Study Com­pass: More Equal Oppor­tu­ni­ties in the Edu­ca­tion System

Do you enjoy work­ing with young peo­ple and want to con­tribute to more equal oppor­tu­ni­ties in the edu­ca­tion sys­tem? Then maybe becom­ing a men­tor at Stu­di­enkom­pass is the right thing for you! Pass on your expe­ri­ence from your stud­ies or voca­tion­al train­ing to young peo­ple from fam­i­lies with­out aca­d­e­m­ic experience. 

Your com­mit­ment to equal oppor­tu­ni­ties: shar­ing expe­ri­ences, encour­ag­ing and accom­pa­ny­ing young people

Become a men­tor and pass on your pro­fes­sion­al, aca­d­e­m­ic or train­ing expe­ri­ence to young peo­ple from fam­i­lies with­out aca­d­e­m­ic expe­ri­ence. Sup­port young peo­ple in their study and career ori­en­ta­tion and orga­nize region­al activ­i­ties such as com­pa­ny or uni­ver­si­ty vis­its with your men­tor­ing team.

You are right if you …

  • … have fun and pos­si­bly pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence work­ing with young people.
  • … are ready to accom­pa­ny young peo­ple on their way after high school for 3 years.
  • … you would like to pass on your expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge from your stud­ies or profession.

The Study Com­pass offers you …

  • … con­tin­u­ous sup­port for your vol­un­teer work.
  • … pro­gram-spe­cif­ic con­tin­u­ing education.
  • … a ded­i­cat­ed men­tor­ing team and inter­est­ing network.
  • … cer­tifi­cates for acquired qual­i­fi­ca­tions and for your commitment.

Your tasks in the men­tor­ing team

  • Orga­nize group meet­ings & excursions
  • Give insights into your stud­ies or profession
  • Design dig­i­tal & ana­log workshops
  • Sup­port young peo­ple in choos­ing a field of study or a profession

As a poten­tial men­tor, you should …

  • … be able to present a cur­rent study, a degree or a com­plet­ed voca­tion­al training.
  • … bring fun and, if applic­a­ble, pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence work­ing with youth.
  • … have the time and desire to accom­pa­ny the par­tic­i­pants for two to three years.
  • … have an inter­est in edu­ca­tion­al top­ics and dig­i­tal teach­ing and learn­ing formats.
  • … demon­strate sen­si­tiv­i­ty to stu­dents with fam­i­ly and social risk situations.

Study compass: people-silhouette-during-sunset
Pho­to by Min An from Pex­els: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-silhouette-during-sunset-853168/
Why does the study com­pass exist?

The Study Com­pass was cre­at­ed to con­tribute to more equal oppor­tu­ni­ties in the edu­ca­tion sys­tem. In Ger­many, ori­gin still very much deter­mines which edu­ca­tion­al path chil­dren and young peo­ple take. The fig­ures have hard­ly changed in recent years. The most recent study by the Donors’ Asso­ci­a­tion for the Pro­mo­tion of Sci­ences and Human­i­ties in Ger­many (Stifter­ver­band für die Deutsche Wis­senschaft) from Sep­tem­ber 2021 shows that only 24 per­cent of all non-aca­d­e­m­ic chil­dren go on to uni­ver­si­ty. By con­trast, 79 per­cent of the chil­dren of aca­d­e­mics do so. The imbal­ance is also evi­dent in the area of edu­ca­tion. Chil­dren from non-aca­d­e­m­ic and migrant fam­i­lies drop out of edu­ca­tion dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly often.

What is the Study Compass?

The Study Com­pass is a sup­port pro­gram for high school stu­dents that was found­ed in 2007 on the ini­tia­tive of the Accen­ture Foun­da­tion, the Deutsche Bank Foun­da­tion and the Foun­da­tion of Ger­man Busi­ness. Addi­tion­al main spon­sors are aim — Akademie für Inno­v­a­tive Bil­dung und Man­age­ment Heil­bronn-Franken, aqti­va­tor gGmbH, the Joachim Herz Foun­da­tion, and the Karl Schlecht Foun­da­tion. Numer­ous oth­er part­ners from busi­ness and the foun­da­tion sec­tor have joined the ini­tia­tive in recent years. Through our coop­er­a­tion with min­istries, uni­ver­si­ties, schools, social ini­tia­tives and oth­er sup­port pro­grams, we can build on a large network.

