Profile + Values

What is important to us

Our prime concern is to successfully educate our students. It is through interaction with them that we shape HKB. High calibre of students, not high quantity, is our priority. We want students who, through their experimentation and gained skills, and through their successes and failures, will become the most perceptive, creative personalities.

Setting the course

The HKB accepts the challenges of the future. A vision, six development goals and associated implementation measures outline the coordinate system in which our university intends to develop over the next five years.
 
The development of the university in 2025 must be understood as a dynamic and open process, because in the face of an ever-accelerating world we must continue to be able to absorb external impulses and adapt our teaching and research content and structures for the benefit of our students. Thus, the development goals take on the role of centres of gravity in terms of content in order to initiate processes of change at their core. This is done with the intention of being able to offer the students of the HKB a contemporary design or artistic education under constantly changing conditions.

Code of Conduct

The HKB brings together people with different identities and of various backgrounds. While this diversity is enriching, it also harbours the potential for conflict when dealing with one another. This guideline is intended to support both staff and students in avoiding, recognizing and naming intolerable behaviour and actively taking action against it.

The academy is governed by the Director, who presides over the Directorate and the academy's Governing Body. This consists of the Heads of the various Divisions and the responsible persons for the Y Institute as well as research and administration. The teachers are also represented in the Governing Body. This is structured into various commissions and work groups addressing issues such as the development of quality, communication, research or internal further education. The HKB is supported by an Advisory Board of personalities from politics, culture and the economy, which pursues the development of the academy and links it to its environment.

The HKB aims to provide excellent conditions for students and employees. To ensure sustainable high quality work, we work to create equal opportunities. Our goal is not merely to accept more men into the degree programme Fine Arts and more women into Jazz. We also regard measures to facilitate the combination of studies, paid work and family life as an integral part of providing equal opportunities, as well as the inclusion of gender-oriented perspectives into teaching and research. Together with students, employees and members of the governing board, we address questions such as the following:

• A leadership position is advertised. No women have applied. 
• Part-time study: is this possible at HKB?
• What does gender competence mean?
• How does motherhood/pregnancy leave work? 
• We need more men in our degree programme.
• I would like to integrate the gender dimension into my teaching more.
• How can I avoid gender-specific inequality in the evaluation of pieces of work?
• A teacher is becoming too intimate. What can I do?

The equality officer is responsible for the pursuit of equal opportunities for men and women at the HKB. According to the equality regulations and together with the responsible persons, she develops measures to promote equality that are appropriate to the various different departments and degree programmes.

Who is actually disabled? AM I, or have I been MADE disabled? Attitudes, policies and physical barriers prevent people with disabilities from taking part in social activities on an equal basis with others.

In 2014 Switzerland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The political debate has since focused on the participation and inclusion of all persons with disabilities.

HKB was awarded the «Kultur inklusiv» label in April 2016. Inclusiveness is an integral part of HKB life. Assuming the usual admission or employment criteria, no student or staff member shall be excluded owing to any form of impairment or chronic illness.

Die Qualitätsbeauftragte und die Arbeitsgruppe Qualität (AGQ) befassen sich mit der Methode oder Systematik, wie Qualität an der HKB gemessen, beurteilt und letztlich gefördert werden soll. Die Indikatoren und Ergebnisse zur Qualität von Lehre, Forschung und Dienstleistung sind einer von vielen Wegen, nach innen und aussen aufzuzeigen, worin die Stärken liegen und in welchen Bereichen Verbesserungen erforderlich sind. Dabei ist die Evaluation der Lehre ein wichtiges Kernelement. 

In diesem kontinuierlichen Entwicklungsprozess orientiert sich die BFH/HKB am  Organisationsentwicklungsmodell der European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM).

Students at HKB requiring the support of the scholarship fund are asked to refer to the site Study at HKB.

Supporting the HKB scholarship fund

Donations for the benefit of the scholarship fund can be made at the diverse HKB events such as concerts, theatre performances, exhibitions, presentations, readings, etc. We are also happy to receive direct payments into the bank account of the HKB scholarship fund.

Scholarship fund contributions of up to CHF100 can be done via TWINT. Each sub-fund has a dedicated QR code – please scan the relevant code for the specific sub-fund that you wish to support.

In regards to deposits made via TWINT, please note the following:

• TWINT deposits are anonymous (i.e. a name is not attached). Consequently, no confirmation of the donation can be issued (making this option suitable for smaller amounts).
• If you wish to transfer an amount larger than CHF 100 and/or receive a confirmation of the donation made, we kindly request that you use the bank details indicated below. 

Bank: Berner Kantonalbank AG, 3011 Bern
IBAN: CH73 0079 0020 9186 9843 7
In favour of: Berner Fachhochschule, Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern

Please indicate to which specific fund you wish to allocate your donation:

• Music | Theater
• Design and Fine Arts | Conservation and Restoration | Contemporary Arts Practice
• Literature.

For any questions please contact verwaltung@hkb.bfh.ch.