Please contact the International Office with any kind of problem. You can reach the Incoming Coordinator, Mrs. Porwol, by phone or e-mail.

The rectorate intends to conduct teaching and study operations in the summer semester 2022 in presence. The precise design will be carried out in strict compliance with the applicable hygiene regulations and in accordance with the decree of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Explicit reference is made to the infection protection measures of the Federal Republic of Germany, in particular to the regulations for entry into Germany, and to a possible adjustment of teaching and study operations due to a changed decree or infection situation.

The enrollment in the winter semester 2022/23 takes place in person on site at the university. The documents required for this are listed in the admission letter. The dates for the personal enrollment as well as the link for the enrollment registration will be sent by mail.

Please send your documents via e-mail according to the deadlines to: sekretariat.studium@hochschule-stralsund.de

You can find important contact persons for the suitable faculties of your study courses on the website of the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund: Hochschule Stralsund > HOST > Fakultäten > Elektrotechnik und Informatik/Maschinenbau/Wirtschaft > Ansprechpartner

Moreover, you can find an overview of all staff members and lecturers of the university here: https://www.hochschule-stralsund.de/en/host/the-university/staff/

Please contact your contact persons via e-mail.

The entire campus area is accessible again, but only with a pass or proof of appointment and with mouth-and-nose cover. The regulations for public contact in university operations remain in place. Accordingly, the first contact must be made by mail, e-mail or telephone and only if it is unavoidable in individual cases to receive visitors on site, an appointment must be made in advance. It is strongly recommended to wear a mouth-and-nose cover in all university buildings.

Due to the current infection situation, contact opportunities on campus should be reduced to a minimum in order to protect all students and employees.

The application period for the winter semester 2022/23 for exchange students will be over at 31.05.2022. The semester will start on 12 September with the International Welcome Week. Lectures will be held from 19 September 2022 - 13 January 2023.

General information about Erasmus in connection with Corona can be found here: https://www.daad.de/en/coronavirus/

If you have been living in Germany for a longer period of time and your residence permit is about to expire, please fill out the application for extension.
If you are applying for a residence permit for the first time, please fill out this application form. Submit the respective completed application form and all necessary documents to the Immigration Office in Stralsund:

Immigration Office (Ausländerbehärde)

Marienstraße 1
18439 Stralsund  

Opening hours:

Tuesday 9.00 - 12.00 and 13.30 - 18.00

Thursday 9.00 - 12.00 and 13.30 - 16.00

The processing of the application may take a few weeks. Should your visa or residence permit expire soon, please ask for a so-called fictional certificate (Fiktionsbescheinigung).

If you are abroad and have questions about your visa, please contact the German Embassy in your country.

Be aware that if you enter Germany from an international risk area, you are obliged to fill out the digital registration on entry and carry the confirmation with you. The confirmation will be checked by the carrier and may also be checked by the Federal Police within the framework of its responsibilities as a border control agency.

In case of entry after previous stay in a risk area (high-risk area or areas of variants of concern), travelers must be in possession of a negative test result (no older than 48 hours of entry) or proof of vaccination or proof of recovery. The proof must be uploaded via the entry portal (see link in the information mail).

If you are entering Germany from a risk area youmust, as a rule, alreadey carry a negative test certificate with you on entry and, if demanded by the carrier, present this proof for the purpose of carriage. You may also present proof of vaccination or proof of recovery. Transportation without proof is excluded.

All risk areas as well as virus-variant-areas are listed here.

Immediately after your arrival from a high-risk area you need to proceed directly to your accomodation and remain there exclusively for a period of 10 days (quarantine).  The quarantine can be terminated prematurely or does not have to be started if a proof of recovery, a proof of vaccination or a negative test result is transmitted via the entry portal (see section: obligation to register). The quarantine can be terminated in each case from the time of transmission.
 

After prior stay in areas of variants of concern, you need to proceed directly to your accomodation and remain there exclusively for a period of 14 days (quarantine). The possibility of ending quarantine early when entering from areas of variants of concern is only possible if this area will be downgraded during the quarantine.

The Residents' Registration Office and the Immigration Office are open for visitors again.

