For students

TH Wildau introduced a system developed in-house for contact tracing in case of a SARS-Cov2 infection: the "Web-App für contact tracing". 

All premises of TH Wildau will be successively equipped with QR codes.

The QR codes must be scanned with a mobile device before entering the premises. Those who do not have a mobile device or do not wish to use one can also maintain the data manually via the icampus.th-wildau.de/kontaktnachverfolgung (there is currently no English version of the web app available).website on any other device with Internet access before or after entering the premises.

Further information on the web app is available at: https://en.th-wildau.de/contact-tracing

As a general rule: In all other premises of the TH (corrodirs, foyers etc.), the wearing of a medical face mask (OP mask or FFP2 mask) is mandatory!

The principle applies that staff (members) should not be in the position of having to violate the distance rules in their offices or laboratories. In this sense, it is strongly recommended to use the possibilities of the home office to reduce the occupancy of the premises accordingly. If the distance rules cannot be complied with due to an urgent need for higher occupancy of the premises or the nature of the activities, compensation through additional protective measures must be examined in individual cases (e.g. application for Plexiglas panes).

Offices and laboratories

In offices and laboratories used by a clearly defined group of people, the wearing of nasal masks can be dispensed with, provided that the minimum distance between staff (members) of 1.5 m is maintained and regular ventilation is ensured.

Classroom (teaching) events

The mask requirement also applies to classroom events (courses and examinations).

Yes, the current guidelines on the obligation to wear a mask and the distance requirement are still valid for these groups of people.

The following rules apply to on-site teaching and classes:

• The SARS-CoV-2 Containment Ordinance prescribes the use of so-called medical face masks, e.g. OP masks or FFP2 masks.

• This means that medical face masks must be worn in all TH Wildau buildings from 23.1.2021, not including any stationary workplace, as hitherto the case.

• TH Wildau has an adequate stock of surgical masks. If students do not have a mask with the appropriate requirements, we will offer them an appropriate mask free of charge to enable their participation in examinations. The surgical masks are available at the gatehouse.

• 90-minute courses are scheduled every 2 hours: This means: The first course on a day starts at 8 am, the following courses start at 10 am, 12 am, etc.

• Rooms 14-B001 and 14-B002 have mechanical exhaust air systems, 14-A001 has mechanical supply and exhaust air. All seminar rooms in Halls 16 and 17 are mechanically ventilated. It is recommended that these rooms are preferably used during the planning stage. If ventilation is not automated, the room must be well ventilated after 45 minutes during a 90-minute course (at least 5 minutes).

• The rooms planned for face-to-face teaching events are prepared in such a way that the minimum distance between the seats is maintained and only the pre-defined maximum number of persons can occupy one of the marked seats at a time. In order to improve the traceability of contacts, students are advised to always use the same seat or to follow a fixed seating arrangement wherever possible.

• All students and teachers have to use the web app "THWi contact tracing" before entering the premises. For this purpose, all premises concerned have been equipped with QR codes. The QR codes must be scanned with a mobile device before entering the premises. Those who do not have a mobile device or do not want to use one can also maintain the data manually via the website https://icampus.th-wildau.de/kontaktnachverfolgung/ on any other device with internet access before or after entering the premises. Further information on the web app is available at: en.th-wildau.de/contact-tracing

Seating capacities are shown on this website: https://www.th-wildau.de/hochschule/hochschulverwaltung/organisation-und-controlling/nuetzliche-unterlagen/

Please follow the university's e-mail messages even more closely than usual and check your e-mail box (TH-Wildau address!) regularly. This is important to ensure that you always have access to all information.

You will receive e-mail messages about your courses primarily via the corresponding course on the e-learning platform Moodle. Therefore it is important that you are registered in the corresponding courses. This is usually done automatically, but not always (especially if you are not studying according to the regular study plan).

Therefore, we ask you to check whether you can find the corresponding courses on the e-learning platform for all courses listed in your timetable: https://elearning.th-wildau.de/login/

If this is not the case: Please write to your lecturer and ask him/her to enter you in the course as a user.

University events outside of teaching hours (e.g. rehearsals of the university orchestra, information events, etc.) are only possible to a limited extent until further notice and after approval by the Crisis Team.

This arrangement will be re-evaluated on an ongoing basis in light of current developments. An overview of all online events taking place during this time can be found in the event calendar on the website. 

In German, vaccinated means "geimpft", recovered means "genesen" and tested means "getestet". That is why in Germany, the 3G status or the 3G rule is currently being talked about everywhere when it comes to access to public facilities, gastronomy, hotels or similar in relation to the corona virus.

Of course, this makes no sense in English.

Nevertheless, the following applies: Only people who have either been vaccinated or have recovered or have been tested (negatively) and thus fulfil a status like this may participate in our on-site events. 

