+++Ukrainian and Russian translation +++ Below is an overview of useful information for all refugees from Ukraine. Whether you are a refugee or helping refugees from Ukraine get settled in Germany, you will find comprehensive information about the following issues: Important legal foundations, Guidelines regarding entitlement to social benefits and Admission requirements at German universities.While […]
Dear queer, trans* and intersex students, The Queer Department of the TU Berlin invites all queer, trans* and intersex students to a Queer Beer June 22, 2022, starting at 6 p.m at Cafè Shila (behind the mathematics building). What is a Queer Beer? The Queer Beer is an opportunity for you to meet other queer, […]
Dear Fellow Students, We welcome you to our new newsletter from the AStA TU Social and BaföG Advising for the 2022 summer semester. We offer solidarity-based consulting that takes your side in all questions relating to financing your studies. Our latest newsletter, which is sent out at the beginning of each semester, provides all relevant news and […]
On 28.09.2020 the Berlin Senate passed the long-discussed “Gesetz zur Abmilderung der Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie im Bereich des Hochschulrechts”. Here we have compiled more detailed information about this. This article focuses on the (expected) impact on your BAföG or the “Leistungsnachweis” after the 4th Bachelor’s semester. As AStA, we find it frustrating that for months […]
Yesterday on September 17, 2020, the Berlin University Act was amended and the “individual standard period of study” (“Förderungshöchstdauer”) was extended by one semester. That means you will get BAföG one semester longer, regardless of whether you are already in a “funding over the maximum funding period” (“Förderungs über die Förderungshöchstdauer hinaus”). The only important […]
Due to the Corona- Pandemic, the university administration is only working at minimum capacity. If you are in your 4th Semester and you don’t have the performance record ( Leistungsnachweis), you are going to ask yourself, how to get it. On the 17th of April The Federal Ministry for education and research made a publication […]
The technical fund from the Studierendenwerk can be applied since the 14.05. The motto is “first come, first served”, students can apply between 200 – 500 €, as long as the money lasts! We do not comment on this and just provide you the link. https://www.stw.berlin/unternehmen/themen/antrag-technikfonds.html Your social counselling
The AStA Wuppertal in corporation with the Tacheles Association have published a model proposal for Hartz 4 as a loan (§27 SGB II Abs 3 Satz 1) for students. The money is supposed to be applied for quickly. And , quote Tacheles : the repayment at the end of your studies should be “inequitable”, so […]
