SoSe18 AK Organizing an International Welcome

Vorstellung des AKs

Verantwortliche/r: Siddhu Chelluri (Siegen), Lina (Innsbruck, früher Siegen)

English version (German version below)

When an international student arrives in the country there are a lot of formalities and procedures to be done by them. But most of the student representatives (FSR, FSI, StV) are (german) native speakers and therefore don't have experiences with this things. This makes it difficult to organise an international welcome (such as Erstsemestereinführung, Orientierungswoche, Erstsemestrigentutorium...).

In the AK we want to discuss what is nessesary to tell the new students in such a welcome event (content, not form). One aim is to write a guideline/handout which shall contain all the important information regarding the first steps at the university and in the country. It contains the general information such as bank account, visa extension etc. Furthermore there is also a section in the handout where we discuss and list the things and procedures that differ from university to university (such as library card, how to find courses etc) so that each FSR/FSI/StV... can make their own handouts for their unique university regulations.

We will also have some discussion time where we can ask questions, share experiences and further ideas to improve it. We prepared it by taking the past experiences of the internaitonal students along with our own experiences and also suggestions from various people and resources.

To get a general overview we especially invite everyone who has experiences in this field and of course everyone who is interested in the topic.

The AK will be held in english.

German version

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Der AK wird auf englisch gehalten, das Protokoll bekommt eine deutsche Zusammenfassung.