This page provides up-to-date information about the coronavirus outbreak as well as changes coming into effect and measures being taken.

From Monday, 18.01.2021, FFP2 masks will be mandatory for local transport and retail throughout Bavaria. According to official guidelines, this also affects our canteens!

Please follow the new guidelines and wear an FFP2 mask when entering our canteens.

Find fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on BAföG & student financing, ac­com­mo­da­tion and Social Counselling and Legal Adivce dur­ing the coro­n­avirus pan­demic below.

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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has provided more funds to help students who can demonstrate an acute financial need caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Eligible students can receive financial aid under the Ministry’s interim financial aid (Überbrückungshilfe) programme for the months of November 2020 to March 2021. Award decisions will be made by the competent local Studentenwerk institutions.

For further information click here

As of 2 No­vem­ber 2020, our can­teens and cafe­te­rias will only be al­lowed to offer take-away meals.

This is be­cause the Bavar­ian reg­u­la­tion on in­fec­tion pre­ven­tion mea­sures no. 8 (8. Bay­If­SMV) dated Fri­day, 30 Oc­to­ber 2020 stip­u­lates that the only can­teens that are al­lowed to open are “staff can­teens that are not open to the pub­lic”. Ac­cord­ing to the Bavar­ian State Min­istry of Pub­lic Health and Care Ser­vices, the can­teens and cafe­te­rias op­er­ated by Stu­den­ten­werk in­sti­tu­tions do not fall into this cat­e­gory.

See below for the new rules that will be in place at our can­teens and cafe­te­rias dur­ing the “lock­down light”:

• Our can­teens and cafe­te­rias are still open. How­ever, we can only offer take-away meals.
• You will not need to pre-order your take­away.
• We will charge you €0.50 for take-away food con­tain­ers.
• There will be no cut­lery avail­able.
• Our men­saV­i­tal meals will be served with­out drinks.
• As of 2 No­vem­ber 2020, the can­teen at Stu­den­ten­haus and the Men­sate­ria on Cam­pus Hub­land Nord will be open Mon­day to Thurs­day from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Fri­days from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• You will no longer need to reg­is­ter as a guest.
• Un­for­tu­nately, the can­teen and cafe­te­ria in Schwe­in­furt as well as the cafe­te­rias FHWS Münzs­traße, FHWS Rönt­gen­ring and FHWS Sander­hein­rich­sleit­en­weg in Würzburg will be closed until fur­ther no­tice.
• Our can­teens and cafe­te­rias are open to every­one. Since we will only be of­fer­ing take-away meals, we can also ac­cept guests that are not stu­dents or staff mem­bers of the higher ed­u­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions or the Stu­den­ten­werk Würzburg.

We look forward to welcoming you soon as a tenant in one of our student residences. As you will be aware, our daily lives are being affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This letter provides you with important information. Please read it carefully and follow the rules listed below in order to protect yourself and others.

Exceptional rules expire on 30.09.2020 in Bamberg.

Since many students had the problem that their semester ticket public transport passes had expired and it was not possible for them to renew them (i.e. have the new expiry date printed on them), we had agreed on special arrangements with the public transport providers in the region.

The goodwill arrangements in Würzburg and Schweinfurt have already expired in June / July.
Now the exceptional rules in Bamberg also expires on 30.09.2020.

That means: the normal rules for the semester ticket apply again at all locations. The only document that will be accepted as a ticket on public transport is your renewed student ID card.

The bridging aid for students who are demonstrably in a financial or economic emergency situation owing to the corona pandemic will be extended. Affected students can also apply for the non-repayable grant of the bridging aid in September.

The official press release by the BMBF on the extension of the bridging aid can be found here (Press release only in german)

All further information on the bridging assistance can be found here

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is helping students who are demonstrably in a financial or economic emergency situation owing to the corona pandemic with allowances totalling 100 million euros.

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You need to do the laundry, but you have no money on your chip card?

Here is where you can find chip card load locations that you can access in the current situation:

• Würzburg:You can access the load location in the foyer of Burse in the Studentenhaus building Monday to Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
• Bamberg: You can use the load location in the "Weberei 5" (ERBA) building. You can open the main entrance to the foyer Monday to Friday between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. with your Service Card.
• Aschaffenburg: A staff member of the International Office will unlock the door of building 20 every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. so that you can access the load location there (to get to the load location, use the door facing building 40 and the lawn; click here for a map). Please arrive on time. The door will be locked again as soon as the last student in the queue has left the building. Please keep a distance of at least 1.5 meters from the other students in the queue! Please be aware that you must use your EC card to load money onto your card. If you do not have an EC card, you must have the exact amount that you want to load onto your card. We cannot provide change.
• Schweinfurt: You can access the load location in the foyer of the canteen (door between building 7 and building 8) on Wednesdays between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

In Aschaffenburg and Bamberg, you will find validation terminals near the load locations. In Schweinfurt and Würzburg, you will not need to validate your card in order to be able to load money onto it.

You will not have to validate your chip card in order to be able to use the washing machines!

If you notice that one of your fellow tenants needs to load money onto his/her card, help him/her out with your card so that he/she can avoid going to a load location.

Last updated: 16 March 2020

Due to the current situation and after a state of emergency has been declared in Bavaria, the following changes will take effect at the Studentenwerk Würzburg:

Canteens and cafeterias:

All canteens and cafeterias in Aschaffenburg, Bamberg, Schweinfurt (as of 16 March 2020) and Würzburg will be closed as of Tuesday, 17 March 2020 and until further notice.

Counselling services

Until further notice, the Studentenwerk Würzburg will no longer offer face-to-face counselling services. Counselling will only be available over the phone and per email. This applies to social, legal and psychotherapeutic counselling, counselling in the area of accommodation, financial counselling, the info point, the chip card office and the main cash desk.

You can contact the BAföG Office per email at wuerzburg(at)bafoeg-bayern(dot)de. Your contacts there can be reached over the phone.

You can also contact the teams at our social, legal and psychotherapeutic counselling services over the phone and per email. Their contact details and office hours can be found on the respective pages on our website.
 

We apologise for any inconvenience caused. We will keep you up-to-date on developments via our website and social media channels.

Take care of your health!

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Kellerperle will be closed until further notice.

On 10 March 2020, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts decided that all universities in Bavaria should stop courses immediately and until further notice. There are new rules in place for exams, too.

For more information, go to the web pages of your university.

University of Würzburg
University of Bam­berg

On 10 March, the Bavarian State Government decided that the start date of the lecture period of the 2020 summer semester at universities of applied sciences will be postponed to 20 April 2020 in order to prevent coronavirus from spreading further (cf. https://www.stmwk.bayern.de/pressemitteilung/11869/nr-047-vom-10-03-2020.html).

For more information, go to the web pages of your university of applied sciences.

FHWS
TH Aschaffenburg