Welcome Centre

Dear international academics,

We would like to invite you to register for our Welcome Centre German Courses during the Winter Semester 2024/25.
There are three different levels of German courses available:

Please note that not all the classes are held weekly. Check the detailed dates on the course schedule, once you have access to it on Stud-IP.

Since the classes are designed to be quite open, participants can also take part in just one of the two sessions per week, for example. However, if you would like to receive a certificate of attendance, we recommend that you attend classes regularly. If you would like the certificate of attendance please contact the Language Centre at the end of the course.

The German courses are free of charge. Please contact us if your spouse is interested in taking part in the German courses too. They will receive a user name to access the course on Stud-IP.
Please let us know if you have children and need childcare during the German course. We will try to work with the University's family department to make this possible.

To register, please send an email to Samantha Pallack (samantha.pallack@uni-passau.de) indicating which course level you would like to attend (beginner, intermediate or advanced), please also cc  researchmobility@uni-passau.de .

The Foreigners' Office of the City of Passau is moving. As of 01 July 2024, the new location of the Foreigners' Office of the City of Passau is Dr.-Ernst-Derra-Straße 2, 94036 Passau.

You can reach it with the city bus lines 1,2,8 and 9 via the stop "Kohlbruck-Erlebnisbad" and with the city bus lines 5 and 6 via the stop "Dr.-Ernst-Derra-Straße".

The e-mail contact auslaenderamt@passau.de remains unchanged.

To practice conversing in German in an informal setting away from language courses, there are two regular language cafés in Passau.

Café Deutsch takes place every second Thursday from 17:00 to 19:00 in the common room of the Gemeinsam Leben und Lernen in Europa Association (Lederergasse 1). The exact dates are always published one month in advance in the flyer on the website.

There is also a language café every Thursday from 20:00 at RIO (Lederergasse 50). Various tables are opened there for several languages.

Feel free to try out the offers, alone or with friends and family. Everyone is welcome, regardless of their language level!

On 6 March 2024, the University of Passau was awarded the 'Shaping Diversity' certificate by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. (Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany). This marks the successful completion of the diversity audit in which the University has participated since the end of 2021 and certifies that the University recognizes the diversity of its students and employees and furthermore embraces this diversity for new opportunities in potential for organisational development.

Keeping in context of the Diversity Audit and in collaboration with Dimas D. Laksmana and Enid Still from the Chair of Critical Development Studies, we have collected articles for the Welcome Centre Newsletter. Now we are happy to present these contributions as a collection in the form of our magazine Let's Talk About Diversity and Inclusion.