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Project with the Techniker Health Insurance

Expanding a health oriented campus culture

The University of Konstanz has started a cooperation with Techniker Health Insurance to implement a project in the field of occupational health management. The project will run until the end of 2022 and is intended to strengthen the health promotion of employees as a university strategy.

The following goals have been set

  • Make health topics in the scientific field more accessible to the public
  • Better address scientists with targeted health offers
  • Make working conditions in the professional services more health-oriented
  • Support employees in different phases of life to stay healthy or to become healthy again
  • Strengthen employer branding with health management and convince researchers and employees to come to the University of Konstanz
  • Anchoring occupational health management as a university strategy

Members of the Steering Committee

  • Academic Staff Development: Dr. Julia Breitbach, Dr. Bettina Duval
  • Occupational Safety and Health: Dr. Heiko Hofmann, Heike Strauß
  • University Sports: Petra Borchert
  • Staff Development for Professional Services: Kerstin Melzer
  • Staff Council: N.N.

Other participants

  • Techniker Health Insurance: Christoph Kapp
  • External process facilitator: Cordula Schweers

Project duration

From January 2020 until December 2022