We spend most of the waking hours of our day at work or studying. How we work and study at the university, under what conditions and with what success, influences our well-being and thus our health and performance.

Fulda University of Applied Sciences strives for excellence in teaching and research. Health-sustaining and motivating working and studying conditions can support the achievement of this goal (HS Fulda Development Plan, 2016 - 2020).

Therefore, the GFH pursues the following goals and tasks:

• Designing framework conditions at the university with the involvement of students and employees in order to maintain and promote their health and well-being (oriented towards the setting approach).
• Establishing and expanding health-promoting working, studying and living conditions at our university
• Promoting and maintaining the health, well-being and performance of employees and students
• Sustainable consideration of health promotion and prevention in the working, learning and living environment "university
• Advancing the conceptual and institutional embedding of the topic of "health" in our university and its long-term implementation

The goals realised from 2009 - 2015 initially focused on initial and development-oriented activities, which include:

• Raising awareness of the topic of "health" among university members.
• Coordinating health-related activities
• Counselling with internal and external health competence at the university
• Initiation and impulse-giving function on questions and topics of health promotion

Targetuntil 2019

According to the HS Fulda Development Plan 2016 - 2020, strategic development goals for the long-term anchoring of the topic of "health" at Fulda University of Applied Sciences should include the following aspects:

• The further development of the GFH in the direction of institutionalisation in the sense of a company health management embedded in the organisation of the university, which also integrates the concerns of the students;
• Consideration of the cross-cutting issue of "health" in the various areas of work at the university;
• Embedding the cross-cutting issue of "health" in the QM process (Development Plan of HS Fulda, 2016 - 2020: 53)

This is linked to the following content-related starting points and goals:

• Favouring a resource-oriented approach to health promotion and supplementing and expanding the risk factor-oriented approach.
• A cross-status group and target group oriented approach
• An orientation towards the concepts of participation and empowerment
• Raising awareness of health issues among decision-makers at Fulda University of Applied Sciences (HS Fulda Development Plan, 2016 - 2020: 53).

Since its "foundation" in 2010, the HealthPromoting University of Applied Sciences Fulda (GFH) has contributed to a stronger consideration of prevention and health promotion in the working, studying and living conditions for students and employees at the university through numerous activities and impulses.

The planned new building of the refectory as well as the campus redesign were the reason to strive for the consideration of health-promoting framework conditions at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. Initially financed by funds from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the foundation stone was laid for today's GFH.

Encouraged by the first positive experiences in taking health aspects into account in everyday university life, the work of the GFH could be further advanced through funding from the health insurance company Techniker Krankenkasse and the university. In addition to many individual activities, the topic of health promotion was successfully anchored at Fulda University of Applied Sciences (see HS Development Plan 2010 - 2020). A milestone in this context was the inclusion of the topic of health promotion in the target agreements between Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts.

Despite many successes that are visible on campus and are also reflected in the university's structures, there is still a need for further action. Thus, important tasks for the future are the consistent attention to the topic of health promotion as a cross-sectional task as well as the sensitisation of all university members, especially also of managers, for health-relevant topics. The continuation of already initiated individual activities as well as their expansion and, above all, the goal of a steadily advancing anchoring of the GFH in the institutional structures of the university as well as in the awareness of the university community are central challenges for the future. The continuation of the cooperation with Techniker Krankenkasse and funding for another three years as well as the support of the university are helpful in this regard.

In order to successfully implement health promotion and prevention at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, the GFH works with internal and external cooperation partners.