We have followed the reports of Duante Wright´s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police department with sadness and rage. Once again police have managed to turn a racist stop into a racist murder against the black community of Minneapolis. The police couldn´t control their racist & murderous urges even in the midst of […]
Dear first semesters, dear (long-term) students,we hope you have survived the syllabus week well and wish you a good start into the new semester. We, the General Students’ Committee (AStA) are the Students Union of the TU Berlin. We try to represent your interests as best we can, also in times of the Corona Pandemic, […]
In the course of the recent easing of lockdown restrictions, initiatives such as #nichtnuronline called for a (partial) opening of the universities. The AStA has been contacted by individuals and initiatives and asked to support these and similar demands. However, supporting reopening initiatives while infections continue to rise and vaccines for students are nowhere in […]
For a year now, March 8th has been an official public holiday in Berlin as a feminist day of struggle. We celebrate that, but we don’t want to forget that feminism is also needed for the remaining 364 days. Every day FLINT * people (women, lesbians, inter, non-binary and trans people) are confronted with physical […]
On January 1, Melih Bulu who was nominated as a parliamentary candidate from AKP in 2015, was appointed as a trustee-rector by the president of Turkey, Erdoğan to one of the leading public universities, Boğaziçi University. We believe that it is an attack on freedom and autonomy of universities and one of the last practices […]
Since the presidential elections in August 2020, Belarusians have been demonstrating peacefully against the illegitimate President Lukashenko. With the beginning of the academic year in September, students also formed an important group in the protest against Lukashenko’s violence and electoral fraud. They are fighting for a democratic Belarus. In the face of violent repression by […]
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 […]
We added one more date in September!It’s the last date for this winter semester 20/21, so please register in time. The appointment will take place on 28.09.2020 (Monday) and will last approximately 2 hours. Please keep in mind: All suits MUST be started by 30.09.2020. So you will have less than 3 days after the […]
Hello, since today, the AStA has a new website! So what does this change for you: Nothing! Because all the content of the former site, you will find also here. If you see any errors, please mail them to us via this mailing address: webseite@asta.tu-berlin.de Note: Some english content is missing, but will be added […]
