Services for families

In some residential complexes, the Studierendenwerk offers accommodation, particularly suitable for families. Students with children are given special attention when applying for these places in a timely manner.
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Many of our dining halls and cafeterias provide baby changing facilities, play areas, microwaves and high chairs for children, available for use by student parents and their children. Please refer to the pages of the individual facilities to find out what equipment is available in each case.

Enjoy the meal together with your child.

Children of at least one student parent receive a child ID card on application. Two possible accompanying persons are named in the child ID card.
Children up to and including six years of age with a valid child ID receive a free child portion in the refectories and cafeterias (except cafeteria Carl-Zeiss-Straße in Jena and cafeteria Audimax in Ilmenau), provided that the accompanying person is registered in the child ID and buys a meal himself/herself. The accompanying persons can be students, employees, or guests. An accompanying person can claim several free children's meals at the same time provided he or she is registered in all children's ID cards (e.g., parents with several children of their own).
The application for a child's ID card can be submitted to the information centres or, in Nordhausen, to the Office for Educational Support of the Studierendenwerk. When applying, please bring your current student ID and a copy of it as well as a certificate that identifies the child as your own (e.g. birth certificate) as proof. Student parents must have their child's ID card validated at the information centres every semester by presenting their current student certificate so that it does not lose its validity. 

• „Ihr Kind in guten Händen wissen“ (Knowing your child is well looked after) –  The brochure provides an overview of the childcare facilities of the Studierendenwerk Thüringen.
  
  
• Erfurt: „Studium und Kind unter einem Hut“ (Studying and child at the same time) – Printed copies of the brochure are also available from the General Social Counselling Office or from the information centres infopunkt at the University Erfurt and infopunkt at the UAS Erfurt.
  
  
• Jena: „Alles unter einem Hut: Studium, Job, Familie“ (Everything at the same time: studies, job, family) – Printed copies of the brochure are also available from the General Social Counselling Office and from the University Family Office JUniFamilie.
• Nordhausen: „Alles unter einem Hut: Studium, Job, Familie“ – (Everything at the same time: studies, job, family) Printed copies of the brochure are also available from the General Social Counselling Office and from the Family and Equal Opportunity Officer at the university.
• Weimar: „Alles unter einem Hut: Studium, Job, Familie“ (Everything at the same time: studies, job, family) – Printed copies of the brochure are also available from the General Social Counselling Office.

• The student services organizations contribute significantly and in a variety of ways to the creation of family-friendly conditions during studies. The Deutsche Studentenwerk informs you about this.
  www.studentenwerke.de/de/content/studieren-mit-kind
• The Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (www.bmfsfj.de) also offers valuable information for families:
  • Broschüre Elterngeld, ElterngeldPlus und Elternzeit (Broschure: Parental Allowance, Parental AllowancePlus and Parental Leave)
  • Useful tools: Kinderzuschlagrechner and Elterngeldrechner (How to calculate child allowance and parental allowance)
    
    
• Here you can find comprehensive information on child benefit and child allowance as well as other support options for families and children: www.familienkasse.de
  
  
• The pages of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena collect family-related information: www.uni-jena.de/familienbuero

• General Social Counselling:
  Detailed advice on organization and financing during pregnancy (maternity leave, semester off) and studying with a child (e.g., BAföG, parental allowance, ALG II, parental leave, semester off, part-time studies, etc.) is offered at the university centres of the Studierendenwerk.
  
  
• Cooperations with universities:
  • Campus-Family-Office in Ilmenau: The Campus Family Office was set up on campus together with the Technische Universität Ilmenau as a central meeting point for students and university employees - with the aim of improving the balance between studies, career, and family. The office located in the day-care centre "Studentenflöhe" provides information and advice as well as family-friendly measures and activities.
    
    
  • University Family Office “JUniFamilie“ in Jena: The JUniFamilie (Jena University Family) is a cooperation between the Studierendenwerk Thüringen and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. This university family office provides a central point of contact for all students and employees for questions on the topic of family. The University Family Office provides objective information in the areas of children, nursing care and care of dependents as well as social affairs and law.

• Stiftung Hand in Hand Thüringen (The "Hand in Hand" Foundation Thuringia)
  
  
• Eisenach:
  • Offers by the city of Eisenach
  • Equal Opportunity Coordinator of the Cooperative university
    
    
• Erfurt:
  • Offers by the city of Erfurt
  • Equality and Family Office University Erfurt
  • Coordination Office for Equality and Family UAS Erfurt
    
    
• Gera:
  • Offers by the city of Gera
  • Equal Opportunity Coordinator of the Cooperative university
    
    
• Ilmenau:
  • Offers by the city of Ilmenau
  • Staff unit Campus Familie at TU Ilmenau
    
    
• Jena:
  • Offers by the city of Jena
  • ServiceZentrum for Studies and Academic Counselling at the EAH
  • Equal Opportunity Office at FSU
  • Equal Opportunities Advisory Board of the EAH
    
    
• Nordhausen:
  • Offers by the city of Nordhausen
  • Family and equal opportunity officer of the university
    
    
• Schmalkalden:
  • Offers by the city of Schmalkalden
  • Equal Opportunity and Family Office of the university
• Weimar:
  • Offers by the city of Weimar
  • Equal Office at BU Weimar
  • Student advisory service HfM Weimar