SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Guidelines on integration The integration of people with disabilities in the working environment at Forschungszentrum Jülich is regulated by an integration agreement. The agreement aims to remove or alleviate any barriers faced by those with disabilities. This explicitly involves supporting the careers of employees with disabilities, to be achieved by appointing disabled people and providing training, by funding measures for integration and rehabilitation, and by providing an accessible working environment. For instance, Forschungszentrum Jülich encourages applications from people with disabilities in all of its job advertisements. In this context, but also in a wider sense, Forschungs zentrum Jülich is opposed to all forms of discrimination. Auditing In an effort to improve business processes as well as to ensure an efficient, economic, and proper use of funds and to safeguard assets, the Auditing staff unit, reporting directly to the Board of Directors, was established at Forschungszentrum Jülich. It investigates, assesses, and monitors aspects such as the efficacy of the internal control system and, in particular, of the processes involved in the accounting system. In addition, the internal Auditing team provides a number of auditing and consultancy services to third parties on behalf of both the Board of Directors and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and also works closely with external audit bodies such as the German Federal Audit Office and the Audit Office of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as with public auditors. All auditing activities are based on the principles of the German Institute of Internal Auditors (DIIR) as well as those of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) and the recommendations compiled on this basis for the establishment of auditing departments in the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
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