Solidarity in the health system – the impact of health apps

LGBTQ+-group established

Queerheinbach is the first group for all LGBTQ+ students at H-BRS. Inspired by the activities of the LBST* department at the University of Bonn, Eandry Julian Fiedler first initiated a regular get-together for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. In the meantime, the group has almost 30 members and hopes to become a General Students’ Committee (AstA) department in the coming semesters. The goal is also to create a more pleasant atmosphere for students of all sexual orientations at the university by educating them on the correct use of pronouns and names, for example, and introducing gender-neutral WCs. Interested parties can get in touch via queerheinbach@gmail.com or via Instagram and Facebook.

H-BRS goes Hollywood

Two films, two themes and one protagonist – Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Sciences, portrayed by the people who shape it. Due to the Corona pandemic, neither the opening ceremony of the academic year nor the graduation ceremony could take place as an in-person event. Without further ado, two films were produced in order to ensure the graduates would not leave without a goodbye and to provide first-year students with an impression of their campus. The film “My university is ...” puts more than 30 people and their views of the university in front of the camera. Bit by bit, it paints a moving picture of the joy, commitment, ideas, projects and activities that are united in H-BRS. In the video message to the graduating class of 2019/20, the President’s Office and the faculty conveyed their congratulations, encouragement and advice for the future to the graduates. And they made a promise – the graduation ceremony will be held at a later date.

www.h-brs.de/h-brs-in-filmen

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle”

That’s what Albert Einstein said about the theory of relativity. The employees and students of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg took the famous physicist as their role model and cycled to the university. Their flashes of inspiration have not yet been recorded, but the “Cycle to Work” campaign has had a positive effect on the environment and their own health. Patron of the campaign was the university in cooperation with the health insurance company AOK and the German cycling club ADFC. In order to make cycling to the university more attractive, H-BRS has installed new covered bicycle stands and charging points for e-bikes while also increasing its fleet of university bicycles. The mood amongst students did not come through the pandemic unscathed. Stellenwerk, a network of job portals specifically for young academics and cooperation partner of H-BRS, conducted a representative survey of almost 2,000 students from 17 institutes of higher education in April and May 2020. It revealed that 18 per cent had lost their job due to the crisis at the time of the survey. 13 per cent feared that this would happen. But still, 70 per cent of all respondents were confident about the future. Amongst the respondents in the midst of their studies, this percentage was even slightly higher at 88 per cent.