Social Counseling

Please see at the top of the page for current consultation hours. The notarizations take usually place between 12 and 1 p.m. Monday to Friday, if consultations take place.

We provide official certifications of documents ( for free) for students enrolled at the University of Bonn, on the condition that they must be related to their studies (e.g. high school diplomas, internship certificates, degree certificates from other universities, language diplomas). Even if you are not yet enrolled at the University of Bonn and need the certified copies for enrollment, the copies can be certified by us. We also certify degree certificates from the University of Bonn for former students.

Please remember: If you would like to have copies of your "Transcript of Records" notarized, the printout from BASIS must first be validated by the Examination Office, only then is it a valid document. You can then make copies of these and bring them along with the stamped original for certification.

We can accept and certify documents in German, English and French. For other languages, the original documents must be translated and certified by an official translation agency or embassy and must be submitted together with the certified translation.

We are not allowed to notarize civil status documents such as birth and marriage certificates. We are also not allowed to notarize German identity cards and passports.

Please bring both copies and originals. The original document and its copy must always be provided. The copy must also include the back of the original document, even if there are only a few characters and it seems unimportant. It is not possible to copy documents in the AStA. Copies are not allowed to be stapled. Please also pre-sort your documents to avoid delays.

If you are unable to come to the AStA in person during the notarization times, it is not a problem for you to ask someone else to do it and have them come by with your documents.

We notarize a maximum of 10 documents for one person per day.

The AStA is not liable for any disadvantages resulting from certifications not received in time or from the non-immediate recognition of our certifications by other authorities. You are therefore requested to have them notarized in advance to avoid inconvenience and long waiting times shortly before an application deadline.

With the "Freitisch" offer, we provide students who are in financial need with the opportunity to eat without charge in the canteens of the Studierendenwerk Bonn.

In order to receive the "Freitisch", you must submit your currently valid student ID, your currently valid ID card and your bank statements for the current month and the previous month.
Applications should be sent by email to: freitisch@asta.uni-bonn.de

If you are a first-year student, find yourself in a financial emergency and cannot afford your semester fees, then this financial start-up aid will help you out of a jam.

In order to receive the semester start-up grant, you must submit your certificate of enrollment/admission, your passport and all bank statements for the last three months (without any gaps).
Applications should be sent by email to: vorsitz@asta.uni-bonn.de

If you are in financial need, the HiFo can help you. The HiFo is a loan fund of the student body of the University of Bonn. A committee of the student parliament decides on the approval of applications.

The BAföG advice service will help you with problems and questions relating to BAföG (Federal Educational Assistance Act).

If you are in financial need, already have a ticket valid in the area covered by the semester ticket or are outside the area covered by the semester ticket due to your studies, for example, you can apply for a refund from the Semester Ticket Committee of the student parliament.

The various social welfare organizations in Bonn and the region also have offers on a wide range of topics, such as housing, finances, education, integration, addiction help and many more.

Under certain conditions, people whose primary residence is Bonn receive a "Bonn-Ausweis" card. This entitles them to discounts on certain services.

If you are not entitled to BAföG you can apply for "Wohngeld", even when being a student! All information around the application itself, requirements for application and amount of Wohngeld you can possibly get: click here. A PDF summary is available here.

You can apply for student housing via online application here (Studierendenwerke Bonn). Please note that the waiting lists are long and it may take a while until you get a reply. It is also recommended to go to the office hours directly or give them a call.

There are some private apartments on offer in two showcases at the lower entrance to Mensa CAMPO (Poppelsdorf). You can also keep an eye out for new offers here, maybe there is something suitable.

You can find the website for the halls of residence sorted by district here:

(No guarantee for completeness)

Particularly helpful is the search engine for dormitories on Study-in of the DAAD.

MiWo, FAUSA, wrh, Wohnbau, LEG, Rheinhaus, Viva West, WG-gesucht, Zimmerfrei Bonn, studenten-wg, bonn.studenten-wg, Immobilienscout24, kalaydo.de, gimmo.de, Wohnungsbörse, Immonet...
or via these Facebook pages WG-gesucht Bonn, WG Zimmer frei Bonn.

Couchsurfing is a free possibility to find a place to stay for the first few nights in Bonn. Max Hostel in the Altstadt Bonn, Basecamp Bonn and the "Jugendherberge am Venusberg" are cheap Plan Bs, the GZ Hotel Bonn, and the Bonnox are also good recommended places to stay in Bonn.

You're on an internship in Bonn or you're here for a semester/year abroad or just passing through on travels around Germany? These links to pages may help you find a place to stay for a few days/few weeks or a few monts! zwischenmiete.de, tempoflat.de, zeitwohnen.de. The Facebook groups mentioned below are also a good way to find apartments or rooms. Apart from that you may be lucky via ebay-Kleinanzeigen. We wish you good luck!

The University of Bonn also offers helpful links to pages or advice under the following link Wohnen in Bonn.

When it comes to finding accommodation, student fraternities should be mentioned separately, as they sometimes try to conceal their affiliation in an almost criminal manner. For example, you can find online housing offers that are surprisingly cheap, mostly restricted to men and often illustrated with spacious common rooms. Sometimes there are several advertisements for the same property, one of which omits the common rooms and address in order to conceal the affiliation to the association.

Once you have moved in, they deliberately play down the situation and try to tie the new flatmates down. In this way, the continued tenancy is made dependent on joining the association. It often becomes painfully clear to people as soon as they no longer want to have anything to do with a sorority that sororities often want to be a bond for life and that leaving provokes ostracism, loss of housing and often verbal and physical attacks.

Weitere Infos zu Burschenschaften und Verbindungen und warum sie kritisch zu betrachten sind, findet ihr hier.

With the scholarship reader you can get an overview of the existing scholarships, their target groups and requirements. Feel free to read it and don't be afraid to apply.

In addition to the many general job portals on the Internet, the University and the Studierendenwerk also have a job portal where you can look at advertised positions: