05/2014 - 12/2014 - Follow-up project: 03/2015 - 11/2015

Foreign students, especially from non-EU countries, who are seeking a degree at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society have very different information and support needs due to the large number, complexity and heterogeneity of their cultural backgrounds. Appropriate individual and ultimately efficient advice and support is time-consuming, complex and requires multi-layered networking in order to enable truly comprehensive support, the development of self-responsibility and an increasing probability of academic success.

In cooperation between the International Office, the Departments and the Student Service Center, the planned advisory platform will offer support in the following areas:

• Studies: dealing with examination regulations, language skills, tutoring, loss of examination entitlements, contacting professors (if necessary)
• Financing: Scholarship options and applications, emergency aid fund, AStA, job search
• Social issues: integration of study and everyday life, exam anxiety, single parents, pregnancy, finding/losing accommodation, legal residence hurdles, follow-up application with a focus on students with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses and students with a refugee biography
• Organization of targeted exchange of experiences

Ms. Ilse Page

ilse.page@hwg-lu.de