Dear future incoming students,
We hope this email finds you well and healthy during these unsettled times.
We are contacting you today in order to provide you with some important information regarding your exchange semester in autumn 2020/21 at Faculty 06 in Germersheim.
Earlier this week, the university board of JGU Mainz as well as our Faculty Board made the following decisions:
We deeply regret that we cannot provide you with more detailed information regarding the winter semester 2020/21 at present. As soon as we have further information, we will contact you immediately.
In spite of everything we do have good news for you:
We are fully aware of the fact that the current developments might affect your preparations for your stay at our Faculty. We do realise that this has implications for you and your planning: In the case that you wish to postpone your exchange semester in Germersheim to the summer of 2021 (or even to a later semester), please let us know. It goes without saying that you will be very welcome at our Faculty in Germersheim at a later time, too.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time if you have further questions.
Kind regards,
The International Office at Faculty 06 in Germersheim
Dear partners,
First of all we would like to apologize for the long time we have kept some of you waiting. Thank you all for your patience and understanding! In order to answer your questions regarding the organization of the upcoming summer term 2020, we had to gather information and await decisions from the responsible institutions within JGU and Faculty 06 at Germersheim.
Today, we are happy to give you an update and reliable information regarding the main aspects of how the summer term 2020 will work at the Germersheim campus and which options we can provide for exchange students who had planned to come to study with us.
As you already know, JGU has decided to suspend all study exchange due to the development of the corona crisis. Since this decision has been taken and communicated, all instances at JGU have been working on solutions for the benefit of the students affected by this suspension.
The formal and organizational situation at present is as described below. Please take into account that due to the constantly changing situation new developments might follow:
· There will be no new registrations without physical presence at JGU (this affects students nominated only for the summer term).
· Students who have been at JGU in the winter term and are still here, can stay for the upcoming summer term, if they feel well and safe here and do not want to risk travelling.
· Students who have been at JGU in the winter term and wish to cancel their stay and return to their home countries will of course be assisted and helped by us. Please note that the complete amount of the semester contribution will be returned to them (we instructed the students on how to proceed).
· Students who have been at JGU in the winter term, have left Germany and cannot return now for the summer term, are strongly advised to cancel their exchange. This is not meant to exclude anybody or force them to cancel their enrolment, but it is due to JGU’s understanding of exchange as study experience which involves physical presence abroad and immersion in a foreign culture.
· At Faculty 06 in Germersheim, it has now been decided that this last group of students can stay enrolled and take online courses if the following conditions are fulfilled:
1. They are enrolled as students at JGU.
2. They have no apt solutions at their home universities.
3. Their status as Erasmus / exchange students is guaranteed, and this is communicated to us through the responsible person at the university of origin (exchange coordinator or representative of the IO).
If your intention is to let your students stay with us ‘virtually’ under these general conditions, please note the specific conditions at Faculty 06 at the moment
· The summer term 2020 will be completely, or almost completely, online. All departments and colleagues are right now working on solutions to adapt their courses to this modality. We cannot guarantee that all courses which had been planned will be offered, but we are confident that a good part of it will.
· This means that we cannot guarantee the existing learning agreements. We ask for your understanding and for a flexible way of dealing with problems which might be caused by courses not offered at all or not as planned. From our part, further changes to the learning agreements represent no problem.
· We will be able to offer the advanced intensive course “German for translators” in an online version (the ‘package’ with 7 courses and 24 ECTS credits, especially designed for exchange students with a proficiency level below B2). Our colleague Dr. Kempa and his team are working on it right now.
We kindly ask you to discuss this situation with your students and communicate your decision directly to us at the International Office Germersheim, the office in charge of the coordination of our Faculty’s mobility programs. We will gladly be at your service and try to answer any questions that you may have.
All the best to all of you!
The International Office Germersheim
Marcel Vejmelka | Torsten Dörflinger | Julia Beck | Melanie Holstein
International Office Germersheim, A.120
Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (FTSK)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
An der Hochschule 2 | 76726 Germersheim
Tel.: +49 7274 508 35 118
Fax: +49 7274 508 35 218
E-Mail: intger@uni-mainz.de
Dear partners,
I hope this e-mail finds you well and healthy!
As we had to inform you already, due to the ongoing Corona-crisis, JGU had to cancel all exchange mobility for the upcoming summer term 2020 (April to July). This also applies to our Germersheim campus, where Faulty 06 (Translation and Interpreting) is located.
We have already informed the incoming exchange students nominated for the summer term about this decision. As some students have already been in Germersheim in the last winter term and planned to stay for the summer, we offered those who are RIGHT NOW IN GERMERSHEIM that we would not send them home, and that they could stay for the summer term if they preferred to stay instead of returning to their home countries. These students know that the summer term will be something extremely improvised.
