Committees & Organization

The members of the GWZ Berlin e.V. Executive Board are

The members of the GWZ Berlin e.V. Board of Trustees are

Members of the General Meeting - with voting rights:

Works Council of the Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e. V.

On the basis of the Works Constitution Act (BetrVG), the elected joint Works Council of the GWZ represents the rights and interests of all employees.

The Council works confidentially. It is committed to promoting good working conditions, social interests, compatibility of career, private life, and family, and provides support in problems and conflicts related to work. The Works Council acts on behalf of people with severe disabilities and equivalent status as well as on behalf of foreign employees. Together with the Centers’ Equal Opportunity Officers, it actively promotes actual gender equality. The Works Council’s general duties and spheres of responsibility are regulated in § 80 of the Works Constitution Act.

Employees of the three institutions ZAS, ZfL, and ZMO can address their concerns to the Council as a whole or to an individual Council member at any time, and not necessarily to Council representatives of their own Center.

GWZ employees elect the Council members for a period of four years. At regular intervals general joint works meetings are held at the GWZ, where the Council presents its activities to the employees, addressing their wishes and concerns.

Mission Statement

The following mission statement is shared by all three Leibniz Institutes (ZfL, ZAS and ZMO) under the auspices of the GWZ Berlin.

The three research centers and the joint administration strive to achieve equal opportunities for all their employees as a central guiding principle of their organizational and personnel development strategies.

The GWZ support the Leibniz Association's goals of equal opportunities and diversity and firmly oppose discrimination and disadvantage based on ethnic origin, gender, religion and belief, disability, age and sexual identity in accordance with the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). The GWZ Berlin, as the responsible body for the three Leibniz institutions, is subject to the Leibniz Association's equality standards and the implementation agreement to the GWK agreement on equality between women and men in joint research funding (AV-Glei).

The GWZ actively work towards equality between women and men in accordance with Article 3 (2) of the Basic Law (GG) and the Berlin State Equal Opportunities Act (LGG). This includes reducing existing discrimination and continuously improving the compatibility of work, private life and family for employees in the academic and research-supporting fields and at all career levels.

The GWZ consider the compatibility of family and career to be an important strategic element in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified employees. They are committed to the early and sustained promotion of female academics, particularly with regard to the critical phases of an academic career, i.e. the transitions between qualification phases.

In areas where women are underrepresented, the GWZ strives to increase the proportion of women among its employees, particularly at management levels (FSP management, project management), among postdoctoral researchers and in permanent positions. The implementation of the guiding principle of equal opportunities and diversity includes a gender- and diversity-sensitive work and organizational culture at the institute and respectful treatment in everyday work and communication.

The research centers have developed individual equality concepts.

Gender equality concept ZAS
Gender equality concept ZFL
Gender equality concept ZMO

Humanities Centers Berlin e.V.