Vice-Rectorate Quality and Sustainable Development
The Vice-Rectorate Quality supports members of the University in
- promoting equal opportunities,
- implementing sustainable development measures,
- quality assurance and development.
News
21.03.2024
Engaged UniBE
Ende März fand das erste Treffen der Arbeitsgruppe «Engaged University» statt. Vertreter*innen der Fakultäten, der Zentren, der Stände und des Zentralbereichs entwickeln gemeinsam mit dem Vizerektorat Qualität und Nachhaltige Entwicklung (VRQ) das Konzept einer Engaged UniBE, das den Schwerpunkt auf die Weiterentwicklung der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung an der Universität Bern legt.
15.02.2024
Neue Leiterin Abt. QSE
Die Abteilung Qualitätssicherung und -entwicklung im Vizerektorat Qualität und Nachhaltige Entwicklung heisst Rana Öztürk, MBA als Abteilungsleiterin herzlich willkommen. Dr. Claudia Saalfrank übernimmt die Stabsfunktion im Vizerektorat Qualität und Nachhaltige Entwicklung und wird sich in Zukunft mit strategischen Projekten in den Themenbereichen Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Chancengleichheit und Qualitätssicherung und -entwicklung befassen.
01.01.2024
RENAMING VRQ
The former Vice-Rectorate Quality has been renamed to Vice-Rectorate Quality and Sustainable Development! With this change, we underscore the importance of the University of Bern`s commitment to sustainable development. We understand sustainable development in a broad sense to include ecological, social and economic goals. Higher education institutions like the Universität Bern play an important role in advancing the transformation of society through our engagement in knowledge creation, teaching and outreach. We strive for gender equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively reduce our carbon footprint. We implement a quality assessment and development culture to ensure excellence.
Services
Equal Opportunities
The Office for Equal Opportunities advises and supports those specifically responsible as well as all members of the university. It also offers a range of services for employees and students.
Sustainable Development
The Coordination Office for Sustainable Development supports the integration of the cross-cutting issue of sustainability into all areas of the university (teaching, research, continuing education, public relations and operations) by encouraging, supporting and linking sustainability activities in these areas.
Quality assurance and development
The Office for Quality Assurance and Development (QAD Office) supports members of the university with quality assurance and development (QAD), promotes the quality culture and assists in the development and implementation of QAD measures. The Teaching Evaluation Office supports lecturers and faculties in conducting course evaluations. It offers assistance in designing surveys and helps to implement them. It is responsible for providing evaluations of the surveys to lecturers in a timely manner and for making reports to the faculties and the Executive Board of the University of Bern.
University preparation for refugee students
The Coordination Office for University Preparation for Refugee Students advises and supports refugees interested in admission to a degree program at the University of Bern. With the project Compass UniBE, it offers a university preparation year.
Organizational Chart/Functions
Management
- Name / Titel
- Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer
- Funktion
- Vice-Rector for Quality and Sustainable Development
- heike.mayer@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 88 86
Secretariat
- Name / Titel
- Saranka Thangeswaran
- Funktion
- Head of Secretariat, administrator HR and finances
- saranka.thangeswaran@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 39 32
Office for Quality Assurance and Development
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Jürg Friedli
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff QAD
- juerg.friedli@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 82 34
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Carsten Knigge
- Funktion
- Deputy Head (evaluation of study programs and strategic centers)
- carsten.knigge@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 39 24
- Name / Titel
- Magdalena Dampz
- Funktion
- Head of the LVE department (assessment of courses and evaluations)
- magdalena.dampz@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 34 89
- Name / Titel
- My-Yen Ngo
- Funktion
- Staff member (assessment of courses and evaluations)
- my-yen.ngo@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 34 13
- Name / Titel
- Nik Hunziker
- Funktion
- Staff member (assessment of courses and evaluations)
- nik.hunziker@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 36 78
Office for Gender Equality
- Name / Titel
- Claudia Willen
- Funktion
- Head (Work-life-balance consulting, postdoc coaching)
- claudia.willen@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 31 19
- Name / Titel
- Karin Beyeler
- Funktion
- deputy head (faculty equal opportunities plans, recruitment, promotion of junior researchers)
- karin.beyeler@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 32 07
- Name / Titel
- Ursina Anderegg
- Funktion
- deputy head
- ursina.anderegg@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 51 50
- Name / Titel
- Seraina Wepfer
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff (counselling on compensation for disadvantages, people with disabilities and mental health)
- seraina.wepfer@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 32 45
- Name / Titel
- Gaia Fortunato
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff (access to studies, social selectivity, sexual harassment, public relations)
- gaia.fortunato@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 30 98
- Name / Titel
- Joel Schaad
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff (Better Science, dual career, course programme)
- joel.schaad@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 30 99
Office for Sustainable Development
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Helen Plüss
- Funktion
- Head of the Office for Sustainable Development
- helen.pluess@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 34 88
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Martin Zabe-Kühn
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff (Sustainability Day, air travel, CO2 statistics)
- martin.zabe-kuehn@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 56 05
- Name / Titel
- Corinna Arent
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff (reduction path, offsetting, greenhouse gas report)
- corinna.arent@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 34 41
- Name / Titel
- Nicole Wagenblast
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff (sustainability report, sustainability measures, abatement measures)
- nicole.wagenblast@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 36 15
Coordination Office University Preparation for Refugee Students
- Name / Titel
- Ann-Seline Fankhauser
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff, project leader
- ann-seline.fankhauser@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 56 16
- Name / Titel
- Solvej Sörensen
- Funktion
- Member of scientific staff
- solvej.soerensen2@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 56 04