From today, you can take one additional person and up to two bicycles with you throughout NRW with the semester ticket. The promotion is valid up to and including August 17th. Transitional areas to Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Hesse (Hessen), Rhineland-Palatinate...
On June 29, 1995, exactly 26 years ago, the German Bundestag passed the new abortion law. Since that day, a woman who performs an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy remains unpunished. The conditions for this are that the abortion must be performed by...
The free attempt regulation is also in effect this semester
68 years ago today, large sections of the German Democratic Republic’s citizens went on strike in protest against an increase in working hours, which was intended to rebuild the state’s ailing finances. This went down in the history books as the June 17...
206 years ago today, the Congress of Vienna ended with the signing of the Congress Act by the participants. The Congress had been in session since 18.09.1814 and had aimed to reorganize Europe, as its political landscape had changed considerably over the course of...
The Crisis Management Team and the rectorate have decided on steps to reopen the learning rooms and to hold excursions due to decreasing incidence rates. The Central Study Rooms (including UniBib) are to be reopened step by step. The learning spaces must be booked...
Marriage for all – what is taken for granted today was not always so: on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state in the USA to allow same-sex marriage. Initially still limited to two years and only for native citizens, the law was opened in...
The individual standard period of study (“Regelstudienzeit”) will be increased once again for all students enrolled in the summer semester of 2021 – this is the result of a new regulation issued by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. If you were already...
Today, 88 years ago, public book burnings took place in 22 German university cities, in which writings and books by Jewish, pacifist, Marxist, and other authors opposing the Nazi regime were burned as part of the “Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist”...
The election announcement for the upcoming student body elections is being released today. Due to the Corona pandemic, the election will be held for the first time as a mail-only election. In order to allow all students to participate in the election without risk in...