The Student Support and Career Counseling Office (ZMSKK) is a unit that assists and follows students both during their studies and after graduation, by creating a database with information on students’ careers, achievements, and challenges during their integration into the job market. It also supports their accomplishments, advocates for the protection of professional rights through the AUA Association (Union of Architects, Urbanists, and Urban Planners), maintains connections with POLIS through the ALUMNI Association, and encourages a spirit of collaboration as a community, as well as support and philanthropy. The purpose of ZMSKK as a structure in itself is oriented towards maintaining continuous contact as well as providing multi-directional information. The information includes information on studies, various programs, career guidance or vocational guidance as well as individual or group counseling.

This office works closely with the leaders of the Student Association and the Alumni Association.

The main activities and tasks of the Office of Student Support and Career Counseling are:

• Informing students and ensuring full transparency on academic, educational and scientific issues and aspects, as well as their rights and duties;
• Orientation of students in education and during education for the choice of specific training fields and training opportunities offered by the university;
• Orientation and acquaintance of students with the labor market in general and the special opportunities of the moment for employment by mediating this process;
• To maintain individual contact with students even after graduation and their employment, continuously receiving their feedback;
• To conduct up-to-date studies of the labor market, identifies its demands, and makes this information available to students.
• Regulates and ensures the involvement of students in decision-making, in the processes and main activities related to teaching and other research and development activities as well as the services offered to them.

Diversity Officer

The role of a “Diversity Officer” aims to create and implement initiatives promoting equality, accessibility, and inclusiveness for all, with the values of equality as basic principles. The main goal is to develop comprehensive initiatives for all users of the POLIS institution.

His/her duties and responsibilities are as follows:

1. 1. The development and implementation of strategies, including the construction or updating of regulations, programs, and practices that promote equality and accessibility for the institution, to benefit from an accessible and equal environment for all students and academic staff.
   2. Continuous cooperation and coordination with faculties, departments, and other units to integrate the principles of equality in the curricula, as well as the creation of comprehensive educational practices. This includes monitoring and reporting on applied strategies and updating them, being constantly in compliance with regulations and their ongoing changes.
   3. Student engagement to support and promote diversity on the university campus, as well as to address challenges or problems that go against inclusive principles.
   4. Professional development of academic, administrative staff, and the student community to promote cultural awareness, and information about the needs of persons with different abilities, as well as to develop a study and professional environment that is based on the principles of respect and equality.
   5. Collection of data and assessments to analyze the progress of the implementation of comprehensive regulations and principles, as well as their continuous communication with all department heads.
   6. Involving communities between academic or cultural events, as well as creating partnerships with community organizations that support inclusive initiatives by integrating different groups of people with different abilities.

Compliance and advocacy with the relevant regulations in compatibility with the strategies and standards of the European Union, in order to have continuous development.

Any student who considers themselves in need of tailored support regarding a disability, health condition, or other circumstances may complete the following form,

“Student Support and Accessibility Questionnaire”

The Student Support and Career Counseling Office of POLIS University is already part of two projects: