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SaarTex: A Thesis Template

For all of you who are writing or will soon be writing your thesis, we have good news: You can use the SaarTex LaTeX template to get started right away and not have to worry about structure, typography, the right BibLaTeX configuration etc. first. The template is available free of charge for all members of the faculty.

Features:

  • Bilingual: Both English and German are supported.
  • Structured: Includes a title page, table of contents, affidavit, bibliography and appendix. The structure is of course customizable.
  • Choose between our title page and other templates.
  • For students of computer science and mathematics.
  • Typographic best practices

Sample documents are of course also available:

We want feedback!

Have you used our template and have feedback? Then please contact us or create issues in the Gitlab repository!

By the way: We also have templates for exercise sheets. If you have your own templates and would like to make them available to your fellow students, please contact us!

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Transparency on our own behalf: “Fachschaftseuro”

It may has gone unnoticed by most of you, but the last year brought a big change for Students’ Councils: The informally called “Fachschaftseuro” (“Students’ Council Euro”), gave Students’ Councils from all fields of studies new and better ways to organize and finance events for their students.

What does that mean specifically? As you all know, you have to pay the Semesterbeitrag for each semester you are studying here at university. A small portion of that is a contribution to the general students body (“allgemeiner Studierendenbeitrag”); currently this contribution is 13€ per semester. This contribution goes into the students’ body funds and is administered by the StuPa (Student Parliament).

Since the last year, Students’ Council can request funds from thus money to organize their events. How much exactly can they sue? This mainly depends on the number of students, that a Students’ Council represents and is regulated by the Fachschaftsetat. In short: Each council gets a base amount of 200€ plus an additional 0,66€ for each student in their main subject. There are slightly differing amounts e.g. for teaching students as they are represented by multiple Students’ Councils.

We also made use of this founds throughout the last year to finance some of our events for you. In total, we used 1,525.98 € in the year 2023. We want to be fully transparent about our usage of these funds. Therefore, we have created a small summary into which events these funds went:

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RindPhi Quiz Night March 2024

The RindPhi Quiz Night once again returns for its fourth iteration, after a short pause. This time, we are hosted by the Heimbar of the Rotenberg Dormitory [1]. The Quiz Night happens there on March 08th. As per usual you can join up in teams of up to 6 persons.

In this Quiz Night you can join together as a team with your friends and challenge your fellow students and other participating teams in a competition for knowledge, wisdom and honor. Our moderator will challenge your minds in four exciting categories!

As usual, the winning team claims the reward of a 20€ iCoffee Gift card!

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To all students: General Assembly!

A general assembly of the student body is an event that does not happen every day. But this is exactly why it is all the more important that it’s happening again now: the AStA has announced that there will be an assembly on the future of the semester ticket and a potential switch to the Deutschlandticket.

This is certainly a very relevant date for all those who regularly use public transport to get to university, but all students are invited! Of course, participation is voluntary.

  • When: 31st January 2024 18:30
  • Where: E2.2 (Günther-Hotz-Hörsaal, GHH)
  • Online: According to the AStA yes, but more information will follow soon
  • Language: German only, but the AStA promised to provide english summaries
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Niko-Fete 2023

We are happy to invite you all to this years Niko-Fete, our traditional Christmas Party!

This party takes place on December 6th, starting at 10AM in our rooms (E1.3 R109). As opposed to our breakfasts, this time we offer, fitting to the christmas theme, hot mulled wine (also without alcohol), hot chocolate. Additionally we will have freshly baked waffles and Crêpes with various toppings available! Of course we will also have a variety of christmas-themed snacks for you!

Like all our events, the Niko-Fete is completely free for all our students. However, we would still appreciate a small donation that will go toward a good cause. In this year, all your donations will go to the Tafel Saarbrücken (Food bank) and the Kältebus Saabrücken (Shelter for homeless people)

We are very happy that itestra is sponsoring this event and will even be present at the event! If you are looking for a job, no matter whether it is during your studies or afterwards, consider checking our the website of itestra. Alternatively you can also get in touch with them directly as they will present during the Niko-Fete with two Software Engineers!

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