Startklar - Orientation

Information and assistance in organizing your study...

• Advice on German and foreign language courses
• Introduction of the fundamentals for the course selection (module catalog and examination regulations)

   

... and with the university computer system

• Registration in the university network
• Online course registration
• Internet library system (registration, borrowing, research)

Support with Formalities

• Enrollment in the student office
• Opening a bank account
• Health insurance
• Visa and Immigration Office
• Campus Card

Advice on Financial Issues

• Possibilities of financing your studies
• Contact Persons
• Employment law for international students

Information on everyday life in Regensburg

• Study strategies
• Cultural differences in university systems and communication
• Medical care in Germany
• Inexpensive travel options
• Presentation of leisure and social contact possibilities
•  Events and excursions

Registration for the course is automatic, after self-enrollment in the Startklar course on GRIPS.

For registration you will need:

♦ your student account (also called NDS or RZ account).This account will be given to you after you handed in all the documents for online enrollment.

♦ in the case you have not yet finished enrollment, you can access the course in the first weeks via a guest account for non-enrolled students.

⇒ Click here to access the Startklar course on GRIPS

Guest account application form

⇒ Form for requesting a guest account

⇒ Activation code: 887UF

You will need this code only once when you are requesting your guest account, then log in to GRIPS with the assigned account.

Video Tutorial: how to fill in the form for your guest account

The orientation program "Startklar" will take place online via the e-learning platform GRIPS. The content of the GRIPS course is offered in German and in English.

Various in-person events will be held the week before classes begin: Worshops, get-to-know-you meetings, tours and more.

⇒ Startklar Event Week schedule (.pdf file)

⇒ You can look up where the room is on the room info page

Admitted applicants for the study-preparatory German courses can take a placement test to update their language level before enrolling.

⇒ To the registration form for onSET

Some of the international students who took part in Startklar share their feedback on the course with you here:

• "I really appreciate the Startklar course, it is very helpful and informative. As an international student, this is exactly what I needed as a start. Thank you guys!!"
• "I would absolutely recommend the Startklar course to any new student, particularly international students - everyone involved in running the programme was so helpful and friendly. A lot of valuable information was shared, and having the opportunity to easily meet people was really useful for me to settle in after arriving in Regensburg."