Family places
at the Viadrina
If students or employees want or need to take their child with them to university, the following family locations offer rooms tailored to the needs of parents and children.
Parents decide for themselves whether to take their child to a course. Children who can keep themselves quiet for 90 minutes or babies should also be welcome by lecturers and fellow students.
The parent-child room is located in the Main Building, basement K20. The key for the room can be obtained from the porter.
It is available to university members with children in order to combine childcare with urgent work or studies in cases of illness, daycare centre closures and the like. The room is equipped with a workstation with computer and in-house telephone for the parents and toys and books for the children. It enables parents to work on the computer in a child-friendly environment at the university. The room can also be used for the Viadrina emergency childcare centre. It offers space for the care of up to five children.
The room is located directly next to the copy centre in the basement of the Main Building. With a pushchair, please use either the lift to get to the basement or the courtyard entrance opposite St Mary's Church, right-hand door towards the photocopying desk.
The University Library welcomes parents and their young children. To keep children quietly occupied, the library has a box of children's books and colouring books that can be borrowed in the entrance area.
In the main building, the building in which the library is located, there is also a breastfeeding and quiet room on the same floor (R84). In the basement there is a parent-child room with rest and play facilities (K20).
There is a play corner for children in the canteen in the Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building. There are several highchairs and baby bouncers available. Bottle warmers can be borrowed from the staff.
Children of student parents only pay the student price for their meal.
The breastfeeding and quiet room is located in Main Building room 84. The key for this room is available at the gate.
It is a place of retreat and rest for all members of the university. There is a lounger with a blanket for students and staff who need a break and for pregnant women who want to rest. Mothers can breastfeed their children or express milk in peace. A comfortable nursing chair with a nursing cushion and a footstool are available for this purpose. The room is also equipped with a small play corner with cushions, a ball track, books, a children's table, colouring materials, games and much more. Parents who come to the university with their children can spend time here together with their children.
A playground at the northern end of the newly designed university square invites children to play and run around. There is a playhouse, two swings and three trampolines on the action area directly in front of St Mary's Church and a rotating carousel, spring seesaw and satellite carousel on the lawn in front of it.
Main Building:
Changing facilities in the disabled toilet opposite room 016 and in the parent-child room K20 (key available at the gate).
Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building:
Changing facilities in the disabled toilet next to the canteen.
Auditorium Maximum:
Changing facilities in the ladies' toilet and in the men's toilet in the waiting area of the Department of Student Affairs.
Logenhaus
Changing facilities in the disabled toilet on the ground floor (ground-level entrance via the courtyard).
Collegium Polonicum:
Changing table in the ladies' and men's toilets on the ground floor, access via the ramp to the right of the entrance, toilets on the right corridor.
August-Bebel-Strasse:
Changing table in the disabled toilet on the 1st floor.
Main Building:
The Main Building has a lift that you can access from the courtyard. You can use the lift to access all floors. To do this, take the courtyard entrance opposite St Mary's Church and cross the courtyard diagonally to the left. The lift is then located in the building. There is also another lift that can be reached from the courtyard of honour and goes up one floor (library, cafeteria).
Auditorium Maximum (AM):
The lift in the AM is located in the entrance area on the left-hand side. You can use this lift to reach all floors.
Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building (GD):
The GD is equipped with two lifts. These are located on the left-hand side behind the pinboards as seen from the entrance. You can use the lifts to reach all floors.
Logenhaus (LH)
The lift in the LH can be reached from the courtyard side.
August-Bebel-Strasse (AB):
The lift in the AB can be reached both from the courtyard/car park and from the front entrance (tram). It is located directly next to the stairs.