Proof­read­ing ser­vice for internationals

You are an inter­na­tion­al stu­dent and are cur­rent­ly writ­ing a bachelor’s the­sis, term paper or project? Ger­man is not your native lan­guage and there­fore you are unsure about gram­mar and spelling? You would like to have some­one proof­read your work?

Then con­tact Her­mine Hagen­dorff from the Inter­na­tion­al Career Ser­vice. It now offers a proof­read­ing ser­vice for inter­na­tion­al students.

Whether final paper or sem­i­nar paper
The proof­read­ing ser­vice will help you to check and cor­rect your document.

Spelling, gram­mar and punc­tu­a­tion
Proof­read­ing basi­cal­ly includes a cor­rec­tion of spelling, punc­tu­a­tion (peri­od, com­ma, hyphen, etc.) and gram­mar (declen­sion, con­ju­ga­tion, tens­es, etc.). Of course, no feed­back can be giv­en on ques­tions of content.

Sup­port “On-Demand
If you are inter­est­ed in this offer, send an email to hermine.hagendorffhs-heilbronn.de.

In your mes­sage, spec­i­fy the nature and scope of your work to be cor­rect­ed. Con­tact us in good time so that the upcom­ing cor­rec­tion can be scheduled.

Field Robot Event: HHN with Flori­Bot 4.0 on place 3

Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty (HHN) was in Slove­nia at the Field Robot Event. This is a world­wide com­pe­ti­tion that focus­es on the agri­cul­ture of the future. Accom­pa­nied by research assis­tant Bene­dict Bauer and Pro­fes­sor Torsten Hev­er­ha­gen, HHN entered the com­pe­ti­tion with a ded­i­cat­ed team of students.

Flori­Bot 4.0, the self-con­struct­ed robo-farmer, gave the team its name and took on the chal­lenges of the com­pe­ti­tion. The stu­dents Klaudius König, Paul Wolff, Mar­cel Holzwarth and Mar­tin Haag were on board. With their exper­tise and pas­sion for automa­tion tech­nol­o­gy, they formed a strong squad.

The com­pe­ti­tion includ­ed hard-hit­ting com­pet­i­tive dis­ci­plines in which the robots had to demon­strate their capabilities:

  1. Nav­i­ga­tion: The robots had to maneu­ver through crops plant­ed in rows, such as corn or grapes.
  2. Treat­ment of the plants: Flori­Bot demon­strat­ed its abil­i­ty to detect the crop and the con­di­tion of the plants and to water or fer­til­ize them with high precision.
  3. Sens­ing: par­tic­i­pants demon­strat­ed the sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the AI-dri­ven solu­tion to detect and avoid deer as well as peo­ple in the field.
  4. Avoid obsta­cles: The robots had to have built-in safe­ty mech­a­nisms to pre­vent poten­tial injuries to ani­mals and people.

The HHN team with Flori­Bot 4.0 impres­sive­ly achieved 3rd place in the Obsta­cle Avoid­ance task despite the small corn plants. In the oth­er cat­e­gories, the robot also did well and in some cas­es only just missed the podium.

The Field Robot Event may seem play­ful, but it also address­es a seri­ous issue. Tra­di­tion­al agri­cul­ture, with its heavy use of pes­ti­cides, is set to be rev­o­lu­tion­ized by the appli­ca­tion of AI. The basic idea of the com­pe­ti­tion is to reduce the use of pes­ti­cides by pre­cise­ly detect­ing where weeds or pests are in the field. This elim­i­nates the need for blan­ket, large-scale appli­ca­tion of pes­ti­cides across the entire field, mak­ing for more sus­tain­able and envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly agriculture.

The Field Robot event cel­e­brat­ed its 20th anniver­sary in Slove­nia in 2023 and attract­ed a total of 15 inter­na­tion­al teams. 

The HHN team with FloriBot 4.0 at the Field Robot Event
Team Flori­Bot (from left to right): Klaudius König, Bene­dict Bauer, Paul Wolff and Pro­fes­sor Torsten Hev­er­ha­gen with Mar­cel Holzwarth and Mar­tin Haag (sit­ting in front, from left to right). 

From Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty press release, June 23, 2023: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/de/autonome-erntehelfer-hhn-nimmt-am-field-robot-event-teil-und-gewinnt-3-platz-bf51ad405da54d41

Con­ti­nu­ity and strength: Prorec­tors of HHN re-elected

Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty (HHN) has elect­ed its prorec­tors, and the Sen­ate elec­tion body has unan­i­mous­ly opt­ed for con­ti­nu­ity. The incum­bent Prorec­tor Ruth Fleuchaus and the two incum­bent Prorec­tors Ulrich Brecht and Raoul Daniel Zöll­ner were re-elect­ed with an absolute major­i­ty in the first round of voting.

With this renewed elec­tion, they con­tin­ue their suc­cess­ful work in uni­ver­si­ty man­age­ment. Pro­fes­sor Ruth Fleuchaus has already been Prorec­tor for Inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion and Diver­si­ty at HHN since 2008. Pro­fes­sor Ulrich Brecht has been Head of Stud­ies and Teach­ing since 2016. Pro­fes­sor Raoul Daniel Zöll­ner has been in office as Prorec­tor for Research, Trans­fer and Inno­va­tion since 2017. Togeth­er with Rec­tor Pro­fes­sor Oliv­er Lenzen and Chan­cel­lor Christoph Schw­erdt­feger, the Rec­torate team forms a strong and well-coor­di­nat­ed uni­ver­si­ty management.

The re-elec­tion of the prorec­tors cre­ates con­ti­nu­ity and enables the proven team to seam­less­ly con­tin­ue the strate­gic projects of the uni­ver­si­ty man­age­ment. Rec­tor Pro­fes­sor Oliv­er Lenzen is extreme­ly pleased with the deci­sion: “I am delight­ed from the bot­tom of my heart to have the three of them con­tin­ue to be part of the team. We, the entire uni­ver­si­ty man­age­ment, are all dif­fer­ent and thus com­ple­ment each oth­er per­fect­ly. In my opin­ion, this men­tal diver­si­ty is also need­ed to ensure the con­tin­u­ous devel­op­ment of the uni­ver­si­ty. The shared love for the uni­ver­si­ty and our core val­ues weld us togeth­er again and again in our dai­ly work.”

The re-elec­tion of the prorec­tors is a sign of recog­ni­tion of their past achieve­ments and their com­mit­ment to HHN. They have con­tributed sig­nif­i­cant­ly to the devel­op­ment and strength­en­ing of the uni­ver­si­ty. Their exper­tise in the var­i­ous areas of uni­ver­si­ty admin­is­tra­tion and man­age­ment will now con­tin­ue to help guide HHN on its suc­cess­ful path.

Continuity and strength: Prorectors of HHN re-elected: Prorector Ulrich Brecht with Prorector Ruth Fleuchaus and Prorector Raoul Daniel Zöllner (from left to right).
Prorec­tor Ulrich Brecht with Prorec­tor Ruth Fleuchaus and Prorec­tor Raoul Daniel Zöll­ner (from left to right).
The rec­torate of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty is com­plete with Vice Rec­tor Raoul Daniel Zöll­ner, Rec­tor Oliv­er Lenzen, Vice Rec­tor Ruth Fleuchaus as well as Chan­cel­lor Christoph Schw­erdt­feger and Vice Rec­tor Ulrich Brecht (from left to right).

From the Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty press release dat­ed June 22, 2023: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/de/wahl-prorektorat

Dis­cov­er the new offer from NOSH’T: Heil­bronn beer cubes!

It’s time to roll the dice and decide the price of your beer at the Heil­bronn Beer Dice Roll. Let the dice decide how much your beer will cost. Are you lucky and get your beer for one euro? 

From Tues­day, June 20 at 6 p.m., NOSH’T in Heil­bronn will offer Heil­bronn Beer Dic­ing every Tues­day in the future. And those who are hap­py with­out beer can choose from Heil­bronn wines and Aper­ol Spritz and also join in the dicing.

