Families welcome
Our family office supports families at the institute
Relocating with your family is a big step with lots to think about and organize. If you have decided to move to Bochum with your family, we would like to assist you so that you can settle in as quickly as possible both in the city as well as at our Institute. Our aim is for you to feel at home soon after your arrival, which is why we support you before, during and after your stay with all issues related to family and children.
Our family office offers support and advice on all topics that concern you, for example:
- housing for families
- daycare and school places
- childcare
- bringing children to the office
- taking children on business trips
- getting connected with other families at MPI/in Bochum (we are taking part in the project “Tandem Families” of MPG)
- pediatricians
- offers for children in the city (libraries, playgrounds, music school...)
Please contact us with any questions you may have. We will be happy to help you!
Via a framework of the Max Planck Society the institute offers its employees to make use of the pme family service, which offers support in all life situations. The portfolio includes:
- placement of childcare personnel in private households (e.g., babysitters, au-pair, “hired grandmas”)
- emergency care, i.e., a very short-term placement of caregivers in emergencies
- care during conferences (school-age children) and holiday care (children up to 14 years)
- elderly and homecare services as well as placement of domestic staff
The Max Planck Society covers the costs for the consultation and mediation services of the family service. The costs of the actual care are borne by the parents.
We are supported by the Family Office of the general headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich.