All students of a subject form the student body. Each subject that can be studied at the University of Oldenburg has a Student council, which is also known colloquially as a student body. Any chemistry student who wants to get involved in a voluntary, social and honorary capacity can become a member of the Chemistry Student Council (or the Chemistry Student Body). The student body is a committee with an unlimited number of members.

The Institute Council deals with all issues that affect the respective Institute, e.g. the range of courses offered, examination and study regulations, funding, personnel decisions (for professorships) and the general content-related orientation of the Institute.

The institute council is made up of the professors' group, the staff group, the MTV group (technical and administrative staff) and the student group. The professors' group always has the majority in this body, i.e. the composition is 4:1:1:1 or 7:2:2:2, depending on the size of the Institute. Decisions on regulations and the range of courses offered must be voted on again in higher committees. You can see who is currently on the institute council here.

The study commission deals with all matters relating to teaching. For example, the course programme for the next semester is agreed here. The StuKo always meets one week before the Faculty Council and makes preliminary decisions, which the Faculty Council should generally abide by.

Each School has a StuKo, which is composed as follows: 2 professors, 2 academic staff and 4 students. The Chair is held by the Dean of Studies, who is also proposed by the StuKo to the Faculty Council for election. The StuKo is the only body in which the students have the same number of votes as the lecturers. The StuKo is therefore one of the few committees in which students can really have a say. It is therefore important to send a representative to the StuKo in addition to the other committees, even if this representative is not currently entitled to vote (see FakKonf).

The student representatives for the StuKo are nominated and elected by the students who have a seat on the Faculty Council. You must therefore contact them if you have someone for the StuKo work.

The Faculty Council of School V is the highest body at faculty level and consists of 13 elected members, including professors (7 seats), staff (2 seats), technical and administrative staff (2 seats) and students (2 seats).

Prof Dr Katharina Al-Shamery is currently elected by the professors from Chemistry. Among the students, the degree programmes of School V (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Environmental Sciences) are represented by two students, as the students only have two seats. Due to agreements between the Student councils, the degree programmes alternate each year with the Chair; at the moment, Mathematics and Biology are elected.

The Faculty Council elections take place annually in January. The tasks of the Faculty Council include, for example, the election of the Dean's Office (the head of the School).

The F3V sees itself as the second major pillar of student self-administration alongside the AStA and StuPa. It is legitimised by the student bodies and their representatives. This means that it also represents those student bodies that do not see themselves represented by the AStA and also guarantees their political independence.

The meeting of the student representatives takes place once a week. At the F3V, information is exchanged, financial applications are submitted and university policy matters are discussed. This meeting of students from different degree programmes and departments makes it possible, among other things, to identify interdisciplinary developments that may remain hidden from the AStA as it is not represented at this level at an early stage. Necessary information work can be coordinated and further steps can be initiated quickly.

It is also possible to coordinate general department-specific work before it is addressed or dealt with at university level. (Examples of this are discussions about Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes, evaluation and ECTS, etc.).

The Faculty Conference serves to improve the exchange between student bodies of a faculty. Representatives of all student bodies of a faculty meet at the Faculty Conference. Furthermore, the student members of the Faculty Council take part in the meeting, report on resolutions passed by the Faculty Council and discuss upcoming resolutions with the others. At the Faculty Conference, they find contact persons to find students for appointments to the study committee or appointment committees. (According to the rotation principle, so that each student body has one vote on the study commission)