Hardship provision: caring for a child up to the age of 14 in your own household
Hardship provision: caring for a child up to the age of 14 in your own household
Summer semester 2026
If you are looking after one or more children up to the age of 14 in your own household, please proceed as follows to register for German Studies courses:
- Please send in the period from 22.01.2026 to 21.02.2026 at the latest i.e. before the start of registration for the courses, send an email to with the subject "Hardship application" in which
- you informally request that the "child-raising" hardship provision be applied to you;
- you state your Stud.IP user name. Please note: this is not your email address. Rather, you will find the user name when you log into Stud.IP, click on "Profile" and then on "Personal details". It has the form of "EMustermann" or "EMustermann1". The user name is required so that we can clearly identify you in Stud.IP.
- Be sure to attach a file with a scanned or photographed birth certificate of your youngest child (younger than 15 years on 1 April 2025!) to this email. The submitted documents will of course be treated confidentially and will be destroyed immediately upon receipt.
- Please note: Incomplete and late proposals cannot be considered!
Otherwise, please enrol for the German Studies courses as normal(see notes here). You will be included in a list in Stud.IP that is not visible to the outside world and this will be added to the registration procedure in such a way that your enrolment requests (see description of registration procedure) will be given top priority.
Please attach only the above-mentioned documents to your proposal. The submission of your preferred courses has become obsolete with the new procedure!
A new proposal must be submitted for each semester!
Please note:
There is no general entitlement to consideration of the hardship application; it depends, among other things, on the available capacities in the courses.
The application applies to German Studies courses that take place in the degree programmes offered by the subject. For other subjects, please enquire about the regulations in the respective subject or School. (All relevant information for the educational science modules in the PB can be found at https://uol.de/fk1/studium/bildungswissenschaftliches-curriculum/organisation-der-module.