Immigration Office (Ausländerbehörde) Stralsund

Marienstraße 1
18439 Stralsund  

Opening hours:

Tuesday   9.00 – 12.00 and 13.30 - 18.00

Thursday   9.00 – 12.00 and 13.30 - 16.00

Residents' Registration Office (Ordnungsamt) Stralsund

Schillstraße 5-7
18439 Stralsund

Opening hours:

Monday 8 – 12 Uhr

Tuesday 8 – 12 Uhr und 13 - 18 Uhr

Wednesday by appointment only

Thursday 8 – 12 Uhr und 13 - 16 Uhr

Friday 8 – 12 Uhr 

The most important measure is: Protect yourself and others and stick to the current hygiene rules.

Currently, we are looking for volunteers to support students in quarantine with the supply of daily goods. If you are interested, please contact the International Student Coordinator (international.students@hochschule-stralsund.de).

In the University’s Corona section under https://www.hochschule-stralsund.de/corona/ you can find up to date and regularly updated information about the current situation at the University as well as measures for preventing a further spread of the virus.

The administrative district of Vorpommern-Rügen also provides information at https://www.lk-vr.de/Willkommen/Corona about current developments regarding the corona pandemic in the district as well as in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

For information in English we suggest checking out the official website of the World Health Organization https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019.

Moreover, you can get information on the website and live blog of the news portal Tagesschau:https://www.tagesschau.de/thema/coronavirus/. An English translation of the live blog is daily updated here: https://www.lengoo.de/blog/tag/covid-19-live-blog/

The mentioned sources are offering reliable information.

We are currently advising against starting a stay abroad.

Please write an E-Mail to international.office@hochschule-stralsund.de with

1) a short explanation why the mobility must be cancelled,

2) the planned start date of the mobility,

Fixed rates for the stay abroad can only be paid for the respective period in which the student stayed abroad for the purpose of studying. Additional, already paid mobility rates must be reclaimed back (regulations for half/full rates apply here).

If the stay abroad, that was initiated by a PROMOS scholarship, is not taken up, the scholarship cannot be paid. If the scholarship was already paid, the payment must be returned.

Regardless of whether a mobility rate was paid or not to finance a study abroad, evidenced costs (e.g. flight or train tickets, cancellation costs, visa fees and costs for vaccines) which occurred due to non-cancellable travel bookings shall be refundable to the maximum of the amount of the mobility fixed rate which applies to the particular country. Costs for travel insurances CANNOT be reimbursed.

Actual, non-cancellable expenses for the stay abroad (e.g. rent deposits) shall be refunded to the maximum of the amount of the mobility fixed rate which applies to the particular country and in terms of economic feasibility. 

In this context we would like to remind you of your duty of mitigation (e.g. conclusion of a travel cancellation insurance, travel bookings at a later point of time).

Generally, only actual necessary cancelation/rebooking costs that cannot be legitimated in another way can be reimbursed with evidence only. This evidence must be submitted reasonably (e.g. cancellation of flights by the airline, departure constraints). The documents will be kept by the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund for documentary purposes. 

Non-cash benefits (e.g. air tickets) that sponsored persons receive need to be considered when calculation overruns as well.

However, we are currently checking the possibilities of cost absorption since the resources of the programme nearly exhausted to the fullest. A refund of costs can therefore not be confirmed until a final clarification by the DAAD.

All PROMOS sponsored persons worldwide can end their stay abroad early if desired.

Meanwhile the Federal Foreign Office published a worldwide travel warning. You should immediately consider and use possibilities to return. For finding a decision, please also consider that the situation is developing in some countries very dynamically and unpredictably. The numbers of Corona-infected can increase suddenly in every country. At the same time regular travel connections decrease sharply and issued travel constraints rise worldwide. The increasing numbers of people infected will burden local health systems eventually. Besides the health infrastructure of a country, the political stability and general security standard in the host country should also be considered when deciding. You should not assume that a return programme by the German government will be implemented in every country if the situation gets worse.

Please write an E-Mail to international.office@hochschule-stralsund.de with

1) a short explanation why the mobility must be cancelled,

2) the actual period of the mobility (start and end date),

3) evidence about incurred costs.

Fixed rates for the stay abroad can only be paid for the respective period in which the student stayed abroad for the purpose of studying. Additional, already paid mobility rates must be paid back (regulations for half/full rates apply here).

If the stay abroad must be ended early within the PROMOS mobility period, costs for a new return flight or costs for a change of bookings shall be refundable.

Regardless of whether a mobility rate was paid or not to finance a study abroad, evidenced costs (e.g. flight or train tickets, cancellation costs, visa fees and costs for vaccines) which occurred due to non-cancellable travel bookings shall be refundable to the maximum of the amount of the mobility fixed rate which applies to the particular country. Costs for travel insurances CANNOT be reimbursed.

Actual, non-cancellable expenses for the stay abroad (e.g. rent deposits) shall be refunded to the maximum of the amount of the mobility fixed rate which applies to the particular country and in terms of economic feasibility. 

In this context we would like to remind you of your duty of mitigation (e.g. conclusion of a travel cancellation insurance, travel bookings at a later point of time).

Generally, only actual necessary cancelation/rebooking costs that cannot be legitimated in another way can be reimbursed with evidence only. This evidence must be submitted reasonably (e.g. cancellation of flights by the airline, departure constraints). The documents will be kept by the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund for documentary purposes. 

Non-cash benefits (e.g. air tickets) that sponsored persons receive need to be considered when calculation overruns as well.

However, we are currently checking the possibilities of cost absorption since the resources of the programme nearly exhausted to the fullest. A refund of costs can therefore not be confirmed until a final clarification by the DAAD.

PROMOS-scholarship holders that ended their stay abroad but still perform their study objectives in online courses or in a similar way – and therefore fulfil part of the scholarship purpose – can be funded in this period of time with a scholarship until the end of the original mobility period. Scholarships that have not been taken up yet are not eligible to be paid.

You need to submit plausible evidence of performing your study objectives (e.g. registration for online courses, other prove given by your host university). The documents will be kept by the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund for documentary purposes.

As soon as we have additional or new information, we will publish it in the FAQ immediately. We ask for your understanding that finding solutions together in the interests of the students takes some time in this current exceptional situation and thank you for your patience. You can also find all the information in the FAQs of the DAAD.

Sponsored persons that continue their study mobility abroad via online courses still receive their funding. This requires that all courses are offered by the university of the host country and contribute to the study objectives defined in the Learning Agreement. It is not of importance where the courses are taken up in the host or home country. Hence, the study objectives still must be accomplished (regardless of the place where the courses or exams will be implemented) in order to fulfil the Grant Agreement.

Sponsored persons that continue their mobility abroad via home office still receive their funding. This requires that the tasks are offered by your host institution and it requires that the tasks contribute to the objectives defined in the Learning Agreement. It is not of importance if you work via home office in your host or home country. Hence, the objectives still must be accomplished (regardless of the place where the courses or exams will be implemented) in order to fulfil the Grant Agreement.

Please let the institution in your host country know that under the fulfilment of all requirements the confirmation for a stay abroad for the whole period of studies (present phase and E-Learning phase) should be certificated. If this should not be possible due to the current circumstances, an informal correspondence with the partner university that will be submitted to the sponsorship file of the person is sufficient. In this correspondence a confirmation for the whole study abroad should be visible or – as an addition to the existing “Confirmation of Stay” about the present phase – the confirmation of the additional fulfilled E-Learning phase. 

Meanwhile the Federal Foreign Office published a worldwide travel warning. You should immediately consider and use possibilities to return. For finding a decision, please also consider that the situation is developing in some countries very dynamically and unpredictably. The numbers of Corona-infected can increase suddenly in every country. At the same time regular travel connections decrease sharply and issued travel constraints rise worldwide. The increasing numbers of people infected will burden local health systems eventually. Besides the health infrastructure of a country, the political stability and general security standard in the host country should also be considered when deciding. You should not assume that a return programme by the German government will be implemented in every country if the situation gets worse. 

If you should decide to stay in your host country, you will do it on your own responsibility to the exclusion of any liability by the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund.

If you should decide to stay in your host country, you will do it on your own responsibility to the exclusion of any liability by the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund. We would like to remind you at the same time to register yourself in the “Krisenvorsorgelisten” of the Federal Foreign Office. About this the German foreign diplomatic mission will send out safety information (“Landsleutebrief). Please de-register from the list when you returned to Germany.

Please keep yourself updated about the current safety situation. You could, for example, subscribe to the newsletter or install the app by the Federal Foreign Office of your host country to receive safety and travel information. Please read independent news and inform yourself in your social surroundings. Providently collect telephone and emergency numbers of the German foreign diplomatic mission (p.r.n. save them on your mobile phone). You can find the phone numbers on the website of the suitable German foreign diplomatic mission.

The Federal Foreign Office published a worldwide travel warning for touristic travels. Because of that, students and teaching staff should not take up a stay abroad at the current time. 

Students should generally inform themselves before departing how the situation in the host country is and should find a decision together with the International Office of the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund.

In the current situation, and in the Erasmus+ programme as well, are personal health and security the top priority.   

Please write an E-Mail to international.office@hochschule-stralsund.de with 1) a short explanation why the mobility must be cancelled, 2) the planned start date of the mobility.

The EU-Survey as well as the 2nd OLS-language test do not have to be taken up in this case.

If the mobility cannot be cancelled cost-neutrally, shall sponsored persons receive back a part of the pre-financing that matches the incurred costs. It is possible that you can also receive back a refund for reserving an accommodation. 

Please keep all evidences and information and provide them to the International Office of the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund. A refund of costs cannot be confirmed until a final clarification by the DAAD.

Please write an E-Mail to international.office@hochschule-stralsund.de with 1) a short explanation why the mobility must be cancelled, 2) the actual period of the mobility (start and end date), 3) subsequently submission of the original evidences or certified copies.

You are eligible for the funding that covers the time period in which you performed the activities abroad. Example: If the mobility started on January 1 and should end on July 1 and the activities were abandoned on March 15, you are eligible to keep the funding for the time period from January 1 to March 15.

Scholarship holders should get paid or respectively get to keep the remaining funding (from the date you ended the mobility to the planed end date, which would be March 16 to July 1 in the beforementioned example) if one of the following conditions is fulfilled:

a) You are planning to take up the mobility again once it will be possible again in your host country.

b) You are willing to continue the mobility with online-activities (e.g. E-Learning, Home Office) published by your host institution.

c) You have to pay for costs that are directly and exclusively connected to the mobility (e.g. utilities, rent etc. abroad)

If none of the mentioned conditions are met, you cannot get paid  the remaining funding or respectively funding needs to get paid back.

You need to explain in a written way to the International Office of the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund that one of the before mentioned condition is fulfilled and you must submit evidence of the actual accrued costs.

If you are staying in your host country and:

a) you are still paying for costs that are directly and exclusively connected to your stay abroad (e.g. utilities, rent etc.) and

b) you are participating in study alternatives offered by your host country 

you can keep your funding.

Furthermore, you shall be able to receive an additional funding to cover the time period in which you have to stay abroad due to the Covid-19 crisis and which extents your initial plans of staying abroad. You must provide evidence about the actual accrued costs. Receiving an additional funding cannot be confirmed until a further clarification by the DAAD.

To account the actual costs due to force majeure original evidences or certified copies of rental contracts, transport costs etc. are needed. They must be kept in the file of the sponsored person und will, as the circumstances require be reviewed after the conclusion of the projects by the NA DAAD. In reasonable exception cases can the evidences be submitted as a scan or copy. Please get in contact with the International Office of the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund to clarify this.

If you wish to continue your Erasmus+ mobility in the same academic year, this is possible without a renewed application but with a prior written agreement between all partners.

If you wish to catch up on your Erasmus+ mobility in another academic year, please inform yourself about the regular application process at the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund. 

Students can be sponsored by Erasmus+ up to 12 months respectively in the bachelor, master and promotion.

Example: If someone drops out of a mobility after one month, which was initially planned for four months, is eligible for 11 more months in their current study cycle.

A plausible proof must have the following characteristics:

• Personalization - to whom the document belongs to and
• Date of issue - when was the document issued and
• Situation - what type of cost is present 

The proof is only valid in connection with a proof of the original costs and a traceable explanation regarding the additional costs related to the mobility (difference).

For the accounting process of costs that actually incurred, original documents or certified copies of rental contracts, travel expenses, etc. are required. Only in justified exceptional cases, documents as scans or copies are sufficient. Documents must be in German or English. Scholarship holders should let documents in other languages ​​get translated. If the cost of a certified copy significantly exceeds the amount stated in the document, a simple translation may also be sufficient. Please contact the International Office of Hochschule Stralsund – University of Applied Sciences for further clarifications.