Covid-19: Answers about the current situation

The winter semester 2022/23 is an on-campus semester! This does not preclude individual online courses, as this is at the discretion of the instructors. The signal from politicians is that there are unlikely to be any significant restrictions.

For studies, there are no binding rules - except possibly for internships and student research projects at the departments. This is because certain facilities may still require masks, for example. Lecturers should inform their students directly of the requirements at their institution.

However, the President's Office appeals to all university members to continue to comply with protective measures. This applies particularly to wearing a mask: Medical masks protect your colleagues and fellow students, FFP2 masks also protect you yourself. Please be considerate of your colleagues so everyone feels safe: For example, if instructors ask you to wear a mask, comply with that request.

Furthermore, the university management recommends that rooms be aired out regularly, that the usual hygiene rules be followed, and that everyone use the Corona Warn app and get vaccinated. There are currently no restrictions on entering buildings.

All informations and a map can be found on the page Study Stations.

There is no mask obligation for studies - except possibly for lab courses: This is because, by means of institution-specific risk assessments, masks may still be mandatory. Lecturers inform their students about the requirements at their specific lab course.

However, the President's Office appeals to all university members to continue to comply with protective measures. This applies in particular to wearing masks. Medical masks protect your fellow students and lecturers, and FFP2 masks additionally protect you yourself. Please be considerate of those around you so that everyone feels safe: For example, if lecturers ask you to wear a mask in the classroom, please comply with that request.

Please note: The binding regulations of the respective institution apply not only to lab courses, but also outside of the study program - for example, in the case of final theses or student assistant jobs at a department.

A central information of the lecturers or the other students by lecturers does not take place.

The infected person is asked to inform directly their contacts of the last days about the infection, so that they can be particularly attentive to the hygiene recommendations. The university management also recommends for this reason to always follow the general infection protection measures: Vaccinate, wash hands, use Corona warning app, wear mask, ventilate regularly.

If symptoms occur that could be related to a Covid 19 infection, we ask that affected individuals be as vigilant as possible: Cure at home, reduce contacts, test. If contacts are necessary, then wear an FFP2 mask, pay attention to distances, ventilate, wash hands etc.

You can have a test done, for example, at the test center in the district town hall on Garbe. Opening hours and appointments

The libraries are open to all user groups - including people who are not members of the University. There are no access restrictions. Masks are not mandatory, but we recommend that all users continue to wear a medical or FFP2 mask.

• KIM website

There are currently no Covid19 restrictions for examinations. We recommend wearing a medical mask, better a FFP2 mask.

For students who are or were enrolled in the summer semester 2020, the winter semester 2020/2021, the summer semester 2021 or the winter semester 2021/2022, the following deadlines in their degree program are extended, for each of these semesters by one semester, but by a maximum of three semesters in total:

• Preliminary examination
• Intermediate examination
• deadline for program completion

So students,

• who were already enrolled in the summer semester 2020 receive three...
• who have been enrolled since the winter semester 2020/21 three...
• who have been enrolled since the summer semester 2021 two...
• who have been enrolled since the winter semester 2021/2022 one...

...semester extension for the above mentioned deadlines.

Student exchange is currently possible without Covid 19 related restrictions.

Yes - there are currently no corona-related restrictions.

If you have any questions about corona, you can use the e-mail address corona-fragen@uni-hohenheim.de.

The winter semester 2022/23 is an on-campus semester! This does not preclude individual online courses, as this is at the discretion of the instructors. The signal from politicians is that there are unlikely to be any significant restrictions.

International temporary students are welcome at the University of Hohenheim in the winter semester 2022/23. There are currently no entry restrictions.

The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) recommends that persons who have been vaccinated with a vaccine not licensed in the EU receive a booster vaccination with an mRNA vaccine (according to existing recommendations) to optimize their vaccination protection. For information on mRNA vaccines, see PEI.

