The Welcome Centre offers a platform for international academics to get to know other peers. At the monthly events, you can expand your network nationally as well as internationally.
The events take place over the course of the semester. Besides the Orientation Week in October, they include cultural events, workshops and day trips.
Feel free to contact us for information or to take part in the next event.
If you wish to partake in one of our events, please contact us.
Join us for our Semester-Opening-Event! While enjoying cold drinks and good talks, we will participate in the Pub Quiz, which starts at 21:00 and enjoy the lively atmosphere of an Irish Pub. Your friends are also welcome to participate.
The quiz will be in English.
Please register for this event by sending an e-mail to researchmobility@uni-passau.de by Tuesday, 8 April 2025, so we can make a reservation.
Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
Time: 20:00
Location: Shamrock Irish Pub (Roßtränke 5, Passau)
We would like to invite families with children and all international researchers young at heart to a traditional German Easter Egg Hunt on campus!
Please register for this event by sending an e-mail to researchmobility@uni-passau.de by Tuesday, 22 April 2025, and let us know how many of you will actively participate in the egg hunt.
Date: Thursday, 24 April 2025
Time: 14:30
Meeting Point: Administration Building (Innstraße 41, 94032 Passau)
This semester, we're excited to offer another campus tour! If you're unfamiliar with the campus or its buildings, join us for an hour filled with interesting facts about the University's history, tips on key locations you'll need to know during your time here, and for a short coffee break at the end of the tour in the NK Cafeteria.
Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Time: 13:00 – 15:00
Meeting Point: Innstraße 41 (In front of the Administration building entrance facing the Sports Centre)
If you'd like to join, please register via researchmobility@uni-passau.de.
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.
You can find more of the University's events in the Calendar of Events.
