Info meetings for international exchange students
The International Office offers a multitude of information meetings held in English every semester for all international students of the University of Konstanz on different current topics.
Summer Semester 2021
This semester all information meetings will exceptionally be held again online/virtually, therefore the dates and times indicated below are referring to Konstanz local time (CEST or UTC+2).
The exact Konstanz local time can be observed here: https://bit.ly/2zHpnlX
Important!
Please be sure to have the listed documents / things at hand as indicated in the respective event description.
X1) Information on the German mandatory license fee (Rundfunkbeitrag)
on Tue, 1.6.2021; 17.00─approx.18.30
Topics of the event
Every adult (18 years and older) registered in Germany is obliged to register for the license fee for the public-service broadcasting. Every household has to pay the fee (17,50 Euro per month).
You have received a letter from ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandradio Beitragsservice? Your flatmate is collecting a share of the license fee from you? One flatmate even claims to not having to pay the fees? What is it all about? All answers here.
Please have at hand:
o all letters you have so far received from the Beitragsservice
o if a flatmate is paying the fees for your household:
Full name, date of birth and "Beitragsnummer" of flatmate (in header of last letter)
X2) COMPULSORY: To-do's and important information before your return home
on Tue, 22.6.2021; 17.00-approx.18.30
Topics of the event
For all international students who are in Konstanz and will leave Konstanz at the end of the summer semester 2021!
You will receive all important information regarding the formalities that have to be dealt with before you return back home (e.g. important information for non-EU/EEA students regarding the residence permit and its expiry, how to request the Transcript of Records, your municipal de-registration and exmatriculation, etc.).
Please have at hand:
o your (Seezeit) tenancy contract
o non-EU/EEA: your passport and residence permit card/visa