The following measures are taken to safeguard the anonymity of the survey participants:
- Since the invitations are sent out exclusively by the higher education institutions themselves, the names and e-mail addresses of the survey participants remain with the higher education institutions and are not passed on to either the IHS or the BMWFW.
- Students who wish to be informed about the publication of the survey results are required to actively contact IHS independently of the survey. In this way, the e-mail addresses of such students cannot be linked with the questionnaire.
- The access codes for the survey are only supplied to the higher education institutions via the internet using an encryption process.
- IHS has contractually agreed to adhere to all relevant data protection provisions, in particular DSGVO ((EU) 2016/679), DSG and TKG 2003.
- The answers provided in the questionnaire are transmitted in encrypted form (https).
- The anonymity of the respondents is also safeguarded during analysis of the data as the IHS will not publish any data on groups fewer than 30 people.