27 May 2025: Your Voice for Diversity!
For 13 years now, the Diversity Charter has been calling on companies, organisations and educational institutions to take part in the annual "German Diversity Day". As a signatory to the Diversity Charter, Paderborn University wasparticularly keen to respond to this call and once again demonstrated its commitment to diversity issues on campus with numerous action stands in the library foyer on the 27th of May 2025.
Together with more than 830 organisations, we have registered one of over 2,600 activities for #DDT25 and used our #VoiceForDiversity with all members of the university. In addition to a diversity quiz, in which all interested parties could test their knowledge of diversity issues, various media and creative stations have been therefore organised this time, where a sign for diversity and tolerance could be set in a variety of ways.
Unser Programm
Von 11 bis 14 Uhr konnten alle Interessierten ihr im Foyer ihre Stimme für ein vielf?tiges Miteinander auf unserem Campus einsetzen! Dafür standen u.a. eine Fotobox, kreative Schreibprojekte in Kooperation mit dem Kompetenzzentrum Schreiben sowie voice recorder zur Aufnahme von Statements und eine Kunststation mit Leinwand, Farben & co zur Verfügung.
Im Anschluss an den Aktionstag fand au?erdem der DIV DAY OWL an der TH OWL in Detmold statt. Auch hier waren wir mit Studierenden der UPB sowie der Prodekanin für Nachhaltigkeit, Gleichstellung und Diversit?t der Fakult?t für Kulturwissenschaften vertreten und haben gemeinsam mit allen Hochschulen aus OWL mit vielf?ltigen TED-talks und (musikalischen) Beitr?gen den Diversity Tag in unserer Region gefeiert.
Per Livestream konnte ab 14:00 Uhr die Feier auch auf dem Paderborner Campus verfolgt werden. Unsere Watch Party im Foyer bei Popcorn & co war ein toller Abschluss des Tages!
The day of action at a glance
Contact person on site: Laura Maring (Diversity Officer)
Topic of the stand: Raise your voice for Diversity! At this stand, we will give you the opportunity to record short audio statements about diversity on campus. A high-resolution audio recorder with a microphone connection will be available for you to record short messages. You can also test your knowledge in the annual diversity quiz.
Contact persons on site: Tatjana Lüke (AStA Equal Opportunities Officer) and Noelle Maicher-Hoff (Family Service Office)
Topic of the stand: Do you think a picture can express much more than wordy statements? Then this stand is the right place for you! A reflex camera with tripod will be available for you to take your snapshot for Diversity. Get creative and show us what diversity means to you on campus with a photo.
Contact person on site: Frauke Poggenpohl and Zoé Lickmeyer (Competence Centre for Writing at Paderborn University)
Topic of the stand: Wordy diversity, poems & co are your thing? Then stop by the stand of the Competence Centre for Writing! Here you can get creative with paper and pen on our pinboard or digitally with tablets & co and make a statement for diversity in your very own words. There will also be plenty of inspiration in the form of various texts.
Contact person on site: Lena Sauer (Centre for Gender Studies)
Theme of the stand: Canvases, colours, brushes - and plenty of space for your ideas! Whether abstract, colourful or imaginative: you can express yourself artistically at this stand. Paint, draw or design as you see fit. We look forward to your contributions, come along and put your thoughts on diversity and tolerance on canvas.
Contact persons on site: Sevim Kaya, Laureen Gr?flich and Marla Baier (ArbeiterKind.de/ Paderborn group)
Topic of the stand: Come to our Watch Party in the foyer and make yourself comfortable with popcorn & co! We can follow the DIV DAY OWL in Detmold on the Paderborn campus via livestream from 02:00 pm to 4:30 pm . Paderborn University will be there with students and its own contributions to celebrate Diversity Day together with other universities in the region. Have fun watching!
The team behind Diversity Day 2025
- Dr Larissa Eikermann, Vice Dean for Sustainability, Equality and Diversity of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Laura Maring, Diversity Officer
- Tatjana Lüke, AStA Equal Opportunities Officer
- Team of the Writing Competence Centre
- Team of the Centre for Gender Studies (GZ)
- Team of the Paderborn branch of Arbeiterkind.de
Impressions of Diversity Day 2025 at Paderborn University
Your voices for Diversity! Audio statements @UPB Campus 2025
We asked you to raise your voices for Diversity - and you did! Here?s a snippet of the audio data we collected at Diversity Day 2025.
DIV DAY OWL – the UPB took part: on site in Detmold, with a watch party in the foyer and digitally via live stream!
On the afternoon of 27 May, DIV DAY OWL took place at TH OWL in Detmold. We were also represented here by students from the UPB and the Vice-Dean for Sustainability, Equality and Diversity of the Faculty of Cultural Studies, and together with all the universities in OWL, we celebrated Diversity Day in our region with a variety of TED talks and (musical) contributions.
We were able to follow the celebration on the Paderborn campus via livestream from 2:00 p.m. to around 4:30 p.m. It was great that you joined our watch party in the foyer and made yourselves comfortable with us with popcorn and other snacks!
Have you missed the livestream? You can watch it again here at any time.
We are already looking forward to next year, when DIV DAY OWL will take place here in Paderborn!
