Category: Beratung & Soziales

  • Legal Assistance extends office hours

    Legal Assistance extends office hours

    Starting in April, students can make use of a legal assistance on Tuesdays from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. From April, the law firm SAMMLER & MÜLLER is going to extend the office hours for the Legal Assistance on Tuesdays by one hour. Thus the law firm offers their consultation services three hours per week…

  • Studentenwerk Leipzig introduces “Freitisch” vouchers and increases hardship means

    Studentenwerk Leipzig introduces “Freitisch” vouchers and increases hardship means

    Mensa vouchers and more financial means for hardships – Studentenwerk Leipzig increases support for students facing an financial emergency situation. Due to inflation, students are increasingly facing money worries. This is why the Studentenwerk Leipzig expands the support offers for students exposed to financial emergencies that they are not responsible for. These students from now…

  • Mobility survey: How do students use public transport?

    Mobility survey: How do students use public transport?

    Take five minutes of your time and actively influence the future of the semester ticket – participate in the mobility survey now! The contract between the Studentenwerk Leipzig and the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund (MDV) regarding the semester ticket is going to end by summer term 2024. In order to represent the interests of the students concerning…

  • Child benefit increase from January 1, 2023

    Child benefit increase from January 1, 2023

    Until now, the first and second child each received 219 euros, the third 225 euros and the fourth 250 euros. That will change as of January 2023. How much will families with children be relieved by the increase? For the first and second child: increase of 31 euros per month. For a family with two…

  • Turn of the year 2022/23: These are our opening and office hours

    Turn of the year 2022/23: These are our opening and office hours

    Over Christmas and the turn of the year, we have changed opening hours in our Mensas and Cafeterias as well as office hours at the Studentenwerk Leipzig. Mensas & Cafeterias The opening hours can be found on the website of the respective institution. Mensacardservice in the SSZ: last office hours 20.12.2022 // first office hours 05.01.2023…

  • New series of law lectures in November

    New series of law lectures in November

    Series of legal lectures by the law firm Sammler & Müller in cooperation with the Social Counselling Service Studentenwerk Leipzig 1. Online Lecture Title: What do your parents have to pay – maintenance claims during studies Student children are entitled to maintenance – even beyond the age of 18. As a rule, the right to…

  • Welcome to winter semester 2022/23!

    Welcome to winter semester 2022/23!

    The new semester is about to begin: We are pleased to welcome all Leipzig students – especially first-semester students and new international students! The Studentenwerk Leipzig welcomes all new students and returning students for the winter semester 2022/23! For most of our counselling services, students can choose between face-to-face appointments with prior booking and video…

  • Information on the heating cost allowance and the energy price flat rate

    Information on the heating cost allowance and the energy price flat rate

    As questions about the heating cost allowance and the flat-rate energy fee keep coming in, we have summarised some basic information and further links. The heating cost subsidy and the energy price flat rate (EPP) are different allowances. Therefore, if you are eligible for both subsidies, you can also receive both subsidies. Heating cost subsidy…

  • Info event for prospective refugee students in Leipzig

    Info event for prospective refugee students in Leipzig

    Studentenwerk Leipzig and Leipzig University will offer an online event on 21 November 2022 around the questions:  Am I allowed to study in Germany? What can I study in Leipzig? What universities and academies do exist in Leipzig? What documents do I need to apply? How can I finance my studies? How do I prepare for…

  • Studentenwerk Leipzig celebrates 10 years of Psychosocial Counselling

    Studentenwerk Leipzig celebrates 10 years of Psychosocial Counselling

    Celebration event in the Mensa am Medizincampus / Psychosocial Counselling ensures equal opportunities in studies / Call for stable funding beyond the pandemic