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

Foreign students, especially from non-EU countries, seeking a degree at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences have very different information and support needs due to the variety, complexity and heterogeneity of their cultural backgrounds. Appropriate individual and ultimately efficient counseling and support is time-consuming, elaborate, and requires multi-layered networking to enable truly comprehensive support, the development of self-responsibility, and an increasing likelihood of academic success.

In cooperation with the International Office, the departments and the Student Service Center, the planned advising 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 funds, AStA, job search
• Social issues: integration of studies and everyday life, exam anxiety, single parents, pregnancy, housing search/loss, residence law hurdles, follow-up application with focus on students with disabilities and/or chronic illness and students with refugee biographies
• Organization of targeted exchange of experiences

Ms. Ilse Page

ilse.page@hwg-lu.de