Campus life
As students and employees, you spend many hours of your life on the TU Dresden campus. The university campus is also an important place for guests of the university, local residents and visitors from near and far. We want to create a campus that you enjoy spending time on because you feel comfortable there and it offers you a variety of options - for studying and working, for leisure and recreation, for all generations and nations.
To achieve this, we are committed to transparency, appreciation, creativity, innovation, social interaction, accessibility, participation and encounters. We stand up for democratic values, promote personal initiative and align our activities as far as possible with the principle of sustainability. This also includes the idea of the TUD as a living lab, a real laboratory, which means that what is researched here is also implemented here, i.e. ideas are tested in reality.
Only a university that acts according to its own principles can fulfill its role as an actor for and in society.
This page provides an overview of campus activities in which everyone can take part and which are designed to make your time on campus more enjoyable:
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Experience Campus
There is a lot to experience on the TU Dresden campus! You can get active almost every day, visit the Botanical Garden or browse through the TU Dresden art collections. The calendar of events also provides an overview of all TU Dresden events.
Feel-good places on campus
Whether it's cafés, sports facilities or the pond in the courtyard: find your place of well-being on campus. With the "Room of Silence", TU Dresden offers everyone on campus a place of retreat to pause, recharge their batteries, meditate or pray. A selection of other possible places can be found on this page.
Student clubs
Dresden is considered the unofficial "capital of student clubs". There are 13 of them here. There are also student clubs in Tharandt, Zittau and Görlitz. Always wanted: Helpers! The Vereinigung Dresdner Studentenclubs e.V. (VDSC) brings together all of Dresden's clubs.
Campus buildings and their history
The majority of the university buildings bear the names of personalities from the university's history. The tradition of naming patronage goes back to the 1920s. Find out more about the buildings on a guided tour.
Participation
University Forum
University forums on various topics are held at irregular intervals, where all TUD members are invited to share and discuss perspectives.
TUD Lectures+
The podcast event series TUD Lectures+ creates discussion spaces at thematically selected locations in Dresden where social issues can be discussed in a scientifically sound manner. With the help of experts, the topics are presented in an understandable way and illuminated from different perspectives. Both TUD members and external participants can enter into an exchange with the experts.
University groups
TUD students and employees alike can volunteer in the university groups. The wide range has something for everyone: political and trade union interests are addressed as well as technical, social, societal or cultural interests.
As Unit Campus Life, we work closely with these artistic university groups:
Thea Maass Folklore Dance Ensemble
University Orchestra
University Choir
The stage
Kino im Kasten
Big Band
Big Band Therapy
Campus radio
Children's and youth dance studio at TU Dresden
Information on other university groups can be found at the Student Council.
Sustainable Campus
TU Dresden's Green Office informs, supports and networks university members in the field of ecological sustainability. Interested parties can visit the Green Office to find out more about sustainability at TU Dresden, contribute their wishes and ideas and network with other stakeholders in the field.
The Green Office is the latest addition to TU Dresden's long-standing commitment to environmental protection.
The Green Office also works together with the student initiative tuuwi.
Culture of interpersonal interaction
The Unit Campus Life is responsible for the university's interpersonal projects. One particular question in this area is: How should we convey recognition - e.g. on anniversaries, farewells, for special merits and to certain professional groups? Several working groups are currently working on this.
Results so far:
Guidance on dealing with death and grief
Results so far:
Guidance on dealing with death and grief (TUD intranet)