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:
Neue Seite
Here you will find the zoom links for the upcoming information events during the Welcome Weeks:
26.03.2024, 10:00 First Steps
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ovgu.zoom.us/j/67477881061
Meeting ID: 674 7788 1061
Passcode: 854356
Assistance in finding Accomodation for new International Students
Dear International Students,
From 19th of March until 25 th of April 2024, every Tuesday (10 AM – 1PM) and Thursday (12 PM – 3 PM), employees from the International Office will assist new incoming international students in finding accommodation in Magdeburg. If you have problems finding a place to stay, difficulties with the German language during your search for a place or simply need further information regarding accommodation, feel free to come and see us during our office hours. Please bring along a copy of your admission letter, passport, visa as well as your German bank account statement and/or your international blocked account statement. Due to the great amount of new students starting their studies here in Magdeburg, please be advised that we will only be able to assist new incoming international students.
For information on contact and location, check the flyer!
Mobile Citizen's Office on Campus 02.04.2024-12.04.2024
At the start of the summer semester, the mobile citizens' office will once again be on campus (building 22A-129) and offers all students the opportunity to register and re-register.
The services of the Citizens' Office will be offered in the period from 02.04.2024-12.04.2024, for which you must make an appointment.
Appointments can also be booked immediately on the Service Center website at
http://www.servicecenter.ovgu.de/-p-1142.html
The appointments will be released on a daily basis to ensure optimum utilisation of the appointment frequency.
For further information check the info sheet!
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
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
Weekly office hours
During the semester our office hours will every week on Monday from 3-4pm 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
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.