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Compatibility - because care affects everyone

How can work or study and family be balanced? What childcare options are there, fixed or flexible? What support is available for family carers?

The compatibility of family and career or studies is a major concern at TU Graz. The aim is to provide all members of TU Graz with an environment that is as supportive and non-discriminatory as possible, be it for studying, research, teaching or working in administration.

The Compatibility Team would like to support you in achieving a good work-life balance and offers a comprehensive range of advice and information for people who want to manage the challenges of everyday life and their own energy resources well.

TU Graz Offers

Compatibility team at TU Graz: Gudrun Haage, Claudia Wessely, Armanda Pilinger

The Crèche and Nursery School at the TU Graz Nanoversity

The TU Graz nanoversity is an open childcare facility on the TU Graz campus in St. Peter. Volkshilfe Styria runs the facility in accordance with the Styrian Child Education and Care Law within the framework of the Graz tariff model. TU Graz is the owner.

Registration takes place at the official office of the City of Graz: Pre-registration with the City of Graz
The children of TU Graz staff and students are given preference.
Because only a few free spaces are available each year, not all children of TU Graz members can be accepted.

Additional childcare options in Graz online kindergarten / crèche map

Groups and Opening Hours

4 crèche groups for up to 56 children from 0 to 3 years of age
  • 2 crèche groups are run part-time (half a day):
    Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to  1:30 p.m. or 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  • 2 crèche groups are run full-time:
    Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. or 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
2 nursery school groups are
  • For up to 60 children from 1.5 years of age until the age when pre-school is no longer compulsory
    Open Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. or 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • Both nursery school groups are run full-time throughout the year. Childcare is also offered during the holiday periods: summer holidays, Christmas holidays, semester break and ‘bridge days’ (between holidays and weekend days).

Location

The nanoversity childcare facility at TU Graz
Inffeldgründe, Petersgasse 136
8010 Graz
Area Map

Virtual nanoversity tour

Fleki – Flexible Childcare at TU Graz

Fleki childcare offers flexible, hourly care of children with 1 to 12 years of age. For the children of

  • TU Graz employees,
  • TU Graz students (proof of at least 8 ECTS points from the last semester required),
  • members of associations and companies with which TU Graz is involved.

With the exception of minimal parental contributions, TU Graz funds this offer to enhance the family and study/work-balance of its members.

Opening Hours and Capacities

  • Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • 15 children at most per day
  • Registration is required at earliest one week, and no later than 12 noon on the day before the desired childcare
  • Care is offered all year and during the summer holidays, see Summer Childcare

Location

Flexible childcare at TU Graz, nanoversity
Inffeldgründe, Petersgasse 136
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 30595
Location

Summer Childcare

During the summer, children have 9 weeks of holidays, while parents have only 5 weeks of vacation during the entire year. Many parents need exciting summer childcare for their children. The TU Graz Representative for Work/Studies-Life Balance provides counselling and information for TU Graz staff and students about childcare possibilities during summer.

In the TU Graz Flexible Childcare

Fleki, a childcare facility that offers flexible hours, is open during the Styrian summer holidays. The children of TU Graz students and staff as well as members of associations and companies with which TU Graz is involved are cared for.

This offer is open to children with 1 to 8 years of age.

Cooperation for Summer Care

Care services

  • Support with questions about care and nursing in the private sphere
  •  Monthly online care get-together
  •  Coaching services in acute cases of need
  • UniKid-UniCare Austria event series
  •  Fit for care courses (Pflegefitkurse)

Online care get-together

The online get-together for people who accompany people with support and care needs in their environment.

Please find more information and dates in the flyer ( in German)

Support and Information

The TU Graz Representative for Work/Studies-Life Balance provides counselling and information for TU Graz staff and students on all topics related to childcare and the enhancement of the family and study/work-balance.

Topics

  • Childcare
  • Flexible childcare
  • Summer childcare
  • Care of sick children
  • Paternity leave
  • Offsetting childcare costs
  • Events about enhancing the work- or study-life balance

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Claudia WESSELY
Representative for Work/Studies-Life Balance
Mandellstraße 5, 1st floor
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 6095
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Networks

In German:

  • UniKid-UniCare Austria: Netzwerk der Expert*innen und Anlaufstellen für Vereinbarkeit von Beruf/Studium und familiären Sorgepflichten an österreichischen Universitäten.
  • CAREseiten zeigen: Veranstaltungsreihe des Netzwerks UniKid-UniCare Austria zu Care-Themen für die Bedeutungen für den Studien- und Arbeitsort. Alle Veranstaltungen finden online statt und werden in österreichischer Gebärdensprache gedolmetscht.

The following could also be of interest

Education in Austria

Childcare Facilities

On the website of the City of Graz you can find information on childcare facilities in German.