Further offers
There are other contact points and information that are useful both within the university and externally. A selection of these is listed on this page.
In addition, there are a number of informative pages on the subject of "Studying with health restrictions/disabilities" on common student portals as well as the pages of the patient associations etc., which cannot be listed here in detail.
Interesting information and tips can also be found on the pages of Healthy Ostfalia and the Ostfalia employees' representative body for the severely disabled.
Contact points at the university(s) or student services organisation
- Learning coaching at the Ostfalia HaW
- Psychotherapeutic counselling centre of the Studentenwerk (external link, opens in a new window)
- Psychotherapy outpatient clinic at the TU Braunschweig (external link, opens in a new window)
- Social and student finance counselling of the Studentenwerk (external link, opens in a new window)
Support! Group and counselling for long-term students at Ostfalia
Students with health restrictions are often "involuntary" long-term students because they have to deal with many interruptions (possibly hospital stays etc.) and/or low resilience.
The Support! Group sees itself as a compass for gaining clarity about personal steps towards graduation. To this end, individual goals are formulated and concrete steps for their realisation are worked out.
-> Flyer (PDF, 245.30 KB) (opens in a new window), (not accessible)
Homepage (external link, opens in a new window)
Contact to self-help organisations / focus on "studying"
- Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft (BAG) Behinderung und Studium e.V. [currently without a website] (external link, opens in a new window)
- Federal Association of Hearing Impaired Students and Graduates (BHSA) e.V. (external link, opens in a new window)
- German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Study and Work (DVBS) e.V. (external link, opens in a new window)
- studiCED - Network for students with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (external link, opens in a new window)
Information and Advice Centre for Studies and Disability (IBS)
The Information and Advice Centre for Study and Disability (IBS) is the nationwide competence centre for the topic of "Study and Disability". Information and counselling, networking as well as lobbying and public relations work are among the tasks of the IBS. The aim of the IBS was and is the realisation of an inclusive university. In accordance with Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have non-discriminatory access to higher education and can study with equal opportunities. The IBS was established in 1982 at the Deutsches Studentenwerk. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.