Cooperation, Networks, and Guest Researchers (AA1)

Student Mobility and International Admissions Unit (AA2)

• Office of International Affairs: aaa@uni-hohenheim.de

• Incomings (international exchange students): incoming@ua.uni-hohenheim.de
• Outgoings (Hohenheim students planning or completing a stay abroad): outgoing@ua.uni-hohenheim.de
• Degree-seeking students (full-time international students completing their entire degree in Hohenheim): degreestudents@ua.uni-hohenheim.de
• International visiting scientists: welcome.center@uni-hohenheim.de

Language Center (AA 4)

Mediothek

The winter semester 2022/23 is an on-campus semester! This does not preclude individual online courses, as this is at the discretion of the instructors. The signal from politicians is that there are unlikely to be any significant restrictions.

For studies, there are no binding rules - except possibly for internships and student research projects at the departments. This is because certain facilities may still require masks, for example. Lecturers should inform their students directly of the requirements at their institution.

However, the President's Office appeals to all university members to continue to comply with protective measures. This applies particularly to wearing a mask: Medical masks protect your colleagues and fellow students, FFP2 masks also protect you yourself. Please be considerate of your colleagues so everyone feels safe: For example, if instructors ask you to wear a mask, comply with that request.

Furthermore, the university management recommends that rooms be aired out regularly, that the usual hygiene rules be followed, and that everyone use the Corona Warn app and get vaccinated. There are currently no restrictions on entering buildings.

If you have any questions about corona, you can use the e-mail address corona-fragen@uni-hohenheim.de.

In order to reduce avoidable contacts and not to unnecessarily lengthen the time taken to complete a doctorate, the doctoral committees of all three faculties have opened up the possibility of submitting applications of all kinds digitally.

• Applications for acceptance as a doctoral candidate: The applications for acceptance as a doctoral candidate are prepared and printed out in Docata as before. Both the application for acceptance and the necessary attachments can be provided with a digital signature. The application and attachments are compiled in a PDF file and sent by e-mail to ga@uni-hohenheim.de.

• Applications for the appointment of a mentor, change of title or change of supervisor: These applications can be sent informally to ga@uni-hohenheim.de. However, the correspondence must clearly show that all those involved agree with the change.

• Applications for admission to the doctoral programme: The form provided for this purpose can be used for applications for admission to the doctoral programme. Please send the documents, provided with digital signatures, as a PDF file to the respective faculty:

      - Agricultural Sciences: agrar@uni-hohenheim.de
      - Natural Sciences: natur@uni-hohenheim.de
      - Business, Economics and Social Sciences: wiso_promotion@uni-hohenheim.de 

• Applications for the opening of the doctoral procedure: The applications for the opening of the doctoral procedure are prepared and printed out in Docata as usual. Both the application for acceptance and the necessary enclosures can be provided with a digital signature. The dissertation can also be submitted in the digital version as a PDF document.
  
  The application and attachments are summarised in a PDF file and sent together with the PDF file of the dissertation by e-mail to ga@uni-hohenheim.de.
  
  For the print version, the following applies: Whenever possible, the work should be printed and bound (e.g. via an online printing shop).

At the same time, a printout of the documents with scanned or original signatures must be submitted promptly by mail to the Graduate Academy. The university may require, especially in case of doubts about the authenticity, that the documents are submitted in original.

The applications for acceptance are prepared and printed out in Docata as usual. Both the application for acceptance and the necessary attachments can be provided with a digital signature. The application and attachments should be compiled in a PDF file and sent by email to ga@uni-hohenheim.de.

At the same time, a printout of the documents with scanned or original signatures must be submitted promptly by mail to the Graduate Academy. The university may require, especially in case of doubts about the authenticity, that the documents are submitted in original.

The applications for opening the process are prepared and printed out in Docata as usual. Both the application for acceptance and the necessary attachments can be provided with a digital signature. The dissertation can also be submitted in the digital version as a PDF document.

The application and attachments should be compiled in one PDF file and sent by email to ga@uni-hohenheim.de.

The following applies to the print version: Whenever possible, the dissertation should be printed and bound (e.g. via an online print shop).

Parallel to the procedure described above, a printout of the documents with scanned or original signatures must be submitted promptly by postal mail to the Graduate Academy. Especially if there are doubts about authenticity, the University can require the original documents be submitted.

