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  • Customer Satisfaction Survey – We Have The Results!

    More than 6,500 people rated our student restaurants and cafeterias in an online survey. The results are positive! How do you like it? We wanted to find out and conducted the second online survey on customer satisfaction at our student restaurants and cafeterias in December 2015. Students and employees of all universities and academies in…

  • More BAföG for More Students as of Winter Semester 2016/17

    More BAföG for More Students as of Winter Semester 2016/17

    Resulting from the BAföG amendment in 2016, the maximum rates increase, so that it is worth for even more students to apply. More BAföG for more students: As of winter semester 2016/17, the chances to be granted BAföG increase noticeably. The reason: The maximum BAföG rate rises by seven percent and higher amounts of exemption…

  • 23. June: Veggie Day at Mensa am Park

    23. June: Veggie Day at Mensa am Park

    The next Veggie Day at Mensa am Park is on June 23! On June 23, there will be another Veggie Day at the Mensa am Park! This Veggie Thursday, restaurant manager René Sonne and his team will cook vegan Sloppy Joe burgers, Tuscan potato vegetable casserole, Asian spring rolls, médaillons of kohlrabi with herbs and…

  • The 21st Social Survey has Started – With a Bilingual Questionnaire for International Students

    The 21st Social Survey has Started – With a Bilingual Questionnaire for International Students

    The Social Survey of the Deutsches Studentenwerk is an empirical analysis of economic and social conditions of students' life in Germany. This Social Survey also includes a bilingual questionnaire used to assess the special situation of foreign students who have come to Germany to study. So if you get an invitation, take part in it!…

  • Illustrated dictionaries for halls of residence for free download

    Illustrated dictionaries for halls of residence for free download

    Illustrated dictionaries for halls of residence in five different languages for download From this day forward, illustrated dictionaries for halls of residence in five languages are available for download on the website of Studentenwerk Leipzig. They may help living together at the halls of residence and facilitate finding one’s way and learning German.

  • Housing service office moves

    Housing service office moves

    The housing service office moves from Straße des 18. Oktober 29 to Straße des 18. Oktober 23! Due to reconstruction works at the student hall of residence at Straße des 18. Oktober 29, starting in April 2016, the housing service point moves its office. The new service office is located at Straße des 18. Oktober…

  • Complete your BAföG-application online!

    From now on you can fill out your application form online on the website "BAföG Sachsen".  The software will navigate you through the whole proposal!More you will find more information abour the application under "Questions & Answers".

  • Quality Survey on BAföG: Grade 2,5 for Leipzig!

    In April/May 2012 Studentenwerk Leipzig carried out its first BAföG-satisfaction survey, to asses the work of the Department for Grants so that the student's needs can be better fullfilled in the future. The Department for Grants of Studentenwerk got an overall grade of 2.5.  Therewith the Department was rated as one of the best (the…

  • Catering of Refugees by Studentenwerk Ended

    Catering of Refugees by Studentenwerk Ended

    We helped refugees at the Ernst-Grube-Halle between August 2015 and February 2016 and provided for their meals. As the use of the Ernst-Grube-Halle on the sports campus of Leipzig University as initial reception facility was suspended on February 4, 2016, the catering service provided by Studentenwerk Leipzig for refugees and asylum seekers, who were accommodated…

  • Chocolate bar callback completed

    Chocolate bar callback completed

    Callback of Mars and Snickers bars successfully completed! Studentenwerk Leipzig too is affected by the callback of chocolate bars as published by the media. We checked the serial numbers of the Mars and Snickers bars on offer at our restaurants and took the concerned bars out of stock. A tip for conscious chocolate lovers: Our…

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