Sexual Harassment & Bullying Counselling Office

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Sexual Harassment & Bullying Counselling Office

The counseling service offers confidential psychosocial counseling for incidents of sexual harassment and bullying at the University of Vienna. The contents of the conversations are strictly confidential and will not be shared, even within the university.


Counseling
Psychosocial counseling: Dr. Barbara Grubner
Legal counseling for complaints against students: Sofija Lazić

Formal complaints against employees
Please contact Mag. Dr. Christina Winter, Head of the Department of Human Resources and Gender Equality unit.

 

 

Target group

The Counselling Office is open to all employees and students.

Offer

Consultations are free of charge and confidential. If desired, it's also anonymous.

Capacity

The Counselling Office does not have any power to intervene or to impose sanctions.

"The University of Vienna conceives itself as a community of all its members: individuals of different age and sex, of different social and geographic origin, shaped by different situations in life and by different experiences, world views, and abilities.

Hence any dealings between members of the University shall be marked by mutual respect and esteem. Intolerance, discriminating or offensive behaviour, or favouritism, will not in any way be accepted at the University of Vienna; this also applies to third parties […].

Sexual harassment and mobbing of any kind are incompatible with the principle of mutual respect in interpersonal relations; they shall therefore not in any way be tolerated at the University of Vienna, and may prompt sanctions under criminal or labour law."

(Source: University of Vienna's Code of Conduct, p. 1-2)