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Studying with children - information
Studying with children? Student Services Freiburg assists students with children in various ways from day-care to free meals for children in the Mensa.
Anyone who has personal or study-related problems can turn to us. Our counseling centers offer professional support free of charge. Our social counseling helps with questions about social benefits, financial relief options, childcare and insurance, and puts you in touch with other counseling centers and offices. Contact via the sidebar in the box to the right.
Our Student Financial Counseling Service advises on loans and scholarships and provides emergency funds for acute emergencies.
Contact via stufi@swfr.de
Our Psychotherapeutic Counseling Service helps you with personal or study-related problems and supports you in overcoming challenging situations. The PBS also offers workshops for successful studying.
Contact via pbs@swfr.de
Our Legal Counseling Service helps with a free initial consultation.
Contact via rechtsberatung@swfr.de
There are some special regulations for pregnant women and students with children, for example a childcare allowance for students who live in the same household with their children under the age of 10 or relief in the repayment of the loan portion.
Our BAföG department will be happy to help with any questions.
Contact via bafoeg@swfr.de
In addition to our SWFR daycare centers Kleine Knöpfe and Kita Pusteblume, we have other cooperations. In addition, we offer the babysitter exchange, which is a free offer. Through our exchange, parents can find suitable babysitters at short notice, quickly, easily and according to individual needs. You can find the exchange in our job agency in the service portal. The Studierendenwerk is only a mediator. In the case of babysitting, a contract must be concluded between the parents and the babysitter. The amount of remuneration is the sole responsibility of the contracting parties. The Studierendenwerk does not make any stipulations regarding rates of remuneration or minimum remuneration and is also not entitled to demand specific rates of remuneration or minimum remuneration from students for accepted assignments. Please check residence and work permits for foreign babysitters. Please read the terms of use on the babysitter exchange carefully. Of course, you can always contact us by phone or in person if you have any questions.
Click here to go to the service portal.
We offer students with a child or several children the opportunity to get to know other students in the same life situation away from daycare or kindergarten:
- with our Family Tours during small, family-friendly excursions
- Further offers for student parents can be found in the box on the right under Activities.
Under-10-year-old children of students receive a free child's plate with their parent's or guardian's meal.
To heat up bottles and jars, you will find a microwave in every cafeteria.
In some of our dormitories there are apartments for families. Student parents with a child fall under the groups of people with special needs. They are given priority in the allocation of rooms.
Contact via wohnen@swfr.de
Our project "Living for Help" offers you the possibility to live cheap and socially engaged.
Contact via wfh@swfr.de
All universities from our support area are committed to a family-friendly infrastructure. The social departments of AStA/Verfasster Studierendenschaft can also help. Contact via the social counseling (info box on the right)
If you are expecting a child or have already become a mother or father, you are entitled to financial assistance from the state: for example, child benefit, child supplement, childcare allowance, advance child support, parental allowance, housing allowance, and much more. Our social counseling service will be happy to provide you with detailed and individually tailored information. Contact in the info box on the right.
Networking meeting of student parents
Networking meetings for student parents take place from time to time.
Childcare at our other locations
Students with children in Offenburg have the opportunity to use childcare close to the university. This is based on an agreement between the university, the Studierendenwerk Freiburg and the city of Offenburg, which provides places for students in its municipal district and family centre in Uffhofen.
Upon application, the Studierendenwerk subsidises the monthly childcare fee for children under the age of three in the amount of the difference between the daycare fees of the Uffhofen district centre and the cost of a daycare place in the Studierendenwerk facilities in Freiburg. Only students receive this subsidy from the Studierendenwerk!
Applications are accepted by Mrs. Litterst at the SWFR offices in Offenburg (B017).
Renate Litterst
Telephone 0781 205-328
E-mail: office-offenburg(at)swfr.de
The Studierendenwerk cooperates with the Catholic Family Centre, the city of Furtwangen and Furtwangen University to make it easier for students with children to study. The day care centre offers childcare for children from eight weeks to primary school age.
Contact:
Furtwangen University
Ms. Katharina Lupfer
Tel. 07723 920-2055
E-mail: lupf(at)hs-furtwangen.de
The Studierendenwerk Freiburg-Schwarzwald cooperates with the city of Villingen-Schwenningen to make it easier for students with children to study.
Contact:
Ms. Birgit Tabor
Tel. 07720 - 99322 45
E-mail: tabor(at)swfr.de
Our Studikid set for student parents
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For all other questions and advice about studying with a child, contact us by mail sozialberatung@swfr.de or come by our office at Baslerstraße 2. As a gift, you will receive a Studikid set with a Mensa voucher worth 10 euros, a Kita cookbook and a surprise gift.