This is how Heil­bronn beer cub­ing works

You have the option to choose between beer or anoth­er drink. Not every drink on the drinks menu qual­i­fies for dice rolling. Prices vary between beer and drink:

Beer cubes

Choose your 0,33 l beer: Dis­tel­häuser Helles, Pils or Radler

Dice the price:

  • 1 = 1 € 
  • 2 = 2 €
  • 3 = 3 €
  • 4 = 3,5 €
  • 5 = Ran­dom short for 2 €
  • 6 = roll the dice again

Drink dice

Choose from: Pinot Gris (0,2 l), Aper­ol Spritz (0,2 l) Sauvi­gnon Blanc (0,2 l), Heil­bron­ner Sec­co (0,1 l), Mijo Hibis­cus (0,45 l, non-alcoholic)

Dice the price:

  • 1 = 3,5 €
  • 2 = 4 €
  • 3 = 4,5 €
  • 4 = 5 € 
  • 5 = Limon­cel­lo 2 cl for 2 €
  • 6 = roll the dice again
Heilbronn beer cubes

NOSH’T

Address: Frank­furter Str. 25, 74072 Heilbronn

Open­ing hours:

Mon­dayClosed
Tues­day18:00 — 22:00
Wednes­day17:30 — 22:00
Thurs­day17:30 — 22:00
Fri­day17:30 — 23:00
Sat­ur­day17:30 — 22:00
Sun­dayClosed

Stu­dent elec­tions 2023

stu­dent elections

Elec­tion period

Mon­day, June 19, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to Wednes­day, June 21, 2023, 5:00 p.m., inclusive. 

What are stu­dent elec­tions good for? It’s about elect­ing stu­dents who stand up for your inter­ests in your stud­ies and at HHN! Find out why every vote counts and how YOU can make a dif­fer­ence here.

Stu­dent elec­tions: Elec­tion Period

From Mon­day, June 19, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to Wednes­day, June 21, 2023, 5:00 p.m., inclu­sive. you can elect your rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the sen­ate and in the fac­ul­ty coun­cils as well as the stu­dent par­lia­ment. The elec­tions will be imple­ment­ed as an online elec­tion. The date of the announce­ment of the elec­tion results is yet to be announced.

Who or what is chosen?

The Stu­Pa rep­re­sents the deci­sions of all stu­dents of the HHN. In total, the par­lia­ment con­sists of 28 stu­dent rep­re­sen­ta­tives (14 direct man­dates, 7 stu­dent sen­ate mem­bers, 7 rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the faculties).

In essence, the work of the Stu­Pa con­sists of co-deter­min­ing the course of the stu­dent body’s high­er edu­ca­tion pol­i­cy, nego­ti­at­ing var­i­ous motions, and adopt­ing statutes, reg­u­la­tions, and guidelines.

The term of office is one year: from 01.10.2023 to 30.09.2024.

The fol­low­ing top­ics, for exam­ple, are passed in the Sen­ate: Basic Reg­u­la­tions of the HHN, study con­tents and exam­i­na­tion reg­u­la­tions, struc­tur­al and devel­op­ment plan­ning. Anoth­er impor­tant task of the sen­ate is the elec­tion of the rector.

The sen­ate con­sists of offi­cial mem­bers (5 from the rec­torate, 1 equal oppor­tu­ni­ty rep­re­sen­ta­tive) and elec­toral mem­bers (23 pro­fes­sors*, 8 employ­ees and 8 Stu­dents).

The term of office is one year: from 01.10.2023 to 30.09.2024.

Each fac­ul­ty has its own small sen­ate, the fac­ul­ty coun­cil. Among oth­er things, deci­sions are made here about study con­tent and exam­i­na­tion reg­u­la­tions, the dis­tri­b­u­tion of funds and the appoint­ment of new professors.

The Fac­ul­ty Coun­cil con­sists of all pro­fes­sors of the respec­tive fac­ul­ty and 6 or 13 elect­ed staff mem­bers and students.

The term of office is one year: from 01.10.2023 to 30.09.2024.

The Stu­dent Coun­cil rep­re­sents the stu­dents of the respec­tive fac­ul­ty at the fac­ul­ty lev­el, advo­cates for you in the Fac­ul­ty Coun­cil as well as with pro­fes­sors and lec­tur­ers, and ensures that deci­sions of the Stu­Pa are imple­ment­ed in the Stu­dent Council. 

In addi­tion, he often plans with the respec­tive stu­dent asso­ci­a­tion, inter­nal depart­men­tal events such as small par­ties, first semes­ter wel­comes, excur­sions, etc..

The term of office is one year: from 01.10.2023 to 30.09.2024.

