student representatives

Student representatives can be found in the following areas of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences:

• on Faculty Councils
• in Faculty Student Committees
• in the Senate
• in the Extended Senate

The university’s Student Council is composed of representatives from the Faculty Student Committees. As a body representing the student body, it advocates for the interests of the student body as a sub-body of the university with legal capacity and is responsible for student affairs university-wide.

All students in a faculty (and in some cases, a department) form the student council. As a representative body, the students can elect a Faculty Student Committee. The Faculty Student Committee represents the interests of its students and, to that end, elects student members to the Faculty Council, the Study Commission, and the examination and practical training committee. The Faculty Student Committees of the university form the university’s Student Council. Active participation as an elected student representative may result in recognition of an extended standard period of study.