SUB KiStE

Spielkisten auf dem Campus

There are toy boxes with toys for all ages at various locations. You can find a list here:

• In the SUB-Hüsli (Lerchenweg 32) you can borrow the SUB toy box! It contains toys and a blanket and is available at the SUB office during opening hours. You can also reserve it. Use it wherever you want. If something breaks or gets dirty, please tell us so we can take care of it. And bring it back after use ;-)
• In the UniS foyer (Schanzeneckstr. 1) you will find the second play box, which was made possible in cooperation with the Department for Equal Opportunities. This box is permanently installed and the toys can be taken out and used.
• The third (mobile) play box is located in the parent-child room in room -111 at Mittelstrasse 43.

Parent-child rooms

There are already five parent-child rooms, which serve as work and play spaces during childcare bottlenecks, as meeting rooms, for breastfeeding, or as a quiet room. These rooms are accessible to students and employees of the University of Bern.

• vonRoll building: Fabrikstrasse 8, room B002, leaflet available in German
• Main building: Hochschulstrasse 6, room 012, leaflet available in German
• Uni Mittelstrasse 43: room -111, leaflet available in German
• IBMM, Bühlstrasse 28: room 223, guidelines
• Small animal clinic: Länggassstrasse 128, Lehrgebäude124c,room 065, information

Breastfeeding and pumping milk

You can breastfeed and pump milk here:

• vonRoll building: Fabrikstrasse 8, room A015, guidelines in German
• Unitobler: Muesmattstr. 45, room D411 (incl. fridge). For a key, please contact the Dean's Office of the Phil.-hist. Faculty. If you have questions, please contact 
• GIUB: Hallerstr. 12, room 306, registration: 
• In the buildings Unitobler, UniS, Uni Hauptgebäude, Uni H6, ExWi, Bühlplatzareal and Uni Engehalde in the respective sanitary rooms.
  Please register here with the Equal Opportunities Department before using it for the first time: 
• Inselareal: IFIK, MEM
• Small animal clinic: Länggassstrasse 128, room 065
• Departement for BioMedical Research (DBMR): Murtenstrasse 24-28, room 040

Changing tables

Changing tables are available in all wheelchair-friendly toilets and in the following rooms:

• UniS: At the Cubus in the entrance hall (WC-D)
• Unitobler: room D411 or toilet in the basement
• H6:  First aid room in the basement
• ExWi:  First aid room on the ground floor

Highchairs for children in the cafeterias and canteens

Highchairs for toddlers are available in the following canteens and cafeterias: 

• Canteen Gesellschaftsstrasse
• Canteen and cafeteria vonRoll
• UNIESS Bistro Bar Lounge
• Canteen Unitobler

Libraries

Basisbibliothek Unitobler & Library Münstergasse have areas for children to play (incl. children's books). 

Daycare (Kita)

The occupancy times in the KIHOB daycare centers are determined semester by semester and can thus be adapted to the current timetable and your needs. Further information is available here.

Daycare during conferences

Childcare (age: 4 months old to 7 years old) for participants in internal or public conferences and congresses. Registration by the institute or the conference or congress organization, at least 2 months before the desired childcare date. Further information in German is available here.

Plan B - short-term care at home on short notice

In the event of extraordinary, short-term care bottlenecks in the family (e.g. illness of the child), KIHOB also provides care at home.  The journey by public transport from Bern Länggasse should not take longer than 45 minutes. A reservation can be made from Monday to Thursday between 8.00 and 20.00 (2-6 hours/day). For further information in German please see here.

Marginal hours care

The KIHOB also looks after children (age: 4 months to 7 years) of participants in meetings. Meeting childcare is also available to members of the University of Bern who do not otherwise use any of the services offered by the KIHOB Foundation. Childcare hours: Monday to Friday, 17.30 to 20.00.
For more information in German, see here.

SUB Social Fund

The Social Fund is available to SUB or MVUB members and mobility students in acute financial emergencies. To bridge financial difficulties, the Social Fund Commission can grant an amount of up to CHF 5000 in the form of a support contribution or loan. Further information is available here.

Social Fund Foundation ("Stiftung Sozialkasse")

The purpose of the Social Fund Foundation ("Stiftung Sozialkasse") of the University of Bern is to support enrolled students who are in an acute financial emergency (unforeseen, through no fault of their own and not permanent) and who are foreseeably (i.e. one semester, in justified exceptional cases a maximum of two semesters) about to complete a Bachelor's or Master's degree. The information sheet on submitting an application, the forms "Budget Statement" and "Financing Plan" are available on the unibe-website under Student Financing. Further information is available here.