This information, I fear, has been compromised through a small network of incoming students from several Spanish universities who, as a group of about twenty, informed us that they wish to continue their exchange studies with us.
The problem is that these students are at the moment in Spain or elsewhere outside Germany. In response, we tried to explain to them that in the present situation, it is impossible or at least not recommendable to travel from Spain (or other countries) to Germany, given that in Spain there is a curfew and the Germany is gradually shutting down social life and restricting our public mobility. This is, unfortunately, not a time for travelling abroad and an Erasmus exchange…
Still, we receive messages from the students telling us that they would come here as soon as the situation allows, just yesterday the “network” seems to have decided to contact us again and we received a dozen or so messages within an hour…
We are answering those messages with the same information as before, but now we decided to contact you again as our partners and coordinators in Spain, in order to inform you about this students’ activity and about our position.
We would like to kindly ask you to communicate this to your students who had been nominated for Erasmus at Germersheim in the summer term 2020. We do not want to exclude them or reject them, we have to react to the ongoing crisis and think about the safety and health of all students and staff. We are aware that the cancelling of the summer term exchange can cause problems for your students study plans, so please contact us if there is anything we could do in order to help them in this situation.
We all hope thing get back to normal as soon as possible. Happily we are receiving your nominations for the next academic year and send you ours. We any of your students want to change from the summer term 2020 to the next academic year, they will be very welcome at Germersheim.
Any other doubts or question, please do not hesitate to contact us.
All the best to you, con nuestros saludos cordiales!
Marcel Vejmelka
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Marcel Vejmelka | Torsten Dörflinger | Julia Beck | Melanie Holstein
International Office Germersheim, A.120
Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (FTSK)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
An der Hochschule 2 | 76726 Germersheim
Tel.: +49 7274 508 35 118
Fax: +49 7274 508 35 218
E-Mail: intger@uni-mainz.de
Comunicat 19-03-2020
Dear Colleagues and Partners,
We hope this message finds you well, even in the light of the current Covid-19 situation.
On Friday, March 13, the Ministry of Education of Rhineland-Palatinate decided to postpone the beginning of the summer semester until April 20 and to cancel all university events until then. As of yesterday, public life has been further curtailed drastically.
All these decisions seriously affect student life on campus and in the city. At this point,
1. we cannot promise that we will be able to fulfill the learning agreements because we are not sure whether the April 20 start of lectures will be further postponed. JGU will try to switch to online classes, but we realize online instruction will not meet the expectations of our exchange students because it does not constitute a real ‘immersion experience’,
2. we cannot guarantee that there may not be further restrictions of public life due to the coronavirus, which would also affect the dormitories,
3. we cannot foresee to what extent and how long travel restrictions to Germany or re-entry difficulties for returnees will continue to be in force.
Considering all this, we regretfully must advise against exchange students coming to JGU in the summer semester 2020. We regret to have to say this, but we wish for our exchange students to have a positive experience in Germany, and at this point, we cannot guarantee that.
For practical purposes, exchange students should contact international@
We hope that the situation will have improved in the fall, so that we are already looking forward to welcoming your exchange students in the winter term 2020/21 and to continuing our valuable cooperation!
With deep regret and best wishes
Your International Office at JGU Mainz
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Gutenberg International School Services (GIS Services)
International Office
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
D 55099 Mainz
Room: Forum 7, Room 01-714
Tel.: +49 6131 39-20695
Fax.: +49 6131 39-27018
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Comunicat 06-03-2020
Dear partners, dear students,
We would like to give you an update regarding the recent events in the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
JGU’s university management board takes the current developments seriously, monitors the situation closely and follows the recommendations of the government (on state and federal level) as well as of the highest public health authority, the Robert Koch Institute (www.rki.de/en). No precautionary measures or restrictions for incoming students have been announced yet. As for now, all introductory events and all lectures will take place as planned.
If the situation should change, leading to a recommendation of precautionary measures for universities, JGU will follow these provisions and inform all partners and students as soon as possible.
Please let us ensure you that we will gladly be in touch and answer all questions you may have.
Best regards,
Your Team GIS Services
International Office at JGU Mainz
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Silke Jennerich | Marta Marciniak-Gorski | Dr. Thomas Weik
Fouad Ahsayni | Jan Koloska | Naomi Eckhardt | Annika Flügel
Gutenberg International School Services (GIS Services)
International Office
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
D 55099 Mainz
Room: Forum 7, Room 01-714
Tel.: +49 6131 39-20695
Fax.: +49 6131 39-27018
Office hours: