Bridging Assistance for Students in Financial Difficulties will continue to be offered by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research presumably until September 2021.
On 12 February 2021, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has decided to continuously provide Bridging Assistance to students for the entire summer semester 2021. Leipzig students in pandemic-related emergencies can thus apply for the grant at the Studentenwerk Leipzig until September 2021.
The BMBF provides the Bridging Assistance for students in pandemic related emergency situations via the Deutsches Studentenwerk and sets the guidelines for the framework conditions of the funding. This aid was launched in the first lockdown and relaunched in November 2020.
The bridging assistance can only be applied for online.
BMBF hotline for bridging assistance:
Phone: +49 0800 26 23 003
E-mail: ueberbrueckungshilfe-studierende@bmbf.bund.de
Service hours of the hotline:
Due to the many questions from students concearning first bridging assistance that arose last spring, we have compiled the most important questions about the application process as well as technical advice: