Family Places on Campus

A variety of family spaces are available in several buildings on campus. At the information desk in the main building, as well as from the family team, you can obtain our well-being plan, which gives you orientation on the location of the rooms:

• Main Building/Room 025: Changing unit
• Main Building/Room113: Rest and breastfeeding room
• Laboratory and Workshop Building/Room 162: blue rest and breastfeeding room with changing unit
• House 1/Room 103: green rest and breastfeeding room with changing unit
• House 3/Room 009: red rest and breastfeeding room with changing unit
• House 5/Toilet for all: wall-mounted changing table, children's toilet
• House5/Room 002: Family room with baby changing unit

If required, we lend out a two-seater bicycle trailer which you can use for trips around campus.

In the natural green area of the campus between House 3 and the former International Meeting Centre, you will find the large sand playground under cherry trees, where students and employees of the university can linger with their children. Here you will find a nest swing, a climbing house with slide, a sand toy box and benches for the whole family to sit on.

In addition, the slide and the balancing beam in front of the canteen can be used by older children. Our green wooden chest contains a selection of sand toys, as well as a compartment specially set up for the children, in which small treasures or natural materials may find their place. You can get the key for the chest at the information desk in the main building by showing your student ID or ID card.

We ask you to take care when using our play materials so that they last for a long time.

In both the large and the small canteen, you will find a family table and enough children's chairs to give you and your children space for a meal together. The tables are marked by written and spoken games on the wall that encourage puzzling. You can use the family tables at any time in the dining rooms of the canteen on campus.

Equipped with a small selection of children's books, colouring or play materials and research niches, there are also two play areas available for children in the canteen rooms. While you are engaged in conversation with your fellow students or colleagues, the children are welcome to occupy themselves curiously and sometimes without the eyes of their parents.

In the cafeteria in the main building you will find a brand new family place that invites families with children to play and linger. Stimulating materials and small retreats for cuddling, painting or research offer you the opportunity to meet with colleagues or fellow students. If the family room is overcrowded, you will find everything you need to spend more time with your child in the cafeteria.

Here you will find a cosy corner to look at picture books, a magnetic wall and a blackboard wall to let off steam, a Pikler triangle for climbing and stimulating touch bags for the little ones. Another highlight are the new light installations on the wall, with which the children can discover their self-efficacy.

Let your children discover this room for themselves while you take a break with a coffee or sit together with fellow students or colleagues.

The campus garden is located in the heart of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam campus (between house 3 and the main building). It was created by an initiative of students and residents from the neighbourhood and has been a meeting place for all interested parties since 2016 – families and children are also welcome to participate.

With many seating areas, it is a green oasis of relaxation, especially in the warmer months. Here you can spend time with your children during break times or meet fellow students to work and study. The family team has its own small flower bed and other activities, such as organising holiday workshops, are planned in cooperation with the campus garden team.

If you ever need to have your child with you while you are at work, you can conjure up a little nursery out of the backpack.
The backpacks contain books, a wooden train, a marble run, painting toys and other toys. A blanket for lounging and snuggling up is also in the backpack.
One children's backpack can be borrowed from the reception desk in the main building or from the family team in house 5/room 026.

The children's library in the library has a wide range of picture books for children and in this way encourages a love of reading and storytelling. Rollaway carts with a reading and play area, specially developed for the library, also enable parents to study with their child in the library. You will find the children's library next to the outside staircase in the library foyer.

The family team is happy to join in the celebrations at large university festivals and always organises a new colourful children's programme with students from the early childhood education programme. The family team is also available for small parties in the department or project.

In cooperation with the Centre for University Sports, various sports courses are held for parents and children. These include an extensive range of sports courses and other measures to maintain health and relaxation for employees with family responsibilities, courses for expectant and young mothers and courses for toddlers as well as pre-school and school children. Bookings can be made through the Centre for University Sport.