Yes, especially from §23 (Other educational and training institutions) of the Ordinance on Temporary Containment Measures due to the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and COVID-19 in the State of Brandenburg (SARS-CoV-2 Containment Ordinance - SARS-CoV-2-EindV) of 12 November 2021 the following regulations exist:

• As before, attendance at classroom events must be accompanied by a negative Corona test.
• Participants in onsite courses must provide evidence of a negative test on their first day of attendance each week.

• Our previous testing concept (valid until 14.11.2021) is no longer valid, i.e. no more self-tests including the personally signed negative certificate will be accepted.

• Instead, official test certificates from official (rapid) test centres are necessary from now on.

  Here is an overview of possible test stations:

  • LK Dahme-Spreewald: https://www.dahme-spreewald.info/sixcms/detail.php/70521
  • Berlin: https://www.berlin.de/corona/testzentren/
• The negative certificates are valid for72 h (3 days), so that a maximum of two tests are necessary if the course is held on different days between Monday and Saturday.
• Fully vaccinated or recovered persons are exempt from testing under the COVID 19 Protective Measures Exemption Ordinance of 8 May 2021, but must provide proof of full vaccination or recovery upon request.
• Teaching staff are entitled to be shown the negative certificates or proof of full vaccination or recovery. The university explicitly chooses the trust-based approach in this point in order to ensure that courses and examinations are as practicable and simple as possible.

Persons who cannot provide proof of their vaccination/recovery/testing status will be expelled from the room of the event. This is the exercise of domiciliary rights. The incident must be recorded and reported immediately to the President. The expulsion can be lifted if the person provides proof, for example by carrying out a self-test.

Yes.

Both courses and on-site examinations are considered attendance events. 

The negative certificates are valid for 72 hours (3 days), so that a maximum of two tests are necessary if the course is held on different days between Monday and Saturday.

Yes, according to the COVID 19 Protective Measures Exemption Ordinance of 8 May 2021, fully vaccinated and recovered persons are exempt from the testing requirement, but must provide proof of full vaccination or recovery upon request.

The current guidelines on the mask requirement and the distance requirement also continue to apply to these groups of people.

As a general rule: Attendance at on-site events is only permitted with negative proof. 

Our previous testing concept (valid until 14.11.2021) is no longer valid, i.e. no more self-tests including the personally signed negative certificate will be accepted.

Instead, official test certificates from official (rapid) test centres are necessary from now on.

The "negative certificate" can then simply be brought to the course or exam.

Here is an overview of possible testing stations:

• Brandenburg: www.dahme-spreewald.info/sixcms/detail.php/70521
• Berlin: www.berlin.de/corona/testzentren/

Yes, according to the COVID 19 Protective Measures Exemption Ordinance of 8 May 2021, fully vaccinated and recovered persons are exempt from the testing requirement, but must provide proof of full vaccination or recovery upon request.

The current guidelines on the mask requirement and the distance requirement also continue to apply to these groups of people.

Only those persons who have been vaccinated with one of the four vaccines approved in the European Union are considered "vaccinated". 

These are:

• mRNA vaccines: Biontech/Pfizer; Moderna
• Vector vaccines: Johnson & Johnson; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca)

Versions of the EU-approved vaccines approved abroad (original or licensed productions) are equivalent to the above-mentioned EU-approved vaccines for the proof of vaccination protection. For further information, please refer to the list at the Paul Ehrlich Institute.

Persons vaccinated with a vaccine not licensed in the EU (or equivalent) are considered unvaccinated and must be tested.

Four vaccines are admitted in the European Union.

These are:

• mRNA vaccines: Biontech/Pfizer; Moderna
• Vector vaccines: Johnson & Johnson; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca)

Versions of the EU-approved vaccines approved abroad (original or licensed productions) are equivalent to the above-mentioned EU-approved vaccines for the proof of vaccination protection. For further information, please refer to the list at the Paul Ehrlich Institute.

Persons vaccinated with a vaccine not licensed in the EU (or equivalent) are considered unvaccinated and must be tested.

Versions approved abroad of the EU-approved vaccines approved abroad (original or licensed productions) are equivalent to the above-mentioned EU-approved vaccines for the proof of vaccination protection. For further information, please refer to the list at the Paul Ehrlich Institute.

Persons vaccinated with a vaccine not licensed in the EU (or equivalent) are considered unvaccinated and must be tested.

Vaccines licensed in the EU:

• mRNA vaccines: Biontech/Pfizer; Moderna
• Vector vaccines: Johnson & Johnson; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca)

Against the background of offering a large part of the courses in the winter semester in attendance in compliance with the corresponding Corona regulations, a difficult situation arises in particular for international students who have been vaccinated with non-recognised vaccines.

