Categories: Beratungsangebote und Service, student-a-z
Index
Counselling services with a focus on mental health
- Student Services offers counselling services with a focus on mental health. They provide professional counselling on problems affecting students’ mental wellbeing such as difficulties with studying, completing a doctoral degree or examinations, problems with partners or parents, anxiety, psychosomatic disorders and other psychological problems. The drop-in session (offene Sprechstunde) is completely anonymous.
- The Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at FAU offers various online training courses through the ‘StudiCare’ programme, aimed at helping students cope with problems affecting their mental wellbeing such as social anxiety, online addiction and insomnia, as well as fear of examinations or procrastination.
- Numbers to call in case of emergency:
- In an acute crisis: Emergency services 112
- Mental health hotline: 0800 111 0 111 or 0800 111 0 222 (only from Germany)
Cultural and recreational programme
Cultural and other highlights in and around Erlangen and Nuremberg are listed here:
www.fau.eu/study/student-life/erlangen-nuremberg-region/
DAAD
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service). The DAAD closely cooperates with the International Offices of individual universities and promotes student mobility of both German students wanting to go abroad and foreign students coming to Germany.
Dean
The head of a faculty; he or she must be a professor of the faculty in question and is elected by his or her peers. The dean represents the faculty’s interests and is the head of the faculty’s administration, the Dean’s Office (Dekanat).
www.fau.eu/university/organisation-and-committees/committees-and-senior-officers/
Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship)
Since the summer semester 2011, students at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg can apply for an FAU Deutschlandstipendium. Funding amounts to 300 euros per month and is initially granted for two semesters which — provided that the funding conditions are still met — can be extended annually until the end of the standard duration of the degree programme. Half of the funding (150 euros) is provided by companies, foundations or private individuals with the second half being provided by the German Federal State.
The most important condition for receiving an FAU Deutschlandstipendium are the results achieved so far during your studies or school-leaving grades for newly enrolled students. This means: from the second semester of their degree programme onwards, applicants have to demonstrate at least good study achievements (2.00 or better).
Students who have just enrolled at FAU need very good school leaving exams (1.5 or better). Apart from these achievements, specific personal circumstances can also be taken into account. These include, for instance, stays abroad relevant to your studies, voluntary work at the University (or in politics or society) as well as special individual circumstances.
www.fau.eu/germany scholarship
Dies academicus
An academic holiday well established at many universities. At FAU, the dies academicus is the 4th of November. FAU was founded on this date in 1743. The dies academicus at FAU is a celebration of the University’s anniversary.
Diploma Supplement
You will receive a Diploma Supplement with a comprehensive official description of your degree programme with your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree certificate.
Doctoral degree (doctorate)
The German term ‘Promotion’ refers to the process of obtaining a doctorate in a specific subject. In Germany, ‘Promotion’ precedes ‘Habilitation,’ which is a required qualification for a professorship in many disciplines. A doctorate proves your ability for independent academic work and is based on a written thesis (dissertation) and an oral examination.
Enrolment
Enrolment as a student. For more information on enrolment procedures, please see: