Family Service

When organizing work, studies and family care work, individual questions and concerns often arise. In our confidential consultation for university members (students and personnel), we are available to you as contact persons in the context of compatibility and will find solutions with you or provide you with further information and addresses. We work in a large network with internal and external cooperation partners. Your data will only be passed on in accordance with your needs and after consultation in individual cases.

Consultation can take place by e-mail, telephone or in person.

You are also welcome to send us your request in advance by e-mail via familienservice@hs-niederrhein.de.

Dear students,

Every few months, we organize networking meetings for students with children at the Mönchengladbach campus.

Balancing your studies and parenthood is not always easy. With these networking meetings, we want to offer you a platform to exchange experiences, share tips, and support each other. The focus is on informal discussion in a relaxed atmosphere – both on topics relevant to your studies and on the challenges of everyday life as a student with children.

Agenda:

• Getting to know each other and sharing experiences
• Promoting the compatibility of studies and family life
• Joint ideas for future network meetings

Snacks and drinks will be provided. Your children are also welcome. Age-appropriate play facilities will be provided for them in the event room.

Would you like to participate? Then please send an email to netzwerktreffen(at)asta.hn to be added to our mailing list and receive information about upcoming event dates. Your contact person is student Swetlana Koch. 

The event is supported by the AStA, by the LAKUM and the family service of the Hochschule Niederrhein.

Next event date:

Monday, 01.12.2025, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Mönchengladbach Campus
To help us plan better, please register in advance by 24.11.2025 at the following address: netzwerktreffen(at)asta.hn

For children of university-affiliated parents (employees/students), reserved places are available in the city of Mönchengladbach's vacation program during several weeks of the 2025 NRW school vacations. This program takes place in the facilities “Gemeinschaftszentrum Das Westend” and “Stadtteilhaus PE12” with excursions to the surrounding area. You can take advantage of the places regardless of where you live. Please note that the number of places is limited and subject to conditions. Registrations are possible from now until four weeks before the start of the respective vacation camp at the latest.

Costs: according to the conditions of the city of Mönchengladbach

Available vacation weeks at the community center “Das Westend”:

Easter vacation: 22.04. - 25.04.2025

Summer vacation: 11.08. - 22.08.2025 

Autumn vacation: 13.10. - 24.10.2025 (except Saturdays and Sundays)
Age: 6 to 12 years old
Click here for the program.
Registration deadline: 12.09.2025

Available vacation weeks and childcare times in “Stadtteilhaus PE12”:

Easter vacation: 14.04. - 25.04.2025

Summer vacation: 14.07. - 18.07.2025 / 21.07.- 25.07.2025

Autumn vacation: 13.10. - 17.10.2025
Age group: 6 to 11 years old
Care hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Theme: Auf den Spuren von Dolores, der flotten Dohle (book by Meike Hahnraths)
Program: A mix of excursions to various sights in Mönchengladbach, as well as creative activities and games at PE12
Registration deadline: 19.09.2025
 

Autumn vacation: 20.10.-23.10.2025
Age group: 12 to 14 years old
Flexible hours, adapted to the respective daily program
Theme: Halloween/spooky
Program: Mix of excursions (e.g. night hike) and activities at PE12, including 1 overnight stay
Registration deadline: 19.09.2025

Registration:
To register, please get in touch directly with the contact persons at the two facilities listed below (by phone or email).

There are five places available per vacation week in both facilities, which will be allocated in the order in which registrations are received.

When registering, please indicate that the children are children of employees or students of the Hochschule Niederrhein. The code word for registration is “Hochschulkinder”.

Community center “Das Westend”: Alexianerstr. 6, 41061 Mönchengladbach, contact person: Simone Jüngling (coordination children's area), Tel. 02161 83 7005, Email: simone.juengling@moenchengladbach.de

Stadtteilhaus PE12: Pestalozzistraße 12, 41236 Mönchengladbach, contact person: Sina Ebert, Tel: 02161 25 3203, Email: sina.ebert@moenchengladbach.de

Registration period for places: No later than 4 weeks before the respective vacation camp

The Hochschule Niederrhein attaches great importance to the compatibility of family and/or studies and career. As part of the "Family-friendly university" audit, we have set ourselves the task of supporting our academics, employees and students with childcare.

For this reason, we have been offering childcare places for children aged 0-3 years in the daycare center "MaxiMUMM" in Krefeld in cooperation with the daycare provider "Mumm Familienservices GmbH" since fall 2018. The daycare center in Krefeld is located at Ispelsstraße 60, between the Krefeld West and Krefeld South Campuses.

Since 2020, The Hochschule Niederrhein has also been offering childcare places for children aged 0-3 at the Mönchengladbach campus in cooperation with the daycare provider "Mumm Familienservices GmbH". The childcare places are available at the "MUMMI" daycare center at Bruckner Allee 14-16, near the campus in Mönchengladbach. If no capacities are available here, the cooperation partner will look for a suitable alternative for you.

