Temporary curfew due to the Corona pandemic (March 20, 2020) Implementation of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG) Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has spread worldwide in a short period of time Every effort must be made to prevent further spread. On the basis of the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family for infection protection measures to be ordered nationwide in accordance with § 54 of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG) in conjunction with § 1 para. 2 of the Ordinance on the Responsibilities under the Infection Protection Act of 12 September 2016 (AmtsBl. I p. 856), the following is issued on the basis of § 28 para. 1 sentence 2 IfSG in agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport General ruling Everyone is encouraged to reduce physical and social contact with other people outside the members of their own household to an absolute minimum. Wherever possible, a minimum distance between two persons of 2 m must be maintained. Restaurants according to the Saarland Restaurant Act and other catering establishments of any kind are prohibited. Excluded is the pick-up and delivery of takeaway food. Leaving one’s own home is only permitted if there are good reasons. Good reasons are in particular: the exercise of professional activities, the use of emergency care or the passing of examinations, the use of medical and veterinary care (e.g. visits doctors, medical treatment; blood donations are expressly permitted) and visits to members of the assisting professions where this is medically necessary (e.g. psycho- and physiotherapists) supply routes for the elementary basic needs of daily life (e.g. going to grocery stores, weekly markets, beverage markets, pet shops, DIY stores, garden centres, mail and packet shipping businesses, pharmacies, drugstores, medical supply stores, opticians, hearing aid acousticians, banks […]
Dear students of the Computer Science department,As you might have read, the university is going to be closed, effective tomorrow, Tuesday 17 March, as a response to the pandemic. The official message from the University President is copied below. With this e-mail, we would like to inform you about how the closing affects exams and ongoing courses. Classroom teaching and study will not take place until 04 May 2020 in order to counteract the further spread of the coronavirus. If you participate in an ongoing course or seminar, your instructor will inform you whether the course will transition to an online format. Examinations that require the student’s attendance at the university will not take place at least until 24 April 2020. This implies that all written exams will be postponed to a later date. In due time, the instructors of courses with postponed exams will contact their students with updates on rescheduling of the exam. In urgent individual cases, the examiners may decide in agreement with the students concerned whether an oral examination may be conducted via video conference. Please contact the instructor of a given course if your individual case does not allow you to wait for the results of an exam that is re-scheduled at a date after 24 April. The processing times of ongoing qualification papers (such as term papers, Bachelor’s thesis, Master’s thesis, state examination thesis) will be adjusted. I.e., your deadline for submission of your thesis will be postponed according to the closing period. If you want to submit a thesis during the closing, please send an electronic version in PDF format to the examination office and to your reviewers. You will have to hand in the written copies, following the usual procedure, after re opening of the university. Regarding the upcoming summer semester, we have the […]
1) The start of lectures in the coming summer semester will be postponed from April 6 to May 4, 2020 without the lecture period being extended. 2) People with residence or permanent residence in the risk areas of the coronavirus identified by the Robert Koch Institute (https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Risikogebiete.html), last expanded to include French region of Grand Est, access to the university’s locations is not permitted until further notice. Persons returning from one of the risk areas continue to be required to be absent for 14 days from the university’s locations. 3) The examination office and the study coordination of the Computer Science Programmes and the GradSchool will only offer personal consultation if it is absolutely necessary. The regular office hours will not take place until further notice. Matters and possible appointments should be discussed via email or phone (see contacts on www.ps-mint.uni-saarland.de) for the examination office or via mail (studium@cs.uni-saarland.de) for the study coordination. After this, you will be informed about further procedure. You will find a summary of the most frequently asked questions and answers (FAQ) on the topic on the UdS website. You are welcome to send inquiries and comments to krisenstab@uni-saarland.de.
