The summer semester will start on 1^st April, 2020, but there will be no courses at TU Dresden which students are expected to attend until 4^th May 2020. Please consult your faculty for information on e-learning formats that are offered in the meantime. In any case, please register in OPAL to obtain information on courses taking place digitally.

The current situation is an unprecedented challenge for all of us. What can be said is that the summer semester begins on 1^st April 2020 and ends on 30^th September 2020. At this point in time, however, no statement can be made as to how the pandemic will affect the continuation of studies and examinations at our university.

Information regarding E-Learning, thesis, new OPAL courses, examinations, the expected teaching schedule for the summer semester and alternative teaching formats, such as video lectures, online seminar and laboratory practicals, can be found here:

Information for lecturers (in German): Handlungsempfehlungen vom ZiLL zur Gestaltung und Einrichtung des Online-Lehrbetriebs.

OPAL is recommended for online teaching. OPAL offers various possibilities for the implementation of digital teaching and communication. In order for teaching to be organised via OPAL, it is necessary that teachers set up their course offers in the system and that every student registers themselves in the system and enrols on the courses.

TU Dresden is not the owner of the rights concerning the respective literature and  therefore cannot make any arrangements  in this respect. The Vice-Rector for Academic and International Affairs  forwarded the question to the SLUB and  received a first reply: The SLUB is monitoring current developments closely. Due to the current crisis, content providers are now temporarily extending the terms of use for digital materials of their own accord or converting analogue materials into digital ones. The SLUB supports and initiates this process by making targeted inquiries that are coordinated among the libraries, e.g. within the framework of TU9. The SLUB discusses internally, how to improve the overview of material that is already available. In any case, lecturers with specific requests are advised to contact the SLUB. The SLUB will do its best to find solutions.
An overview page of already available extended full texts and database offers has been published. Please also check the SLUB blog for current developments.

The ZIH is aware of the need for additional storage space, and they are currently working on providing additional capacity within the limits of the ZIH.  

The question of licenses for further services is already being addressed in cooperation with ZiLL, Dezernat 6 and ZIH.

Until further notice, no more public events will take place on the campuses of TU Dresden. This includes sports activities, rehearsals and events of artistic groups etc.

Das Universitätssportzentrum der TU Dresden bietet ab 01. April kostenfreie Online-Sportkurse an:  über 50 Kurse pro Woche, von Bridge bis Yoga, für Studenten*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen der TU Dresden. Aufgrund der Corona-Krise halten aber die TU Dresden und somit auch das USZ mit seinen Sportstätten die Pforten bis mindestens 04. Mai geschlossen. Dennoch möchte das USZ auch in schwierigen Zeiten für alle Studierenden, Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen da sein und allen das Sporttreiben zu Hause ermöglichen. 

Bitte nutzen Sie:

1.       ein vielfältiges kostenfreies Online-Sportprogramm für 4 Wochen
          mit über 50 Online-Live-Kursen,

2.       sowie die „Empfehlungen der Woche“ als Download stets veröffentlicht
          in den News.

Welche Kurse wann stattfinden sowie die „Empfehlungen der Woche“, können ab dem  1.4.2020 auf unserer Homepage sehen. Die Einschreibung startet am 2. April 2020, 14.00 Uhr.

On this website, primarily general information on studying and teaching during the coronavirus pandemic is provided. Degree programme or subject-specific information is provided on the respective pages of the departments, faculties or central units. Below, we will provide links to this specific information as soon as possible.

School of Science

• Faculty of Biology
• Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry
• Faculty of Mathematics
• Faculty of Physics
• Faculty of Psychology

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Arts, Humanities an Social Science
• Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies

School of Engineering Sciences

• Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Fakultät Informatik
• Fakultät Maschinenwesen

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Faculty of Architecture
• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Environmental Sciences
• Friedrich List - Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
• Faculty of Business and Economics

School of Medicine

• Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus (zugangsbeschränkt)

Centre for Teacher Education

Centre for Teacher Education, Formal and Professional Education Research (ZLSB)

Will I be enrolled in the Master's programme and, if applicable, in the Bachelor's programme if I pay my semester fee?

Temporarily enrolled students who are unable to take a final exam scheduled for winter semester 2019/20 due to the corona pandemic must inform the Admissions Office or the International Office by email via the SCS. Please also include the information about the cancellation of the exam! The deadline will then be extended in each case and re-registration for the summer semester 2020 will be possible. Those concerned will be contacted by email.

Doctoral students enrolled for a limited period until 31^st March 2020 and who are unable to submit an approved renewal application in time due to the corona pandemic must inform the Admissions Office or the International Office via the SCS. The submission deadline will then be extended in each case and re-registration for the summer semester 2020 will be possible. Those concerned will be contacted by email.

It is not necessary to apply for a semester's leave of absence due to the corona crisis. If your studies are impaired, which is unfortunately to be expected at present, § 20 para. 5 of the Act on the Autonomy of Institutions of Higher Education in the Free State of Saxony in conjunction with § 10 paragraph 2 of TU Dresden's Enrolment Regulations will take effect. The current situation should not put any student at a disadvantage.

If you have concrete enquiries or problems regarding the organisation of your studies, please contact the Admissions Office or the International Office. The responsible staff will work with you to find a suitable solution for the successful continuation of your studies. The SCS will receive your enquiries by email and forward them to the Admissions Office or the International Office. Please note that your enquiries cannot be answered promptly during the period of closure of the university

Courses which students are expected to attend will not be taking place at TU Dresden at the moment. Nevertheless, please register for your courses via the learning platform OPAL as soon as possible so that you can take advantage of your department's e-learning offers.

Please check whether enrolment via selma is necessary for your degree programme. You will find an overview of the respective programmes on the website "Examination and course management in selma". If you have any further enquiries about enrolment in selma, please contact your Academic Affairs Office or the SCS .

Please also check the main page for up-to-date central information for the entire university and possible changes regarding the beginning of courses that students are expected to attend.

Ab dem 31.03.2020 können Sie sich für die Sprachkurse der TU Dresden über diesen Link wie gewohnt einschreiben. Die Sprachkurse werden ab dem 14. April 2020 bis auf Weiteres zunächst als Online Angebot durchgeführt. 

If you have any questions regarding upcoming exams (including the submission of final theses), please contact the Examination Office of your department directly. Please use the overview of all Examination Offices. Students in Teacher Training please contact the ZLSB directly.

Due to the current situation, examinations may be conducted electronically. An overview of suitable tools, some of which are already available, can be found on the ZILL (Zentrum für interdisziplinäres Lehren und Lernen) website.

The digital signature is unproblematic. Notifications can be made available in SELMA better than by email. However, the missing fiction of delivery in the case of electronic delivery is problematic in regard to the Administrative Procedure Act.  For this reason, particularly critical notifications (ENB) should be deferred.

Deadlines and appointment schedules within the examination regulations, which impose obligations on the Examination Office from a regulatory point of view, are typically weekly deadlines for certain decisions, the issuing of documents or the preparation of reports. If currently these deadlines cannot be met for obvious reasons, the parties concerned must  accept this for the time being. TUD is obliged organisationally, to do what can reasonably be expected in order to issue (mandatory) necessary documents. If this is not feasible, it should be considered whether other appropriate transitional evidence and declarations can be issued. With regard to a "provisional certificate", it still needs to be clarified what exactly this means. Certainly there will be no harm in notifying students informally by a suitable party at TUD that  they have  passed their studies as well as with what level of success and thus have completed their degree programme. If necessary, in individual cases the issuing of a proper certificate must be ensured.

Web meetings can be used. Details must be clarified with the examiners. The Examination Committee should be appropriately involved in the decision. In order to create transparency within the university, the meeting must be held publicly. The announcement of the defences, for example, can be made on the TUD website, whose address could be made known via the general distribution list. The details are decided upon in D7. TUD's Data Protection Officer (DSB) has given the following advice on this in previous inquiries: For reasons of data protection, no electronic recording should be made, but rather a conventional record should be kept.  The person to be examined must be informed about this before the examination begins. Furthermore, according to the Data Protection Officer, it must be ensured that the connection is encrypted. The requirements of the examination procedure and the examination regulations must also be complied with, despite the fact that the examination is conducted by video conference. The same applies to PhD proceedings. Aspects to be considered are public/non-public aspects of examinations, consultation on examination results with a closed circle of participants or proper appointment and participation of examiners and observers. These matters can also be resolved by video conferencing. From a technical point of view, the video conference must run smoothly; it must be ensured that the person connected via video conference can hear the examination discussions well, is clearly audible and cannot be distracted, etc. It must also be ensured as well as possible that the person to be examined has no opportunity for deceit throughout their examination performance. It must furthermore be ensured that the examiners are able to evaluate the examination performance completely and directly and thus independently.

Yes.

An encryption certificate is not necessary for the secure electronic transmission of a thesis. Alternatives: Password encrypted PDF or ZIP archives. Password transmission via secure channel (telephone, SMS, encrypted messenger). The transfer of a cloudstore link should be checked. If the industry partner requests a certificate (or the encryption with it), they can certainly provide it (e.g. commercial S/MIME certificate; Class 3 certificates cost less than 100 EUR per year). Possibly the transmission by a messenger (of the industry partner) can also be considered.

 

The Department for Citizenship and Foreign Residents Affairs at Theaterstraße 11-15 and the Dresden Welcome Center at Schweriner Straße 1, 01067 Dresden, will be closed from Wednesday, 18^th March 2020 until Friday, 17^th April 2020. All appointments already arranged within this closing time will be cancelled. New appointments will not be allocated until further notice. The Department for Citizenship and Foreign Residents Affairs has issued a general decree extending residence permits, acquiescence certificates (suspension of deportation; German: Duldung) and other certificates under aliens law which are due to expire. For urgent, individual cases which are not covered by the aforementioned general decree, the Department for Citizenship and Foreign Residents Affairs has set up a telephone hotline at +49 351 4886009. Cases that need special attention can be identified and forwarded immediately.

For international students, there are various support offers from the TU Dresden and student initiatives, even in the current situation:

• Consulting Services
• Kulturbüro des Akademischen Auslandsamtes
• https://www.facebook.com/erasmus.dresden/
• AEGEE Dresden
• Sprachcafé (student group TU Dresden), every friday, it starts 5 pm via Zoom
• Studying in Germany
• Facebook group "Home alone"

Bei Fragen zu einem geplanten Auslandsaufenthalt wenden Sie sich bitte per E-Mail an das Akademische Auslandsamt über servicecenter.studium@tu-dresden.de

Bitte wenden Sie sich per E-Mail an das Akademische Auslandsamt über das ServiceCenterStudium servicecenter.studium@tu-dresden.de

Zu Praktika im Ausland finden Sie Informationen auf der Seite des LEONARDO-Büro Sachsen.

Until further notice, there will be no excursions/study trips in the summer semester 2020. For further information, e.g. on alternative dates, please contact the responsible person at your department.

Current information on BAföG can be found on the website of the Studentenwerk Dresden (Student Union).

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research states on its website that there should be no disadvantages for BAföG because of Coronaa (in German only).

Current information on the closure of libraries can be found on the SLUB website.

All borrowed media are automatically renewed by SLUB until further notice. For the duration of the closing time, no new reminder and late book fees will be issued.

At the moment, TU Dresden’s  service and advisory facilities do not offer office hours in person. If you have any enquiries about studying, please contact the ServiceCenterStudies by telephone +49 351 463 42000 or by email. We will answer your questions or forward them to the staff in the relevant departments.

You can find up-to-date information on opening hours and closing times of the residence halls and cafeterias on the website of the Student Union (Studentenwerk Dresden).

At the Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL), digital learning and teaching skills are bundled. ZiLL has drawn up initial recommendations for the design and establishment of online courses. Here, you will also find information on the advisory services offered by ZiLL, the Centre for Continuing Education (ZfW) and the ZIH.

TU Dresden is not the owner of the rights concerning the respective literature and  therefore cannot make any arrangements  in this respect. The Vice-Rector for Academic and International Affairs  forwarded the question to the SLUB and  received a first reply: The SLUB is monitoring current developments closely. Due to the current crisis, content providers are now temporarily extending the terms of use for digital materials of their own accord or converting analogue materials into digital ones. The SLUB supports and initiates this process by making targeted inquiries that are coordinated among the libraries, e.g. within the framework of TU9. The SLUB discusses internally, how to improve the overview of material that is already available. In any case, lecturers with specific requests are advised to contact the SLUB. The SLUB will do its best to find solutions.
An overview page of already available extended full texts and database offers has been published. Please also check the SLUB blog for current developments.

The ZIH is aware of the need for additional storage space, and they are currently working on providing additional capacity within the limits of the ZIH.  

The question of licenses for further services is already being addressed in cooperation with ZiLL, Dezernat 6 and ZIH.