Corona-News | student crisis team

Dear fellow students,
the next semester will present us with unprecedented challenges and problems. Lectures and seminars will probably be held online and we still have no idea how exams will be organized and when theses can be defended again. Some of us are doing everything to make the concerns and needs of us students heard in the executive committees in order to find acceptable solutions for us. We have formed a student crisis team at the FIN to coordinate all efforts. At the moment our main goals are:

1. To guarantee teaching for the coming summer semester and, if possible, with a uniform solutions for online teaching.
2. The expeditious organisation of examinations, if necessary in alternative examination forms that do not require attendance in the faculty.
3. The early resumption of final examinations, e.g. with the help of video conferencing solutions.
4. General relief for students in this exceptional semester, e.g. in the form of cancelled votes and preliminary examination performance.

In the near future, many more topics will be added, such as the problems of international students with entering the country, access to laboratories while maintaining all necessary protective measures, deadline extensions, not counting the whole semester as a semester for Bafög and study duration and much more. We need your help, so that we know what is bothering you the most. Please write to us about your problems and worries for the coming semester so that we know what we have to bring
forward. The crisis committee has set up a special e-mail address for this purpose: crisis@farafin.de. If you don't tell us about your problems, we can't do anything for you and everybody would be alone in these really difficult times. We try to keep you informed about decisions and new information through all our channels
(Telegram, email, website, Facebook and others). Here is a first batch of information that may not have reached you yet:

1. At the moment it looks like the next semester will take place, although in a significantly different form than usual.
2. For all (!) courses of the whole university it is necessary to register in the LSF in the coming semester. In the next days (until Apr. 06.) the functionality is activated in the LSF. Please register then, but only where you really want to go. Your student e-mail address, which is stored in the LSF, will then be used by the teachers as an initial contact possibility.
3. On behalf of the dean's office, a working group is currently working on a central solution for lectures, seminars and exercises, in form of video conferencing tools.
4. There is still no idea when examinations will be resumed. However, we will discuss this issue with the dean's office.
5. The permanent information page of the university: https://www.ovgu.de/corona.html

We are trying to achieve the best possible results for all of us during the crisis. Stay healthy.
On behalf of the crisis management team,
Jonas Hielscher (Faculty Council), Lydia Munick (FaraFIN), Dominik Weitz (Examination Committee)