The resulting question of the free use of Corona tests has now been resolved positively: International students will continue to have the opportunity to be tested free of charge. This is at federal expense and is limited until 31.12.2021. The Coronavirus Testing Ordinance of the BMG, which was published in the Federal Gazette on 21.09.2021, refers to the relevant target group in § 4a: 

§ 4a Testing in vaccine-naïve and segregated persons.

The following asymptomatic persons are entitled to testing by means of PoC antigen tests:

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3. until 31 December 2021, persons who have not yet reached the age of 18 at the time of testing, pregnant women at the time of testing and students at the time of testing who have been vaccinated with vaccines other than those listed by the Paul Ehrlich Institute on the Internet at the address http://www.pei.de/impfstoffe/covid-19.

The student e-learning advisors at Wildau Technical University have compiled important information for students on how to take online exams. The tips and advice are intended to make exam preparation easier. 

On January 18, 2021, the President published Executive Order P03-2021 (in German). In the following, you will find the most important contents once again:

• Within the scope of my legal powers, I, as President of the Wildau University of Applied Sciences, order in view of the ongoing Corona pandemic that the processing time for all Bachelor's and Master's theses started, continuing, or to be completed in the winter semester 2020/21 will generally be extended by two months. A separate application is not required.
• Extensions already approved by examination committees by 25 January 2021 do not count towards the two-month period. The supervisors must inform the students of the extension period ex officio, if applicable. The extension option applies to all students, including those on dual or part-time programmes.

As always, you can find the complete decree at: https://www.th-wildau.de/hochschule/praesidium0/verfuegungen-der-praesidentin (in German)

As of January 18, 2021

The use of the TH Wildau University Library is possible, provided that all applicable rules of distance, conduct and hygiene are observed. All important information on this can be found on the website of the university library.

If you have any urgent questions, please contact us at bibinfo@th-wildau.de or phone +49 3375 508-123.

As of September 30, 2020

You can find the latest news on the canteen run by the Studentenwerk Potsdam on our campus in Wildau here: CLICK

The summer sports programme will take place from 17 May to 8 July 2021. As of today, some courses (non-contact sports) could even take place in presence, of which the team can also offer the online variant as a "back-up" for many. There are both individual appointments and courses lasting over a longer period of time.

Up-to-date information can be found on the University Sports page.

Anyone who would like to take part in additional sports can get some ideas on the YouTube channel of TH Wildau. The student health ambassadors Ronja Heyman and Max Rau show in the "Bewegte Pause" how short exercise units can be integrated into everyday life.

As of May 12, 2021

The departments of the Studentenwerk Potsdam, including social counseling and psychosocial counseling, can be contacted by phone or email.

As of April 29, 2020

BAföG-eligible students in Brandenburg can now receive BaföG for another semester longer! The required proof of achievement according to paragraph 48 BAföG can be submitted one more semester later.

What exactly does the new regulation mean for you?

• You started your studies in the summer semester 2020 or before? Then you can receive BAföG for 3 semesters longer.
• Your studies began in the winter semester 2020/21? Then you are entitled to BAföG for 2 semester longer.
• Your studies began in the summer semester 2021? Then you are entitled to BAföG for 1 semester longer.
• Your maximum funding period expires after the end of this summer semester, but you have not yet finished your studies? Then contact the BAföG office if you would like to benefit from this regulation.
• If you have not received BAföG so far, you must first apply in order to be able to secure a possible claim.

If you have any questions, the BAföG Office can be contacted by telephone during office hours on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 9.00 and 11.30 a.m. and on Tuesday between 1.00 and 3.00 p.m.

Further information can be obtained from the Studentenwerk Potsdam. 

As of May 12, 2021

Interim financial aid provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is intended to help those students who can prove that they are faced with financial hardship caused by the pandemic despite ongoing efforts to overcome this situation, who need immediate help and are unable to overcome their pandemic-related hardship by making use of other support. Interim financial aid can be applied for by German and foreign students who are enrolled at a public or state-recognised higher education institution in Germany.

The interim financial aid complements the other initiatives that have already been launched to support students in the unprecedented situation caused by COVID-19. Students benefiting from loans, scholarships or similar in the relevant month are not excluded from applying for interim financial aid.

Depending on the proven need, between 100 euros and 500 euros can be paid out as a non-repayable grant.

The application may be submitted separately for each month until September 2021. In case you can document that you are in a financial hardship due to the pandemic, an application can be made for each new month. The reasons for the hardship must have originated in the application month up to the day before the application was submitted or in the two preceding months. If the original reason dates back longer, own efforts to improve the pandemic-related hardship must be documented in the above-mentioned period.

Source: www.ueberbrueckungshilfe-studierende.de

Answers to the most important questions about applying for the bridging aid are available from the Student's Association Potsdam.

As of May 12, 2021