provide information, that can be useful for people experiencing problems, conflicts, discrimination or threat, as well as people observing it.
Albertus Magnus Center
Help and support in case of problems and conflicts
Under the following link you can find the names and contacts of ombudspersons at the University of Cologne; contacts to report or consult, as well as a directive on discrimination, sexualised violence and bullying in case of discrimination and harassment; contacts for counselling or coaching in case of personal issues:
Employee and Manager Counselling
Counselling services of the KSTW
Contacts Kölner Studierendenwerk
Counselling Centres at the University in the Areas of Diversity and Equal Opportunities
Information & Contacts
Including the dimensions of
Accessibility & Inclusion
Psychological Counselling
Educational Justice
Discrimination
Diversity
Funding
Refugee Support
Equal Opportunities
Career Development
Compatibility of Career/Studies/Science
Criticism of racism
with external counselling centres for sexualised discrimination
Sexualized Discrimination
Information, Directives and Contacts
Information on sexualised discrimination by the Gender Equality Officer of the University of Cologne:
What to do in case of discrimination or sexual harassment?
What can students or employees do if they observe discrimination or sexual harassment?
What can students or employees do if they experience discrimination or sexual harassment?
https://gb.uni-koeln.de/sex_discrimination/index_eng.html
Directive on Discrimination, Sexualised Violence and Bullying
Counselling and contact points
Threat Management of the University of Cologne
Information & Contacts
Information from the website informing about the UoC’s threat management:
“The University of Cologne has established a threat management system that assesses threatening behaviour and can initiate measures to defuse situations or preventively contain them. All university employees are called upon to act if they witness threatening behaviour.”
“The team consists of staff from various areas of the central administration relevant to this task and is headed as needed by the Vice-Chancellor. The Infrastructural Facility Management, the International Office, the Legal Department and Human Resources Management are always involved.”
The websites inform about how the team works, how to behave in case of threats (both, when witnessing it directly or as an observer) and furthermore provides further links and information to university internal and external contacts.
https://verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/abteilung54/content/resourcen/threatmanagement/index_eng.html
https://verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/abteilung54/content/resourcen/threatmanagement/links/index_eng.html
First contacts
Scientific coordinator of the RTG-NCA
Katerina Vlantis
katerina.vlantis(at)uni-koeln(dot)de,
Scientific coordinator of the GSfBS
Isabell Witt
isabell.witt(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
If you wish a matter to be more anonymously communicated to a coordinator or you wish support for contacting a counselling centre or complaints office, you can contact
Madhuri Puvvada, Günes Birdal, Ricardo Custódio
or
the PhD student representatives of the GSfBS
https://gs-biosciences.uni-koeln.de/studyprogramme000/representatives