Diversity Day 2026

Inclusion concerns us all!

10:30 a.m. - Welcome
Prof. Dr Walter Schober (President THI)
Dr Michael Kern (Mayor of Ingolstadt)
Prof. Dr Klaus Stüwe (Vice President KU)

11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - A variety of hands-on activities and information stands in the auditorium
Contact points from the city and region present their offers and make inclusion tangible.

14:00 to 18:00 - Lectures & workshops on the topic of inclusion
Researchers and people from the field provide in-depth insights into life with disabilities.

19:00 - Cinema evening: "What's normal?"
French comedy about two crooks who hide out with a group of people with disabilities.
Popcorn and drinks included!

Lectures & workshops

2 pm - Inclusion on campus: Studying with disabilities and impairments using the example of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Speaker: Nina Savarini, representative for students with disabilities, chronic illnesses and impairments at the KU
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Hybrid event in lecture theatre E003
Link to online participation

3 p.m. - And suddenly everything is different: What we should know about mental crises
Speaker: Eugenia Knauer, Area Coordination Region 10, Crisis Service Psychiatry Upper Bavaria
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Hybrid event in lecture theatre E003
Link to online participation

4 p.m. - Neurodivergence
Speaker: Franziska Herzner, research associate at the Centre for Teacher Education, KU
Duration: approx. 30-45 minutes
Hybrid event in lecture theatre E003
Link to online participation

5 p.m. - Made invisible and overpowered? -Experiences of women and girls
with disabilities in the context of sexual education and sexuality
Speaker: Helena Czech, research associate at the Central Institute for Marriage and Family in Society, KU
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Hybrid event in lecture theatre E003
Link to online participation

1 - 3 pm - Workshop by the UNESCO Futures Lab: The Future of Inclusion
Futures Literacy is a UNESCO approach. It helps people to consciously use the future to develop new perspectives for the present. In the UNESCO Futures Lab at THI, participants work in four simple steps: they visualise their previous ideas of inclusion, develop new visions of the future, reflect on their meaning and derive concrete ideas for today. The aim: to rethink inclusion and jointly develop ideas for a more open and fairer world of higher education and work. Participants: 8 -25 people

Registration is requested at gerhard.schoenhofer@thi.de

Peer walk
11:30 and 17:30 Peer walk offer (90 min. each)
Meeting point: in front of lecture theatre E003

Walks and gentle Qi Gong

Information stands and hands-on activities in the auditorium

AOK
Various blood alcohol levels and cannabis consumption are simulated with alcohol and drug goggles

Autism Self-Help Region 10

Barrier Braker / Experience barriers in a playful way
Try out specific everyday tasks such as writing and reading messages or buying tickets under unfamiliar conditions

BayAK (Bavarian Chamber of Architects)
Information stand on the topic of accessibility in construction

Bavarian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Poor eyesight - what does this mean in everyday life? (self-awareness)

Bürgerhaus / Volunteer Centre
Information stand and hands-on activities on the topic of impaired vision

Caritas
VOICE OVER experience exhibition brings mental illness to life with the senses

Epilepsy counselling centre IN
What is epilepsy? Information, dialogue and insights into support for sufferers and families

EUTB (supplementary independent participation counselling)
Participation for all - advice & support and a quiz on the topic of inclusion

Deaf association
Insight into sign language and deaf culture, stamp your own name in the finger alphabet

Equal Opportunities Centre Ingolstadt
Equality game

Gotthold-Ephraim Lessing Primary School
Living and learning at Gotthold-Ephraim Lessing Primary School (all-day inclusion)

Hollerhaus
Wheelchair course and age simulation suit: my life in 20 years' time

Hospizverein Ingolstadt e.V.
Every person has the right to effective, coordinated medical, nursing, psychosocial and spiritual care and support in every place of life - Charter for the seriously ill and dying: Fulfilling this right is both a mission and a matter close to the hospice association's heart!

IFD (Integration Specialist Service Ingolstadt)
Info stand with wheel of fortune

Psychiatric crisis service
Information stand

Lebenshilfe Bayern Mitte
Buttons to make yourself (DIY) and free souvenir photos with the photo box

Neurodiversity
Information on AD(H)S, hands-on simulation "Sensory Overload" and "Diversity Neuro Divergence"

Ingolstadt Education Centre
Offers on the topic of autism

PingPongParkinson
The sporty self-help programme with table tennis table

Sarcoidosis self-help group
Information stand

SHG Stuttering
Counselling services

SimbaKids GmbH
Professional school, academic study and individual counselling with heart, competence and passion

SPGI (Ingolstadt Mental Health Counselling Network)

Student Counselling of THI and KU
Counselling for students with disabilities and chronic illnesses

St. Vinzenz
Motion composer who transforms movement into music

Diving with a handicap
Find Nemo and his friends having fun and playing at the inclusion divers' stand

Association of laryngectomees and head and neck tumour patients e.V.

IN:klusion association

Process pilots

Wirbelwind e.V.
Specialist counselling centre for sexualised violence in Region 10: Counselling, prevention and psychosocial process support

Listening bench