Our tasks

As the exe­cu­ti­ve body of the stu­dent body, the AStA (All­ge­mei­ner Stu­die­ren­den­aus­schuss) is re­spon­si­ble for the day-to-day busi­ness of the stu­dent body and re­p­res­ents its in­te­rests both wi­t­hin the uni­ver­si­ty and vis-à-vis or­ga­ni­za­ti­ons out­si­de the uni­ver­si­ty (e.g. the RMV or the Stu­den­ten­werk).

If you have ques­ti­ons that go bey­ond the sub­ject-re­la­ted mat­ters of your field of stu­dy, you can turn to the AStA in con­fi­dence. You can, for examp­le, have your stu­dent pro­jec­ts fun­ded (see Fun­ding) and ap­p­ly for a loan in case of fi­nan­ci­al dif­fi­cul­ties (see Ser­vices and Of­fers). In ad­di­ti­on, the AStA is the or­ga­ni­zer of the le­gen­da­ry uni­ver­si­ty par­ties. It ful­fills its uni­ver­si­ty po­li­ti­cal re­spon­si­bi­li­ty by par­ti­ci­pa­ting in in­ter­nal uni­ver­si­ty com­mit­tees such as the Se­na­te and by sup­por­ting stu­dent working groups.

Out­si­de the uni­ver­si­ty, the AStA ta­kes a stand as a stu­dent body on (uni­ver­si­ty) po­li­ti­cal, cul­tu­ral and so­ci­al is­su­es.

The AStA is elec­ted at the be­gin­ning of each sum­mer se­mes­ter by the stu­dent par­li­a­ment (Stu­Pa) from among its mem­bers. Every stu­dent at the uni­ver­si­ty can stand for elec­tion to the Stu­Pa and thus to the AStA. The Stu­Pa mee­tings usual­ly take place once a week and are an­noun­ced two days in ad­van­ce. The free pro­ject-re­la­ted coope­ra­ti­on of stu­dents is wel­co­me.