StEP – orientation event for new Students

This is the introductory event for the following study programmes (both Bachelor & Master):

• Computer Science (National & International)
• Bioinformatics
• Mediainformatics
• Embedded Systems
• Cybersecurity (National & International)
• Visual Computing
• Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI)
• Lehramt Informatik

If not, you can find your introductory event on the LSF or on the official website for Bachelors or Masters.

If you are a student in …

• Mathematics and Computer Science (Mathematik und Informatik)
• Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Computerlinguistik

… then you are technically not a part of the CS faculty. You are very much welcome to join, although your faculty probably offers some introductory event as well. Look it up in the LSF!

Are you an Erasmus+ student? Then the StEP is not for you! There will be a completely separate introductory event by the Study Coordination, who you will receive detailed information from.

Yes, we highly recommend attending all presentations targeted at you (i.e. if you are not an international student, you can safely skip presentations marked as for internationals only). But if you are for whatever good reason busy for some hours during StEP, feel free to leave early or rejoin once you have time again – just be quiet when leaving or entering lecture halls.

Keep in mind that the published schedule is subject to change and presentations might be swapped if necessary.

For social events, feel free to only come to those that spark your interest. We aim to offer a wide selection of events, so hopefully some are up to your taste.

That depends on the question. If it is related to organizational things concerning your studies, you should ask your study coordinator. You can always reach out to us and fellow students on our Discord servers:

• The CS Students’ Council Discord
• The largest student-made discord: UdS Sofa

If it is something you’d prefer to ask the council in a more private manner, you can either DM us on Discord or send us a mail to our help address.

Both are introductory events for first term students. Practically all topics will be disjoint. We strongly recommend you to attend both! This time the Welcome Week unfortunately partly overlaps with the StEP. Check out if the Welcome Week presentations will be recorded – if yes, you can watch them later.

The StEP is the general intro event that will introduce you into all aspects of university.

Aside from the StEP, every study course has their own custom welcome event. This is usually a much smaller event (one or two hours or so) where you will be welcomed by a representative of your specific study course. These two have been planned not to overlap, so attend both 🙂

By bus

… on the bus stop “Universität Busterminal”. From there it’s a 5 minute walk to the buildings of the Computer Science department. You can review the current bus schedule at saarfahrplan.de or in the Saarfahrplan App.

Please note, to make use of your „Deutschlandsemesterticket“ you need to obtain it first.

By car

… you can park at the parking lot “Parkhaus Ost”. Please note that there might be parking fees. You can find more information here.

The name originates from the German version of our introductory event, which is called Studierenden Einführungs Phase (which translates roughly as „Introductory phase for students“).

Yes, there will be an estimated schedule here on the website. But, for the sake of transparency: Experience from previous years has shown that we will more often than not not stick to the schedule and will spontaneously postpone things here and there or end the presentations later than indicated. Therefore, please consider the timetable as a reference only!

In case you want to attend the evening events, you should plan for the whole day. The events will be announced here on the website at a later time or during the StEP.