Elec­tion process: online elections

The elec­tions will be online held. This means that you cast your vote elec­tron­i­cal­ly. You can do this via the Elec­tion por­tal on the HHN intranet by cre­at­ing an elec­tron­ic bal­lot and use it.

The legit­i­ma­tion at the elec­tion serv­er takes place via a user-spe­cif­ic secure link from the intranet.

In order to log in to the vot­ing por­tal, you must enter your per­son­al HHN user* account of the “new world (user­name, pass­word and pos­si­bly an addi­tion­al authen­ti­ca­tion by a sec­ond factor).

When you come from out­side the uni­ver­si­ty net­work to access the elec­tion por­tal, you must have a VPN con­nec­tion (be sure to use eduVPN).

Announce­ment of the elec­tion results

After the con­tract­ed ser­vice provider and the elec­tion man­age­ment have count­ed the bal­lots from the online elec­tions, the elec­tion com­mit­tee deter­mines how the seats will be dis­trib­uted. Then the elec­tion results are deter­mined and pub­licly announced. The exact date for the meet­ing of the elec­tion com­mit­tee at which this will take place is yet to be announced.

Stu­dent elec­tions: stand for elec­tion and nominations

Why YOU should stand for election

It’s sim­ple: to make a dif­fer­ence, to improve your stud­ies, to have a say in what funds should be used for, … 

There are many rea­sons why you should stand for elec­tion. But the most impor­tant one is: To have a say and to decide! To be able to live out democracy!

Stu­dent elec­tions: Elec­tion proposals

Two ways of sub­mit­ting the elec­tion pro­pos­als are offered:

Paper bal­lot pro­pos­als may be placed in one of the fol­low­ing mailboxes:

  • Cam­pus Son­theim: Mail­box at the main entrance of build­ing A
  • Bil­dungscam­pus: Mail­box at the main entrance of build­ing N
  • Künzel­sau Cam­pus: Mail­box at Build­ing G
  • Schwäbisch Hall Cam­pus: Mail­box Ziegelei­weg 4

A spe­cif­ic form is required for the paper form. The forms required for this can be obtained in advance from the elec­tion man­age­ment (wahlleitungasta.hs-heilbronn.de) must be request­ed. In this case, an addi­tion­al dec­la­ra­tion of con­sent must be
be hand­ed in.

Elec­tron­ic “forms” for the elec­tion pro­pos­als will be here in ILIAS is made avail­able to you. The link must be accessed via the uni­ver­si­ty account.

If you would like to ini­ti­ate an elec­tion pro­pos­al in ILIAS, i.e. if you are will­ing to be the rep­re­sen­ta­tive (“list man­ag­er”) of the elec­tion pro­pos­al, please con­tact Ms. Ker­stin Steim­le (kerstin.steimlehs-heilbronn.de). Ms. Steim­le sets up read and write access to the elec­tion pro­pos­al for the list offi­cers and their deputies.


Any­one wish­ing to reg­is­ter as a can­di­date and/or sig­na­to­ry (sup­port­er) in the elec­tion pro­pos­al must do so via their uni­ver­si­ty account. Access via the uni­ver­si­ty account is con­sid­ered the same as a hand­writ­ten sig­na­ture in the paper-based procedure.

It is rec­om­mend­ed that can­di­dates for elec­tion also reg­is­ter as sig­na­to­ries (sup­port­ers) of the elec­tion pro­pos­al in order to achieve the nec­es­sary num­ber of sup­port sig­na­tures. This applies to elec­tion pro­pos­als in paper form as well as to elec­tion pro­pos­als in ILIAS.


Only elec­tion pro­pos­als received by the dead­line can be considered.

The dead­line for sub­mit­ting elec­tion pro­pos­als is on Sun­day 04 June 2023 at 15.00.

The announce­ment of the approved elec­tion pro­pos­als shall be made in the con­text of the elec­tion announce­ment no lat­er than June 13 (Sec­tion 11 of the Elec­tion Reg­u­la­tions) at: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/wahlen.