You can find more information about the two daycare centers mentioned above on the website of the provider "Mumm Familienservice gGmbH": https: //mumm-mg.de/.

The placement of a U3-occupancy place is handled exclusively by The Hochschule Niederrhein.

Would you like to register for a place or receive more information?
Then please contact us by e-mail at familienservice@hs-niederrhein.de or by phone at 02151 822 3643 .

In general, we recommend that you contact us no later than the fall/winter of the previous year in which the childcare is scheduled to begin on 01.08.
We also recommend that you apply for alternative places in parallel through the usual channels.

Further information:

The Hochschule Niederrhein does not have access to the childcare places at the "Campus-Zwerge" daycare center at the Mönchengladbach campus.
Registration and allocation of places is coordinated by the Studierendenwerk Düsseldorf:
https://www.stw-d.de/kindertagesstaetten/campus-zwerge/

Information on the allocation of daycare places and the online registration system "Kita-Online" in Krefeld:
https://www.krefeld.de/familienportal/inhalt/kita-online/

Information on Kita place allocation and the online registration system "Kita-Navigator" in Mönchengladbach:
https://moenchengladbach.kita-navigator.org/

University members (students and employees) have access to a parent-child room at both locations, which can be used by parents together with their child/children. The rooms are equipped with a workstation, nursing pillows, and a variety of play options, and are each connected to a diaper changing room.

You can book the parent-child rooms online (click on the rooms to be redirected). To make a booking, you will need your university ID and your personal password, which you also use to log in to the HN Identity Manager.

Use your login details to log in to the booking portal and select the day and time slot that suits you.
Please note that you can book the room for a maximum of five hours and up to one week in advance.

You will receive the key after presenting your booking confirmation at the respective library Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. after signing the declaration of consent. Please bring your identity card with you. On the day of use, please check the library's website to see whether it is open as usual or whether there are any restrictions.

• AE31C at Krefeld South Campus(on campus map at "family service")
• E105 at the campus Mönchengladbach(on campus map at "family service")

Procedure for room use:

• Online booking via the booking portal (click on the respective room)
• Pick up the key in the library at the location of the parent-child room
  (present your booking confirmation and Identy card)
• Sign the declaration of consent for the use of the parent-child room in the library
• Use of the room within the booked period and, if applicable, take the printed feedback form with you
• Please leave the room as tidy as you found it
• Return the key to the library
• Return your feedback form via the green mailbox at the parent-child room or send your feedback by email to familienservice(at)hs-niederrhein.de

To support university members who bring their child(ren) to the university, designated parent-child parking spaces are available at the Krefeld South Campus and Krefeld West Campus. Short-term use of the parking lot by parents who drop off their child(ren) at a childcare facility on their way to the university is not planned due to limited capacity.

• Krefeld-South: opposite the family service/Equalization (Building A)
• Krefeld-West: next to the AStA (Building Q)

With the baby welcome package, we would like to extend a warm welcome to the newborns of students at our university. The application for an HSNR baby welcome package can be submitted to the family service by the university-affiliated parent after the birth of the child. As soon as the package is ready, we will contact you to make an individual appointment for pick-up in Krefeld South or Mönchengladbach.

Feel free to submit your application via one of the following ways:

1. by mail (Hochschule Niederrhein, family service, Reinarzstr. 49, 47805 Krefeld)
2. digitally as a scan by e-mail to .

You can find the application form in the right column under Downloads.

At the locations in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, there are freely accessible changing rooms that can be used by both relatives and guests of the university. If you would like to breastfeed or feed your child in peace, you can retreat to our breastfeeding and quiet rooms.

We have set up a total of four play corners for children in our university buildings, which are freely accessible during regular building opening hours.

The play corners in our libraries on the Krefeld-Süd campus and on the Mönchengladbach campus are equipped with

• a comfortable beanbag chair
• a large play box with games for small and older children (up to about 8 years)
• movement games on the wall (Mönchengladbach)
• a digital game screen on the wall (Krefeld-Süd) 

In the Kids Corner of the learning landscape in Building X of the Mönchengladbach campus, students can work while their children have interesting things to do, including a digital play table.

In our Future Work Lab in Krefeld city center, there is a large magnetic play wall and a giant plush bunny for children to discover.

When redesigning our outdoor areas, we make sure that they also invite families to linger.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

If work and/or studies are to be combined with additional, private care responsibilities, this often results in a complex situation for those affected. In addition to financial aspects, questions of organization, time and content play a role.

Then please write to us

• via our contact form
• directly by e-mail to familienservice@hs-niederrhein.de
• or send us a message via our green mailboxes at the Krefeld South Campus and Mönchengladbach Campus.
  You can also use the mailboxes anonymously.