IKUS
Our app "Welcome to OVGU"
The official "Welcome to OVGU" app is now available for Android and iOS. If you have just enrolled at OVGU, this app offers you all the important information about campus life. Especially for our international students, we have useful tips for arriving in Magdeburg:
- News
- Calendar
- Event registration
- Dining hall schedules
- Useful Links
- FAQs
- useful contacts
You can download the app from the AppStore or the PlayStore.
IKUS News
Here you can find all news related to IKUS and other news hat might interest you as an international student:
Semesterprogramm SoSe24
Dates for the events - for times check Welcome To OVGU- App:
April
27th: Potluck Brunch
27th: Theatre evening
May
3rd: Ukrainian Evening
31th: Bike tour Bauhaus
June
7th: High Rope Garden Elbauenpark
15th: Day Trip to Potsdam
29th: Hiking in the Harz
July
6th: Minigolf Outdoor
13th: Picknick + Outdoor Games
August
16th-18th: Excursion
29th/30th: Dance Workshop
Information Event of the Foreigners' Office
Are you a student in your first or second semester? You don`t have a residence permit yet, but your visa is expiring within the next six months? You have entered the country without a visa and need a residence permit within the next 90 days?
Then come tot he information event on May 3rd, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. in lecture hall 1 (building 26) oft he Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
The immigration office will be happy to explain to you what your next steps are regarding your stay in Magdeburg.
If you took part in the information event on May 3rd, 2024, you will be offered a special consultation appointment for May 6th or May 7th, 2024.
For the information event you don`t need to bring any additional documents with you. We will only request them from you during the special consultation appointments.
Language café
Do you speak a langauge but never get to use it? Or do you want to speak your mothertongue with other students?
Then come to our Language Café!
Where? CampusTheater (Entrance on the side of WH7 ; J.G.-Nathusius Ring 5)
When? Mondays 18:00-20:00 in even weeks
next date: the Language Café will resume during the Welcome Week of the summer semester
Weekly office hours
During the semester our office hours will every week on Monday from 2-3pm and
Thursdays from 5-6pm. During these hours, members of the IKUS team will be available to answer any questions you may have, refund event deposits, etc.
Best wishes,
The IKUS Team
Semesterprogramm Wintersemester 2023/24
IKUS events this semester - further information to be found in the App
November 2023
02.11.2023 - Día de los muertos
17.11.2023 - Open Mic / Live Music night
22.11.2023 - Running Dinner
December 2023
02.12.2023 - arts & crafts evening
07.12. 2023 - christmas dinner
09.12.2023 - Leipzig excursion
18.12.2023 - baking christmas cookies
January 2024
11.01.2024 - Cooking Class
19.01.2024 - Ice Skating
February 2024
15.02.2024 - Workshop: introduction to skating
27.02.2024 - guided tour through the greenhouse
March 2024
07.03.2024 - black light mini golf
14.03.2024 - Bouldern
Current information form the Foreigners` Authority Magdeburg on collecting documents via document pick up station
Please carefully read the original leaflet (in German) or the translated leaflet (in English) with information on collecting documents via the new document pick up station as well as the original declaration of consent (in German) or the translated declaration of consent (in English) under data protection.
Please send the completed and signed declaration of consent in the original (German version) to the Foreigners' Authority when applying for the renewal of your residence title.