Student elections

Links & Documents

to the stu­dent parliament:

to the Sen­ate & Fac­ul­ty Council:

Con­tact

Stu­dent Par­lia­ment Elec­tions:
Lennart Kremp (wahlleitungasta.hs-heilbronn.de)

Elec­tions to the Sen­ate and Faculty/Staff Coun­cils:
Mar­tin Teltsch­er (martin.teltscherhs-heilbronn.de)

Sum­mer of diversity

In a world where every indi­vid­ual is unique, the ques­tion aris­es: How does exchange and togeth­er­ness work? How can we ensure that every­one can par­tic­i­pate on an equal foot­ing? The answer to this lies in diver­si­ty. Under the mot­to “Sum­mer of Diver­si­ty,” the adi.hn (Anti-Dis­crim­i­na­tion Office Heil­bronn) in coop­er­a­tion with Coop­er­a­tion part­ners from the city and dis­trict of Heil­bronn again this year var­i­ous aspects of diver­si­ty in every­day life.

From 16 June 2023 to 09 July 2023 the “Sum­mer of Diver­si­ty” cor­dial­ly invites every­one to the series of events. The var­ied pro­gram offers some­thing for every­one: from infor­ma­tive events and culi­nary high­lights to fun, get­ting to know each oth­er, spir­it­ed dis­cus­sions, sports activ­i­ties, music and much more.

The Sum­mer of Diver­si­ty offers a plat­form for peo­ple of all back­grounds to meet, talk to each oth­er and dive into the thought worlds of oth­ers togeth­er. It is about over­com­ing bound­aries and break­ing down prej­u­dices. By shar­ing expe­ri­ences and per­spec­tives, a space is cre­at­ed in which all voic­es are heard and valued.

The series of events not only offers a col­or­ful enter­tain­ment pro­gram, but also pro­motes under­stand­ing and sen­si­tiv­i­ty for dif­fer­ent real­i­ties of life. Work­shops and lec­tures enable par­tic­i­pants to expand their knowl­edge. Thus, they deal with rel­e­vant top­ics such as dis­crim­i­na­tion, racism, LGBTQ+ rights, inclu­sion and many oth­er areas of diversity.

The “Sum­mer of Diver­si­ty” is an invi­ta­tion to ques­tion one’s own ideas and open up to new per­spec­tives. It is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to broad­en one’s own under­stand­ing of diver­si­ty and to rec­og­nize that every indi­vid­ual is a valu­able asset to our society.

adi.hn and its coop­er­a­tion part­ners are look­ing for­ward to an excit­ing and enrich­ing series of events. This will help to cel­e­brate and hon­or diver­si­ty in Heil­bronn and the sur­round­ing area. The “Sum­mer of Diver­si­ty” is a step towards an inclu­sive and respect­ful soci­ety. A soci­ety in which every­one has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to raise their voice and be heard.

Flyer Summer of Diversity

Event infor­ma­tion

Writ­ing Work­shop: The Fairy Tale of Ascent

Invi­ta­tion to a cre­ative explo­ration of the top­ic of equal oppor­tu­ni­ties. Writer and coach Pauline Füg intro­duces the world of cre­ative writ­ing with the aim of mak­ing inequal­i­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty vis­i­ble through the play­ful and cre­ative devel­op­ment of texts.

Heil­bronn Folk Festival

From 7 to 16 July 2023 the Heil­bronn Folk Fes­ti­val opens its doors once again and attracts vis­i­tors from near and far. With excit­ing rides like the Thun­der Road and The Real Shake, the fes­ti­val is sure to put a big grin on the faces of adren­a­line junkies. But those who want to take it a lit­tle eas­i­er won’t miss out either. With around 100 attrac­tions, there is some­thing for all ages.

In addi­tion, the fes­ti­val also offers plen­ty of enter­tain­ment away from the action. In the com­fort­ably fur­nished Göck­e­les­maier fes­ti­val tent, vis­i­tors can expect a col­or­ful stage pro­gram with a mix­ture of tra­di­tion, enjoy­ment and par­ty. The fes­ti­val tent offers space for 3,000 peo­ple and attracts not only with crispy grilled Göck­ele, but also with fresh­ly tapped Volks­fest beer from the Löwen­brauerei Hall. Those who pre­fer to sam­ple oth­er culi­nary delights will also find what they are look­ing for. Burg­ers and veg­e­tar­i­an dish­es are also on the menu.

Folk festival
Image from Frank at Pix­abay

Actions at the Heil­bronn Folk Festival

In addi­tion to the rides and the fes­ti­val tent, there are also some spe­cial pro­mo­tions that make the Heil­bronn Folk Fes­ti­val even more attrac­tive. On Mon­day, July 10, from 6 p.m. to mid­night, guests can enjoy “Maier’s clos­ing time“book a table includ­ing 10 half Göck­ele and 10 mea­sures of beer at the reduced price of only 147 € instead of 197 € (plus ser­vice charge). This means a sav­ing of 50 €.

