Certificates and Memberships

To facilitate a quick integration, the university offers a number of German language courses, organizes intercultural training, and matches up tandem partners who want to learn one another’s language.

The University of Potsdam is implementing its concept to improve teaching consistently.

The Audit "Internationalization of Universities" supports German universities to align their internationalization strategically.

The Accreditation Council has the statutory task of organizing the system of quality assurance in learning and teaching through accreditation.

The TOTAL E-QUALITY Award is presented for activities in terms of human resource management aimed at providing equal opportunity. Since 2020 the UP additionally had the ad-on for diversity.

Implementation of the European Charter for Researchers and the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) at the University of Potsdam

As a partner of the initiative, the UP aims to establish gender equity in terms of study and career choices in the STEM field, e.g. with the orientation week tasteMINT or Roberta workshops.

The University of Potsdam has successfully completed the “Vielfalt gestalten” Diversity Audit and received a certificate from the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft.

The National Conference promotes interuniversity cooperation in education and science and is concerned with higher education policy issues.

The network stands for orientation for prospective students and science propaedeutics at schools and institutions of higher education.

The worldwide network „Scholars at Risk“ with over 400 higher education institutions in 39 countries is working to protect threatened scholars and to promote academic freedom.

EDUC is an European higher education alliance of six different countries that creates an inclusive space for people of diverse cultures, backgrounds and goals.

The “Young European Research Universities” network strengthens European cooperation at young research universities with regard to research, academic training, and mobility.

Students at the University of Potsdam can benefit from study opportunities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico through the North American CONAHEC network with over 170 member universities.

The EUA represents over 800 universities in Europe and plays an important role in the Bologna Process through its influence on EU policies in the fields of higher education, research and innovation.

With the Charter Family Life and Academia, the members of this network commit themselves to the implementation and further development of equal opportunity for families at the university.