I struggled heavily with unusual abbrevations, here an incomplet list:
IL: InstitutsLeitung, the organ composed of unit leaders who is the shared direction of GIUB
IR: InstitutsRat, the organ that takes final decisions on teaching, financial issues, composed of IL plus reps of the other corps (UMB, OMB)
UMB: Unterer MittelBau, the corps of research and teaching personnel who are not Dozenten (PhDs, postdocs, senior researchers)
OMB: Oberer Mittelbau, the Dozenten (very few people at GIUB
PG: Physical Geography
MessGeKom: MessgeräteKommission, organ that discuses field equipment
MAG: MitarbeitendenGespräch (yearly job appraisal interview)
ZD: Zentrale Dienste - the group of secretaries
BK: Betriebskredit, money that comes from the Uni for running costs
EK: Einrichtungskredit, money that profs get at their start
DK: Drittmittelkredit, any money from outside UniBe; most of this money is bound to projects but each unit has a "freie DK" where you put money that has no specific project attached, e.g. from mandates; only units have accounts, individual scientific researchers cannot have their owns
Personalpunkte: this is the internal currency to hire people, each person / position costs a certain number of points per month
40/60 model: the UniBern encourages sometimes overspending at the end of the year by offering to cover 40% of investments that bring our budget in the negative; we can apply for this to the faculty
HS, FS: HerbstSemester, FrühlingsSemester
FP: Forschungspraktikum - the teaching format to which the students subscribe if they start the Bsc thesis; most units do not actually hold a class even if it is scheduled;
Colloquium: the teaching format to which the students subscribe if they start the Msc thesis; most units use the format to run their seminar series and schedule their group meeting just after it
FIL: Förderung Innovative Lehre, a source of money for new teaching concepts, Uni-level
Anhang 1: the Excel-Table that contains the planned teaching offer over the next two years (4 semesters), which is added to the Studienplan (thus the name). The actual sheet that is circulated in the units is called "Leistungseinheiten-Geographie_xxxx"