Daycare Center Wolkengarten
Information about the Facility
The daycare center Kita Wolkengarten is a network daycare center shared by the university, university clinic and Studierendenwerk. The organisation operating this facility is the Jugendhilfswerk Freiburg e.V. (youth aid association, JHW for short).
Daycare Service
Age: under the age of 3 (U3)
Places: 20 full-day places
Opening times: 7 a.m. unil 4:00 p.m.
Educational Principles
The Kita director will be happy to answer any questions about the pedagogical approach and the principles the Kita applies.
Rooms and Garden
For the children, the rooms in the Wolkengarten daycare center are an important place for daily life, laughter and learning, where they spend a large part of the day. Because children experience the world through their bodies and their senses, the equipment is based on the development and needs of the children. They are equipped with everything they need to explore their environment with curiosity, exercise their physical strength and develop their skills. The rooms are therefore designed in line with the Hamburg room design concept, which sees itself as a practical part of an early childhood education concept and emphasizes the importance of children’s self-education processes.
Movie
The Wolkengarten daycare center has published a film in which the daycare center is presented (german only).
Spot Assignment
The spots are primarily allocated to children of employees and doctoral students of the university of Freiburg. Students and other interested parents can be considered secondarily.
Costs
Please find the monthly parental contributions in the overview of costs.
Registration
To register your child in the Uni-Kita Wolkengarten, please complete the following two steps:
1. In order to enroll your child in any Kita in Freiburg you need to follow the central registration procedure by the city of Freiburg. This applies also to the Kitas of the university. The following website by the Office for children, youth and families of the Freiburg city administration will guide you through the registration procedure. A video explains how to register for a childcare place in Freiburg and how you can proceed in your search for a childcare place. The video is in German, but you can select subtitles in different languages, such as English or Spanish. On this website, you can access the registration form (German only) on which you can specify up to three daycare centers. Please enter the Uni-Kita Wolkengarten as one of your desired daycare centers. By sending the form, the director of the Uni-Kita Wolkengarten will be notified automatically.
The websites of the city of Freiburg as well as the form for the central registration are in German only. If this is inconvenient for you, we offer you the registration form in English.
2. In addition to registering your child through the city’s central registration system, your employment status with the Universität Freiburg is needed in order to allocate the daycare spots. As soon as the director of the Uni-Kita Wolkengarten receives the registration notification by the city, she will send you an email with the link to a form on your employment relationship with the Universität Freiburg.
Please note that we can only consider enrollment applications for which you completed the city registration and sent the form on your employment status.
Most of the free spots are allocated at the beginning of a new kindergarten year in September. In order to get a spot at this point, you need to be registered in the central registration system of the city of Freiburg by the end of February of the same year. If you need to start childcare at a time other than September, you also have to register with the central system and you should do so as soon as possible. In this case please be prepared for a longer waiting period, since there are only a few spots left to be awarded after September.