Information for refugees

Contact:

Monika Hörr
International Office, Room 171
Tel: +49 234 - 36901 142
E-mail: international@evh-bochum.de

• Advice on study opportunities at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences (degree programmes in social and health care)
• Information on admission requirements and applications
• Assessment of your documents and certificates (school, university, work, etc.)
• Advice on applying via uni-assist
• Information on our services for refugees and other new immigrants

Online and telephone counselling
Write me your questions and concerns via email or simply call by phone.
Languages: German and English

Video chat counselling
You would like detailed counselling and cannot come to the university? I offer video chat counselling via the Zoom platform.
Write me an email with your desired appointment time, after which I will send you the link for the virtual counselling room.
Languages: German and English, also with Arabic, Ukrainian or Russian translation by arrangement.

Personal counselling on site
If you would like to come in person for counselling, please write me an email with your appointment request or call by phone.
Languages: German and English, by arrangement also with Arabic, Ukrainian or Russian translation

You already have a good command of B2 German and still have time before applying or starting your studies? Then become a guest student at EvH! A guest auditor is a "trial study" for one semester, but without exams. You have the opportunity to take part in individual seminars, get to know the university and come into contact with other students. And you can check whether studying at the EvH meets your expectations.

The guest auditor programme is free of charge for people with little money (i.e. for most refugees). If you are unsure whether you will be exempt from the costs, please contact us.

Are you interested? Then contact Monika Hörr at international@evh-bochum.de, Tel: 0234 - 36901 - 142

In order to make it as easy as possible for refugees to start their studies at EvH, we try to provide guest students and international first-semester students with so-called tandem partners. These are students of the EvH who will be your contact person during your guest student period or your first semester - for questions about your studies and possibly also for questions about everyday life. You and your tandem partner decide on the amount of time and the intensity of the contact.

Further information can be found here: Tandem Programme

Are you interested? Then contact Monika Hörr at international@evh-bochum.de, Tel: 0234 - 36901 - 142

Are you already studying at EvH and realise that you could improve your German skills a little? Then take part in a study-accompanying German course (maximum 4 lessons/week) at our cooperation partner RUB. The courses on offer are varied and range from "Listening Comprehension" to "Argumentation in Studies" and "Scientific Writing". You can find all the courses here: https://www.daf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sbgk/Kursangebot_semesteruebergreifend.html.de
Participation is possible for refugees and other international students and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the programme "NRWege ins Studium".
Interested? Then register at the International Office at international@evh-bochum.de. All international students with and without a refugee background will receive an explicit invitation to register by e-mail at the end of February (for the summer semester) and at the end of August (for the winter semester).

Once a semester, after registering for exams, the International Office offers a scientific writing workshop for refugees and other international students (2x 4 UE). Through exercises you will try out how to get into writing, how to develop a first idea for a topic and how to narrow it down further. You will learn how to draft the final research question, how to make an outline and what constitutes scientific language and scientific writing.

The compact format is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the "NRWege ins Studium" programme.

Interested? Then contact the International Office at international@evh-bochum.de. However, all international students with and without a refugee background will receive an explicit invitation to register by e-mail in April and October respectively.

As part of the "NRWege ins Studium" project of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, EvH RWL awards scholarships for students with a refugee background.

The scholarships are aimed at particularly talented students with a refugee background who are highly motivated and likely to succeed in their studies. Further criteria for funding are financial need and social commitment.

Call for applications winter semester 2023/24:
The scholarships for the winter semester 2023/24 will be announced in June 2023.
Applications are open to refugee students who are about to begin their studies at EvH RWL - but also to students from the 2nd semester onwards.
However, all international students with and without a refugee background will receive an explicit invitation to register by e-mail in April and October respectively.

Contact and advice:
Monika Hörr
International Office
Tel: 0234 - 36901 142
E-mail: international@evh-bochum.de

A special concern of our university is the promotion of international and intercultural exchange and the integration of people with a migration history. Here you will find an overview of the offers for international and intercultural encounter as well as for the integration of refugees and other new immigrants: https://www.evh-bochum.de/integration-und-begegnung.html (in German)