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Everything you always wanted to know as a PhD-student to make your doctorate easier is compiled here!

Fast cafeteria food

Enrolled PhD-students can activate their Unicard for the Mensa staff meal. The staff meal is located in the Rempartstraße canteen next to the weekly meal. The queue is usually shorter there and you can fill your plate yourself. And best of all: as enrolled PhD-students, we still only pay the student price.

  • At the service/info point in the canteen, the person responsible can activate the staff meal for doctoral students. All you need is your Uni-Card.
  • After activation, you can get meal 1 and 2 at the student price at the staff meal.
  • Please note: When paying at the checkout, the higher price for externals always appears, but only the price for students should be charged. Pay attention to this the first time!  

Longer loan periods at the University Library

PhD-students can apply for the so-called semester loan at the University Library (UL). With semester loans, books are automatically renewed up to five times.      

  • Please send an email with your name, matriculation number and UL number to info@ub.uni-freiburg.de with the request to activate the lecturer loan/semester loan for PhD-students.
  • The head of the lending service (Regina Flamm) will send an information sheet on semester loan if approval is granted.   

Institute email address (incl. external employee account)

  • PhD-students who do not have a contract with the University can apply for a Uniaccount as an external employee via the following link: https://www.rz.uni-freiburg.de/inhalt/dokumente/pdfs/formulare/erstantrag/view
  • The application must be completed with the secretariat of the respective institute. The secretariat will then send the application.
  • Once the application has been approved, the secretary's office will receive a letter from the computer center containing the new user ID (initials and four digits) and an initial password.
  • You can now log in to myAccount (https://myaccount.uni-freiburg.de/uadmin/login) using the user ID and the initial password.
  • Next, a new password must be created. The external employee account is then set up.      
  • After logging in to myAccount, a university mail account with the institute domain can be created under the tab "Mail- and list administration / Mail accounts".
  • If you want to have access to the intranet an informal e-mail can be sent to intranet-tickets@mail.uni-freiburg.de briefly explaining why and for how long access is required.

Workspaces for PhD-students