Also on Mon­day, July 10, is HNV Day, when all HNV sub­scribers and tick­et hold­ers can enjoy great dis­counts through­out the fair­grounds from 3 to 7 p.m.

On Wednes­day, July 12, from 2 p.m. to mid­night, vis­i­tors can ben­e­fit from great­ly reduced prices on the entire fes­ti­val site dur­ing the “Sav­ings Day for All”. In addi­tion, a spe­cial children’s pro­gram will take place in the mar­quee from 4 to 5 pm.

There is a spe­cial offer for stu­dents and trainees on Fri­day, July 14, from 5 to 10 pm. They can enjoy 2 Maß beer for only 12 euros (plus € 0.90 ser­vice charge per Maß). Pre-reg­is­tra­tion on Face­book or a stu­dent ID or trainee ID at the counter on site is required.

In addi­tion to the numer­ous actions, the music pro­gram also pro­vides the best enter­tain­ment. From BAYERNMÄN on July 7 and 8 about ATEMLOS on July 9 and 12 up to HAUTNAH on July 10 and 11 and GRUMIS from 13 to 16 July is pro­vid­ed for musi­cal variety.

The Heil­bronn Folk Fes­ti­val promis­es ten days of fun, action and enjoy­ment for the whole fam­i­ly. Whether on the excit­ing rides, while feast­ing in the fes­ti­val tent or at the var­i­ous activ­i­ties — every­one gets their money’s worth here.

Overview of the actions at the Heil­bronn Folk Festival

  • Maiers Feier­abend: Mon­day, July 10 (Book­able in advance until July 3)
  • Ride & Save: Mon­day, July 10 (for HNV sub­scribers and tick­et hold­ers from 3 — 7 p.m.)
  • Sav­ings day for all: Wednes­day, July 12 (reduced prices on the fair­ground from 2 p.m. — mid­night, children’s pro­gram in the mar­quee from 4 p.m. — 5 p.m.)
  • Stu­dents & Trainees Evening: Fri­day, July 14 (2 Maß Bier for 12 Euro from 5 — 10 p.m., with pre-reg­is­tra­tion on Face­book or with stu­dent ID or trainee proof).

Open­ing hours of the fes­ti­val tent at the Heil­bronn Folk Festival

  • Fri­day, July 7 from 4 pm 
  • Mon­day to Thurs­day from 12 to 24
  • Sat­ur­day, July 8 & 15 from 12 to 00:30
  • Sun­day, July 9 & 16 from 11:30 a.m. to midnight
  • Fri­day, July 14 from 12 to 00:30

Deutsch­land­stipendi­um: Appli­ca­tion dead­line extend­ed to June 14, 2023

The month is com­ing to an end and so is your cash? A few hun­dred euros more a month would­n’t be bad? Then take a look at the Deutsch­land­stipendi­um — it’s worth a look.

The Deutsch­land­stipendi­um is finan­cial sup­port for stu­dents who have achieved out­stand­ing aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance, who are par­tic­u­lar­ly com­mit­ted to vol­un­tary work or who are study­ing under dif­fi­cult con­di­tions. It is award­ed regard­less of the student’s par­ents’ income and nation­al­i­ty and amounts to 300 euros per month.

The advan­tage of the Deutsch­land­stipendi­um is not only the finan­cial sup­port, but also the asso­ci­at­ed recog­ni­tion and appre­ci­a­tion of your achieve­ments. You can also net­work with oth­er schol­ar­ship hold­ers and ben­e­fit from their expe­ri­ence and contacts.

Appli­ca­tion phase for 2023/2024

The Deutsch­land­stipendi­um is an ini­tia­tive of the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research.

From 01.05.2023 until 31.05.2023 14.06.2023 stu­dents and prospec­tive first-semes­ter stu­dents at our uni­ver­si­ty can apply for a Ger­many Schol­ar­ship in the aca­d­e­m­ic year 2023/2024. The month­ly sub­sidy is 300 €.

