DESY is a diverse and multinational workplace, hosting employees and guests from a wide range of backgrounds. We aim to make DESY and the Summer Student Programme a welcoming environment for all participants, and would therefore ask that everybody complies with our code of conduct.

We ask you to treat your fellow participants as well as other people within the DESY workplace with consideration, respect and professionalism at all times. Harassment of any form (whether physical or mental/psychological) and exclusionary or offensive behaviour on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion will absolutely not be tolerated. Any occurrences of such can and should be promptly communicated to the programme organisers.

As the programme welcomes students from across the globe, we choose to adopt English as the official language of the DESY Summer Student Programme in which all lectures and events will be carried out. We urge participants to be cognisant of this and to communicate in English wherever possible in order to foster easy communication between all participants and avoid unnecessary language barriers.

In short: Be kind and considerate to your colleagues, and expect them to behave the same way towards you!