IKUS
Our app "Welcome to OVGU"
The official "Welcome to OVGU" app is now available for Android and iOS. If you have just enrolled at OVGU, this app offers you all the important information about campus life. Especially for our international students, we have useful tips for arriving in Magdeburg:
- News
- Calendar
- Event registration
- Dining hall schedules
- Useful Links
- FAQs
- useful contacts
You can download the app from the AppStore or the PlayStore.
IKUS News
Here you can find all news related to IKUS and other news hat might interest you as an international student:
Mobile Citizen's Office on Campus 02.04.2024-12.04.2024
At the start of the summer semester, the mobile citizens' office will once again be on campus (building 22A-129) and offers all students the opportunity to register and re-register.
The services of the Citizens' Office will be offered in the period from 02.04.2024-12.04.2024, for which you must make an appointment.
Appointments can also be booked immediately on the Service Center website at
http://www.servicecenter.ovgu.de/-p-1142.html
The appointments will be released on a daily basis to ensure optimum utilisation of the appointment frequency.
For further information check the info sheet!
Language café
Do you speak a langauge but never get to use it? Or do you want to speak your mothertongue with other students?
Then come to our Language Café!
Where? CampusTheater (Entrance on the side of WH7 ; J.G.-Nathusius Ring 5)
When? Mondays 18:00-20:00 in even weeks
next date: the Language Café will resume during the Welcome Week of the summer semester
Semesterprogramm Wintersemester 2023/24
IKUS events this semester - further information to be found in the App
November 2023
02.11.2023 - Día de los muertos
17.11.2023 - Open Mic / Live Music night
22.11.2023 - Running Dinner
December 2023
02.12.2023 - arts & crafts evening
07.12. 2023 - christmas dinner
09.12.2023 - Leipzig excursion
18.12.2023 - baking christmas cookies
January 2024
11.01.2024 - Cooking Class
19.01.2024 - Ice Skating
February 2024
15.02.2024 - Workshop: introduction to skating
27.02.2024 - guided tour through the greenhouse
March 2024
07.03.2024 - black light mini golf
14.03.2024 - Bouldern
Call for Applications for Financial Aids (STIBET Programme)
Within the scope of funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AA), the International Office of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg announces
6 financial aids for foreign students and doctoral candidates of the OVGU.
The application period ends on 04 March 2024.
More information you can find here.
Weekly office hours
During the semester our office hours will every week on Monday from 3-4pm and
Thursdays from 5-6pm. During these hours, members of the IKUS team will be available to answer any questions you may have, refund event deposits, etc.
Best wishes,
The IKUS Team
Current information form the Foreigners` Authority Magdeburg on collecting documents via document pick up station
Please carefully read the original leaflet (in German) or the translated leaflet (in English) with information on collecting documents via the new document pick up station as well as the original declaration of consent (in German) or the translated declaration of consent (in English) under data protection.
Please send the completed and signed declaration of consent in the original (German version) to the Foreigners' Authority when applying for the renewal of your residence title.