As an employer and place of teaching and education, Kiel University (CAU) is obliged by the General Act on Equal Treatment (AGG) to ensure a working and learning environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. Members of the CAU have the option to submit an AGG complaint to the Legal Affairs department. The CAU actively engages in ensuring that it is a safe and non-violent place to work and study, and promotes a culture of seeing and naming discriminating or violent behaviour. Discrimination, sexual violence and harassment or bullying are not tolerated at the CAU. Kiel University has reinforced this attitude and position with its guidelines on dealing with discrimination, sexual violence and harassment (pdf).

At the CAU, sexual violence is understood as all behaviours and actions that are discriminating, offensive or humiliating in a sexual or sexist respect and that result in the violation of the affected individual’s dignity. Sexual violence may occur in physical, verbal, non-verbal as well as digital form or become manifest in violent attacks or assaults.

Discrimination exists if individuals or groups of individuals experience less favourable treatment than another individual in a comparable situation experiences, has experienced or would experience, in particular for reasons of gender, religion or world view, a disability or chronic illness, social or regional origin, age, sexual identity or race.

As an employer and place of teaching and education, Kiel University (CAU) is obliged by the General Act on Equal Treatment (AGG) to ensure a working and learning environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. Members of the CAU have the option to submit an AGG complaint. The CAU actively engages in ensuring that it is a safe and non-violent place to work and study, and promotes a culture of seeing and naming discriminating or violent behaviour. Discrimination, sexual violence and harassment or bullying are not tolerated at the CAU. Kiel University has reinforced this attitude and position with its guidelines on dealing with discrimination, sexual violence and harassment.

Structural racism is a power balance in which group identities are construed that value certain groups higher or lower than others. There are no biological or scientific bases for separating people into different “races”. Racism can have all kinds of different forms and particularly occurs as antisemitism, racism against Black people and People of Color, antiziganism and anti-Muslim racism. In its understanding of the term racism, Kiel University relies on the current international research on racism as well as on the human rights regulations within the International Convention on the Elimination on All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Discrimination exists if individuals or groups of individuals experience less favourable treatment than another individual in a comparable situation experiences, has experienced or would experience, in particular for racist reasons, reasons of gender, religion or world view, a disability or chronic illness, social or regional origin, age or sexual identity.