The Graduate Academy must be informed of the date, time and location of the examination at least 14 days before the examination by means of the form "Schedule" (first as a scan by e-mail, later by in-house mail), so that the timely public announcement of the examination and the provision of the examination documents can be guaranteed.

The following faculty-specific regulations apply to online examinations:

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
The application for the online examination should be sent by e-mail to the chairman of the PhD Committee, Prof. Dr. Stefan Böttinger (boettinger@uni-hohenheim.de). Please cc ga@uni-hohenheim.de.

Only one examinee (person to be examined or one of the examiners) can participate via video conference. However, in special cases (the external examiner from abroad cannot travel to Hohenheim and cannot be replaced by a Hohenheim colleague for professional reasons; the person to be examined is stuck abroad), special permission may be granted by the PhD Committee for multiple video conference participation.

Faculty of Natural Sciences
The examination board for the doctoral procedure and the candidate must agree to the examination being conducted as an online examination. In case of doubt, the chairman of the examination board will decide.

When sending the schedule by e-mail, please cc the chairperson of the examination board to make sure that he/she agrees to conducting the examination as an online examination.

Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
The application for the online examination should be sent by e-mail to the chairperson of the PhD Committee, Prof. Dr. Katja Schimmelpfeng (katja.schimmelpfeng@uni-hohenheim.de).

All members of the examination board must agree to the online examination. In the application for an online examination, reasons must be given why postponing the examination date is not an option. Furthermore, the application to Prof. Schimmelpfeng must state that all members of the examination board agree to the online examination. All members of the examination board must be put in the cc. Please also cc ga@uni-hohenheim.de.

The most important regulations are:

Room Management currently recommends the following rooms in particular for oral exams: HS 34, HS 36, HS 32, HS 20, HS 23.

For simultaneous videoconferencing, the following rooms with special technology are available: HS B11, Multimedia Room (Old Botany).

Room bookings are always made by the event managers of the organizational unit (e.g. institute) in the HohCampus portal.

• Current information about the lecture halls

• Please note the recommendations for infection control

• Please note the information on the Corona pages with the current regulations at the University of Hohenheim.

If you have any questions, you can use the e-mail address ga@uni-hohenheim.de.

If you are ill, you should stay at home.

If you feel fit despite the positive test, you may come to work at the university. However, you must observe mandatory protective measures when doing so:

• Mask obligation (medical mask or FFP2 mask) outside your own home,
• Exception outdoors, if minimum distance of 1.5 meters can be maintained,
• for 5 days after initial detection or after a negative PCR test if the pathogen was detected by rapid test.

In addition, hygiene and contact reduction recommendations apply wherever possible:

• Please check with your supervisors if you can work from home for the 5 days, if applicable.
• For presence workplaces, please wear an FFP2 mask, ventilate regularly, keep your distance and reduce your contacts. Please also make sure to follow these recommendations during breaks: Spend them outdoors and keep your distance from your colleagues.
• Infected persons are not obliged to inform superiors and colleagues about their infection. However, we ask you to do so on a voluntary basis.

If you have acute Covid-19 symptoms or other symptoms of illness; you should recover at home. Please test yourself. However, at the beginning of an infection, antigen test results are not necessarily reliable, so be cautious.

For very mild symptoms, check with your supervisors to see if you can work from home for a few days if necessary. If your workstation is at the university:

• Please test yourself before starting work as well as before attending events. However, at the beginning of an infection, antigen test results are not necessarily reliable, so be cautious.
• Wear an FFP2 mask when in a room with other people.
• Air out rooms regularly.
• Reduce your contacts.
• Pay particular attention to compliance during breaks. Spend them outdoors, keeping a suitable distance from your colleagues.

• Test yourself if you develop symptoms.
• Reduce your contacts.
• Check with your supervisors to see if you can work from home for a few days if necessary.
• And test yourself before starting work and before attending events and meetings. Wear an FFP2 mask.
• When you come to campus, wear an FFP2 mask at least when you are in a room with other people. Air out rooms regularly, and reduce your contacts. Pay particular attention to compliance during breaks.