Spon­sor­ship is pro­vid­ed to com­mit­ted, tal­ent­ed and high-achiev­ing stu­dents at Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty in the Bach­e­lor- and Master’s Degree.  In addi­tion to per­for­mance, the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria will be considered:

  • social com­mit­ment
  • spe­cial fam­i­ly or
  • per­son­al circumstances

Require­ments for the appli­ca­tion for the Deutschlandstipendium

  • for Prospec­tive stu­dents: par­tic­u­lar­ly good aver­age grade of the uni­ver­si­ty entrance qual­i­fi­ca­tion with spe­cial con­sid­er­a­tion of the indi­vid­ual grades rel­e­vant to the cho­sen field of study.
  • for already enrolled Bach­e­lor stu­dents: Proof of par­tic­u­lar­ly good aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance by means of a cur­rent grade report.
  • for already enrolled Master’s stu­dents: par­tic­u­lar­ly good final grade of the pre­vi­ous stud­ies as well as proof of the par­tic­u­lar­ly good study per­for­mance by means of a cur­rent grade report.

The appli­ca­tion takes place exclu­sive­ly online. 

Uni­ver­si­ty Elec­tion: Re-elec­tion of the chan­cel­lor Christoph Schwerdtfeger

The re-elec­tion of Christoph Schw­erdt­feger as Chan­cel­lor of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty promis­es con­ti­nu­ity and sta­bil­i­ty for the com­ing years. With his expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in admin­is­tra­tion, he will con­tin­ue to dri­ve for­ward the mod­ern­iza­tion of the uni­ver­si­ty and con­tin­ue the coop­er­a­tion with the var­i­ous com­mit­tees. Stu­dents of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty can look for­ward to con­tin­ued lead­er­ship and ded­i­cat­ed sup­port in all aspects of the university.

Christoph Schw­erdt­feger has been re-elect­ed Chan­cel­lor of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty (HHN). The Sen­ate and the Uni­ver­si­ty Coun­cil vot­ed in favor of the 47-year-old lawyer with an absolute major­i­ty in the first round of vot­ing. This means that Schw­erdt­feger will begin his sec­ond term in office on Octo­ber 1, 2023.

Fol­low­ing his re-elec­tion, Chan­cel­lor Schw­erdt­feger thanked the com­mit­tees for the trust they had placed in him and for their broad sup­port. He looked for­ward to the com­ing years and empha­sized the impor­tance of con­tin­ued good and trust­ing coop­er­a­tion. Dr. Anke Rig­bers, Chair of the Uni­ver­si­ty Coun­cil, con­grat­u­lat­ed Schw­erdt­feger warm­ly and looks for­ward to con­tin­u­ing the coop­er­a­tion. She sees the suc­cess­ful re-elec­tion as an oppor­tu­ni­ty for Schw­erdt­feger to con­tin­ue his work to mod­ern­ize the admin­is­tra­tion. Pro­fes­sor Oliv­er Lenzen, Rec­tor of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty, also praised Schw­erdt­feger as an extreme­ly ded­i­cat­ed, com­pe­tent and straight­for­ward per­son­al­i­ty and empha­sized his out­stand­ing achieve­ments in the Chancellor’s Office.

Schw­erdt­feger has already been in charge of var­i­ous busi­ness units and cen­tral facil­i­ties at Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty since 2017. As a mem­ber of the rec­torate, he is part of the university’s man­age­ment and is respon­si­ble for the bud­get, real estate, and legal and admin­is­tra­tive tasks. His sec­ond term of office is for eight years, as stip­u­lat­ed in the Baden-Würt­tem­berg State High­er Edu­ca­tion Act.

Re-election
Christoph Schw­erdt­feger and Dr. Anke Rigbers

About the person

Born in Göt­tin­gen, he stud­ied law at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Freiburg and Paris as well as Con­stance. After com­plet­ing his legal train­ing in 2002, Schw­erdt­feger worked for sev­er­al years as an admin­is­tra­tive assis­tant at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­stance. In 2006, he joined the man­age­ment con­sul­tan­cy McK­in­sey & Co. in Stuttgart for six years. He then worked as a unit man­ag­er at the Baden-Würt­tem­berg Min­istry of Finance. In 2017, Schw­erdt­feger was elect­ed Chan­cel­lor of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty for the first time, and his re-elec­tion in May 2023 will mark the begin­ning of his sec­ond term.