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:
Office Hours & Contact
Feel free to visit us during our office hours. These always take place at the InterKultiTreff (IKT). We look forward to meeting you!
Office Hours during the semester break (Winter 2026): Mondays 3:00 - 4:00 pm and Thursdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Our weekly office hours as well as many events organized by us take place in the InterKultiTreff (IKT), Walther-Rathenau-Straße 19, 39106 Magdeburg.
You can also reach us via:
Email: ikus@ovgu.de
Tel.: +49 (0)391 - 67 515 75 (only during office hours)
Postal address: IKUS c/o Akademisches Auslandsamt der OVGU, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg
The most recent information about different events, getting back your deposits and more news are posted on our Welcome to OVGU app!
Or you can simply send us an email here. We will try to reply as soon as possible.
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About IKUS
IKUS is an intercultural student organization that supports international students in Magdeburg and connects them with other students. We are an intercultural team of OVGU Magdeburg and Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal students.
We offer the possibility to let you have intercultural experiences while making friends. For this, we organize various parties, intercultural country nights, excursion etc.
In addition, IKUS offers continuous advice and support for international students in Magdeburg. We also support newly arrived students taking their first steps in Germany. We answer questions regarding to the German authorities and give advice and help with questions and problems related to studying in Magdeburg. Additionally, we organize our welcome weeks for freshmen.
It is our goal to facilitate (the begin of new) life episodes of international students in Magdeburg, to integrate them in the German society and support them in having intercultural friendships.
Would you like to gain intercultural competences and get to know many interesting people from many different countries, work together with other students, gather (first) experience in organizing events... and have a lot of fun doing that?
Then become a volunteer of IKUS. To become a volunteer, you can write an email to ikus@ovgu.de or visit us during our office hours. The same goes for if you want to organize a cultural evening event!
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? IKT
When? Mondays 4-6 p.m in even weeks
next date: LanguageCafé will be starting again during the Orientation Week at the end of March
