Campus in Balance (CiB) - Your studies, your health

University Counselling Service of the Federal Employment Agency of Germany at Bielefeld University

Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Room D 0-170 (University Hall, near Westend)
E-mail: Bielefeld.Hochschulberatung@arbeitsagentur.de
www.arbeitsagentur.de/vor-ort/bielefeld/hochschulberatung

Federal Employment Agency of Germany

Werner-Bock-Str. 8, 33602 Bielefeld
Tel.: 0800 4 5555 00 (toll-free)
www.arbeitsagentur.de/bielefeld

 

We encourage pupils from families with no experience of higher education to be the first in their family to study. 6,000 volunteers are involved in 80 local ArbeiterKind.de groups across Germany to inform pupils about the possibility of studying and to support them on their journey from starting university to successfully completing their studies and starting a career. Most of our volunteers are students or first-generation academics themselves and report on their own experiences of their educational advancement and provide encouragement as personal role models.

The BAföG counselling service will help you with your BAföG applications and provide you with a help desk about your entitlement to BAföG. If you have problems with the BAföG office or if you are unsure whether you are entitled to BAföG, the BAföG advice centre will be happy to help you, because our advice is independent advice from experienced students for you.

BAfög and student financing at a glance.

Are you unsure whether your degree programme was the right choice? What is actually bothering me right now? What do I need/what do I need to change in order to successfully complete my degree programme? Do I need a course correction and possibly a change of degree programme? Counselling can also be used to formulate your own topic in the first place. You do not have to come with a specific concern, even a bad feeling is enough. We will support you in finding the right solutions for you.

 

Making the right decision during your studies is not always easy. Especially for degree programmes with a wide range of career options, it is important to think about your future career while you are still studying. BLICKPUNKTE aims to make it easier for participants* to gain an insight into science and offer them a framework in which they can let their gaze wander. One of the aims of BLICKPUNKTE is therefore to familiarise participants with the options and possibilities, point by point, conversation by conversation, and in this way to find a good (career) path for themselves.

It is not always easy to make decisions about your future during your studies. It can be helpful to think about your future career while you are still studying, especially for degree programmes with a wide range of appointments. BLICKPUNKTE aims to make it easier for participants* to gain an insight into science as a professional field and offer them a framework in which they can let their gaze wander. They are given the opportunity to find out about doctoral programmes and paths into science at an early stage. At the same time, it serves as a fixed meeting point with other female* students and academic staff from the faculty, where appointment-, career- and everyday life-related questions can be discussed.

Bielefeld University's Career Service is a central advice centre for questions regarding career orientation and career planning:

• We show individual paths and strategies for self-responsible career planning.
• We work closely with other counselling centres and faculties.
• We develop innovative event formats so that students, doctoral candidates, postdocs and employers can get to know each other.

 

Rent, books, social fees - studying costs money, even if you can look forward to many discounts. However, there are numerous ways in which you can finance your studies: from a scholarship to a traditional part-time job to BAföG or student loans.

The Graduate Centre is the point of contact for all doctoral candidates, doctoral students and postdocs at Bielefeld University. Here you will find information about doctoral studies at Bielefeld University as well as offers for interdisciplinary qualification, counselling and networking. We are happy to advise and support you!

Information and documents for auxiliary staff and interested parties

The movement mentoring programme is aimed at female students, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers at Bielefeld University in 3 funding lines. It offers coordinated programme modules and protected framework conditions for individually tailored career development. Participants sharpen their focus on personal priorities and develop sustainable perspectives and action strategies for a self-confident future.

Are you interested in gaining insights into the unwritten rules of the science system, building a network with role models and like-minded people and a motivating setting for developing and achieving professional and personal goals? Then find out more about movement!

 

"movement.med" is a diverse, quality-assured and continuously evaluated programme of gender-equitable personnel development offered for the medical school OWL and the University Medical Center OWL. Highly qualified female scientists at the medical school OWL and the University Medical Center OWL are supported in their career development and made visible as promising talents.

Interested in an internship at the university? We offer internships for school pupils, one-year internships and one-year internships to obtain a university entrance qualification.

The SKILLS team at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) supports students in the areas of writing, learning and the planning and implementation of tutorials.

In addition to the possibility of individual writing counselling, you will find workshops and seminars for your skills and talent development, profiling and career guidance. On the SKILLS platform, you will also find curated and bundled offers from the entire Bielefeld University and beyond.

Life is hard, someone very wise is said to have once said. For students, it's probably even a bit tougher. It's the time when your empty wallet is confronted with countless things you'd like to spend money on. Then, for the first time in your life, there are things that you need but didn't think about before and are now suddenly expected to pay for. How nice it would be if there was someone who could help you out with special student tariffs and more. Worry not, because you've just found your one-stop shop for student discounts, all designed to make your life as a student easier. This means you can save in practically all areas of life, whether it's buying new technology or travelling on your next holiday.

Supporting students. Strengthening OWL.

The OWL Study Fund Foundation was established to

• help to ensure that anyone who is suitable and motivated, regardless of their social background and financial situation, can study in OWL.
• To give private individuals, foundations, associations and companies the opportunity to make a social commitment and support students in their personal and appointment development.
• to attract particularly talented and committed students to the OWL region.

 

Since 1 October 2014, Section 46a of the NRW Higher Education Act has provided for "Representation of the interests of student assistants". This regulation is set out in more detail in Section 22 of Bielefeld University's constitution in the version dated 1 March 2021 and in Section 27 of Bielefeld University's election regulations in the version dated 15 December 2021. The representation was first elected on this basis in the summer semester of 2016.