Designing formats together

Every year, around 3,000 students visit TU Dresden on 85 campus tours as part of Expedition Campus. In addition to a lecture on study information, our class format includes a campus tour with our student team and, as a highlight, a visit to your lecture/laboratory or workshop. Expedition Campus thus offers a platform for the degree programs and science at TU Dresden as part of a class offer for study orientation that is widely used throughout Germany.

We are happy to include further offers in the program, our student team will then ask you for specific dates. As a rule, Expedition Campus takes place in the mornings, with a higher number of requests coming in before the Saxon summer vacations.

Contact person: Nadja Bauer.

In the Early Studies program, particularly high-performing pupils from grade 9 who are interested in studying have the opportunity to take part in selected regular courses at TU Dresden.
If this is possible on the part of the lecturers, early students can take part in regular examinations if they wish and receive a certificate of achievement if they pass, which can be recognized in a later course of study at TU Dresden.

You can find more information about early studies here.

Would you like to open your course for early study?

Twice a year (for the summer semester around mid-January, for the winter semester around the end of July), the School Contact Office asks the respective faculty contact persons about the courses.

Which courses are suitable for early studies?

We recommend courses from the 1st - 3rd semester; they should be understandable without prior knowledge from other courses. Ideally, the course should whet your appetite for the degree program and the topic should be easily accessible. It is possible to require participation in another course in earlier semesters.

Contact the team: Early Studies.

TU Dresden's mentoring programs connect pupils with students to make study orientation a direct experience. In tandems or small groups, our students provide personal insights into their everyday life as students, answer questions about choosing a course, organization and access and accompany their mentees to lectures, seminars or laboratory internships. This creates a protected space in which students can easily ask any questions they may have. The meetings are individually coordinated and can take place in person or digitally.

At Studienbrücke, we support pupils from year 9 onwards and prospective students in getting to know the university and their desired subject. Connect to Talent is aimed at young people from year 7 and up to three years after leaving school and encourages them in particular to try out study and career paths that are atypical for their gender. Both programs combine information with personal encounters and thus create a valuable bridge between school and university.

Contact person: Stefanie Schroeder

Since 2020, the school contact point has been organizing the online lecture series MINTdigital together with the MINT-EC school network. Every year in March and November, four exciting scientific lectures are offered under one main topic for interested pupils from year 10 onwards. In addition, there is a study orientation session with the Central Student Information and Counseling Service and students from suitable degree programs. The format places particular emphasis on interactivity and exchange; participants also complete an accompanying task.

Around 30 to 100 motivated pupils take part in each series.

An archive of past MINTdigital series and insights into the variety of topics can be found here.

Two series are offered annually by the school contact point as part of the basic capacities. Planning begins in the previous year. For additional lecture series with your proposed topic, we will be happy to prepare an individual cost calculation.

Contact person: Anne Bruder

With a Science Camp (partly in cooperation with the MINT-EC school network), you offer your Faculty of Mathematics, your Institute or your institution the opportunity to come into particularly intensive contact with committed students from all over Germany and to make TU Dresden a lively science location. The four-day camp will focus on practical workshops and research-based work, which will give the approx. 20 participants from grade 10 onwards their own insights into their research fields.

Please contact us for the joint planning of a science camp.

Contact person: Anne Bruder.

The "Schau Rein!" ("Look inside!") campaign week is Saxony's largest career guidance initiative and takes place every spring. TU Dresden supports the initiative with a wide range of workshops and laboratory tours. The aim is for prospective students to experience study professions and occupational fields authentically and practically and to get to know TUD as a study institution.
The School Contact Office coordinates TU Dresden's participation, advises interested faculties on suitable formats and presents all offers bundled on a separate website.

How can I submit an offer to Schau Rein!

• Please publish your offers directly on the website of SCHAU REIN! Saxony website. You must register for this.
• Please then send the link with your offer to so that it can be published on the TUD website

Timing:

• Autumn of the previous year: Opening of the platform for companies to enter their offer for SCHAU REIN! This is possible annually from September and should be completed by mid-November.
• January: Booking start for schoolgirls
• Mid-March: SCHAU REIN! week

Contact:

If you have any questions about Schau Rein! please contact Nadja Bauer.

Girls' and Boys' Day is a day of action on which students can get to know professions and degree programs that are traditionally atypical for their gender. The aim is to break down role stereotypes and promote career choices free of gender stereotypes. Girls' and Boys' Day takes place every year in April.

The TUD participates every year in the form of various workshops and a modular program.

Participation opportunities in the TUD program:

1. offering an individual workshop

We are looking for workshops (MINT for female students and GSW for male students)
Duration: at least 3 hours
Time slot: The time of the offer is freely selectable. The morning may be more attractive, as the afternoon is often already planned for the students and the motivation to participate in an offer that takes place in addition to lessons may not be as great. Many schools oblige their students to participate.
Group size: freely selectable
Age: freely selectable from grade 5 onwards
Registration deadline: self-selectable until max. the day before the day of the event

The respective offers must be posted independently on the Germany-wide platform. The earlier the offer is published, the higher the probability that it will be fully booked.
Girls-day.de

Boys-day.de

We then ask you to send the link to .
The offers will then be published collectively on the TUD website.
http://www.tu-dresden.de/girlsday
http://www.tu-dresden.de/boysday

2. participation in the modular offer: "A day at the TUD" as part of the Connect to Talent project
A modular offer takes place under the theme "One day at the TUD". Shorter workshops can be integrated here. Please send your offer to Sylvi Bianchin by the end of February at the latest. You do not have to upload your workshop to the Girls' Day / Boys' Day website, this is done centrally by TUD.

Structure of the offer:

• Kick-off event 9 - 9:45 a.m. in a lecture hall on the main campus of the TUD
• various individual workshops of faculties and Institutes approx. 2 hours incl. paths
• Jointly organized lunch break with catering
• student campus tour/ workshops/ meet a student

Exemplary procedure of "One day at the TUD"

We are looking for workshops (MINT for female students and GSW for male students)
Duration: 2 h
Time slot: from 10 a.m. (note routes from the kick-off event)
Group size: freely selectable
Age: Grades 5-7 or from grade 8
Registration deadline: Offer will be posted centrally

General information

• When designing the activities, please ensure that the titles are exciting and the descriptions inspiring - please keep the target group of young women / men in mind and, if possible, make reference to their living environment.
• If image, video or sound recordings are to be made, the permission of all legal guardians must be obtained in writing in advance and documented. For the format "A day at university", the SKS team will obtain the necessary permissions; the template on the B and G'Day page is NOT sufficient for data protection reasons! You can find a TUD template in the material pool.
• Make sure that the age range of the participants in your format is consistent
• Participants are unaccompanied!
• The participants are insured during the visit if the offer is registered in the Germany-wide Girls' and Boys' Day platform and the participant management is carried out via this platform. This also applies to the TUD-wide offer "A day at the university".

Contact person:

Dr. Sylvi Bianchin
Unit Diversity Management