1) Program dates & academic calendar
| Winter Semester 2024/2025 | Summer Semester 2025 [tentative] | Winter Semester 2025/2026 [tentative] | |
| ISP Program Dates | Regular Track: Fast Track - for selected courses including exams: | March 13 through July 11, 2025 | Regular Track: Fast Track - for selected courses including exams: |
| MANDATORY Welcome and Orientation Period | Thursday September 26, 2024 + Friday September 27, 2024 | Thursday March 13 + Friday March 14, 2025 | Thursday September 25, 2025 + Friday September 26, 2025 |
| Application Deadline for Exchange Students - Application procedure and documents | May 15, 2024 | October 15, 2024 | May 15, 2025 |
Latest Arrival Exchange Students... ...for MANDATORY welcome & orientation | September 25, 2024 | March 12, 2025 | September 24, 2025 |
| ...for taking our "A1" pre-semester beginners class German as foreign language | course ongoing | tba | |
| Start "A2/B1" pre-semester refresher class German as foreign language [only before the summer semesters] | course ongoing | tba | |
| Deadline Submission - Final /Updated Learning Agreement | October 11, 2024 | March 21, 2025 | October 10, 2025 |
| Final Examinations Registration Period | October 14 through October 25, 2024 | April 1 through April 11, 2025 | October 13 through October 24, 2025 |
| Europe and Friends Day /Explore Expo - Education Abroad Fair – our incomings present their home Universities and home countries | November 06, 2024 | tba | tba |
| On campus company fair "x-day" – well over 60 companies are available on campus to recruit for internships/jobs... :-) | tba | tba | tba |
| Field Trips | Munich - Nov. 13, 2024 Frankfurt - Dec. 04, 2024 | tba | tba |
| End of Lecturing Period | regular track: January 24, 2024 fast track: December 22, 2024 (including exams) | June 27, 2025 | tba |
| Final Examinations Period | January 27 through February 07, 2025 | June 30 through July 11, 2025 | tba |
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| Last update: September 13, 2024/JE |
2) Online information sessions for prospective exchange students | Format: “Meet the International Office”
These online sessions are a joint information offer of our University's International Programs Office and our Business School's International Study Program (ISP). Target group: students who have been nominated for a study abroad semester at Pforzheim University by our partner universities.
Topics:
- application process, visa, housing – Ms. Meike Schwarz, Manager incoming exchange students
- course choice & learning agreements (Business School) – Mr. Jochen Ebert, Head International Department Business School, ISP Program Coordinator
Next dates:
- Saturday October 5, 2024, 14.30 - 16.00 CEST (Pforzheim time)
Target group: students coming to Pforzheim University on exchange during our summer semester 2025
- Saturday May 10, 2025, 14.30 - 16.00 CEST (Pforzheim time)
Target group: students coming to Pforzheim University on exchange during our winter semester 2025/2026
Links for the online meetings – will be distributed a few days before the meetings, the distribution lists are based on the nominations of the home universities of our prospective exchange students.
