Speaker: Kai-Horge Oppermann

Contents

• 15 Federal States organise themselves according to the same constitution, only Bavaria does not join in
• despite differences, in the end it is always a matter of arriving at a council / parliament etc. through elections of various kinds - the differences in wording lead to confusion, better ask around
• Examples of the regulations: Student fee, e.g. 9 euros in Lower Saxony, which is divided into Asta, sports fee, etc.
• Logic
  • Base amount set in statutes for the distribution of money - smaller student bodies are slightly favoured, as there are of course fixed costs that are independent of the size of the School
• Appeal
  • Read your regulations/statutes, as they form the basis of student council work

Three areas at university level:

• 1. faculty council or whatever it is called at the university in question
• 2. e.g. working groups that co-operate with professors etc.
• 3. support associations, university groups, etc.

Statutes can also be confusing, the same statutes can still lead to different procedures - not everything has to be regulated in a statute, it always has to be improvised and discussed.

Questions from the participants

• Question from Bavaria: Are the statutes on how members are elected self-imposed or are they predetermined?
  • Answer: The student body decides for itself

Other questions

• Excursus from Bavaria
  • There, the financing comes from sovereign funds and is allocated to the Schools from tax revenue.
  • The student body is not a legal entity in its own right, the School is managed as a cost centre at the university and invoices are then submitted there