Freshmen’s Welcome Week
The Welcome Week for summer semester 2025 will be taking place on-site from April 2nd to 4th. The schedule will be published soon.. We recommend you to check this webpage frequently for updates.
All activities are voluntary, but we recommend participating to get to know the university, your fellow students, and get help regarding your schedule and other organizational tasks.
Schedule
Wednesday, 02.04.2025
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
US-C 116
Welcome by Dean for Teaching
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Strina
Get to know your Academic Advisor, your tutors and the Student Representative Council (FSR). - 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
In front of the library
First Steps in Siegen
Campus tour, Get together - 6:00 p.m.
Bowling
Bowling Arena Siegen, Birlenbacher Hütte 14, 57078 Siegen
Registration via FSR required!
Thursday, 03.04.2025
Please bring your laptop / notebook!
- 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
US-C 115
Unisono: Campus management
Get your studies off to an organised start, we’ll show you how! - 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
US-C 115
ZIMT: Uni-IT
Your digital start at the university, find out everything you need to know. - 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
US-F 103
Kickstart Your Studies! In small groups with your tutors, personal, practical, helpful! - 7:00 p.m.
FSR – Party
Be there or be square!
Fab Lab Siegen, Sandstraße 26, 57072 Siegen
No registration required.
Friday, 04.04.2025
- 12:00 p.m.
Bouldering
Schlüsselstelle Jungs Boulderhalle & Café, Bismarckstraße 81, 57076 Siegen or
Lasertag
Lasertag Arena Siegen, Alcher Str. 53, 57072 Siegen
(Registration via FSR required!) - 7:00 p.m.
Pub Crawl
Discover the Scene!
You can get more information from your tutors.
In case of any other questions, do not hesitate to contact your Academic Advisor.
Here are some important documents and an example schedule for a good start into the HCI programme:
Formular zur Prüfungsanmeldung (German)
Exam registration form (English)
Overview of all current interdisciplinary modules: Interdisciplinary Modules in HCI
Example schedule for your first semester: Example_Timetable_HCI_SS25
Slides from past Welcome Weeks:
1_HCI_Orga_Slides_WS22
2_HCI_Welcome_Slides_WS22
Date: April 2nd to 4th, 2025
Room: tba
Tutor: Shrey Jalote
Our HCI Facebook Group
Orientation
There are several campus locations where the freshmen’s introduction and many courses will be held. The most important one is the Unteres Schloss Campus or US, which is a relatively young campus. We moved here for in winter semester 2014/15 and it’s located in the middle of the city. Here, all of the HCI core and elective lessons will be held. The official direction is Unteres Schloss, 57072 Siegen. Attention! This campus is based on a easily recognizable castle building, as well as the earlier regional hospital, where the HCI is located and is just behind the castle building, on the Kohlbett Street (Kohlbettstr.). You’ll find a map on the right.
Furthermore, there is the Adolf-Reichwein Campus, or AR. It’s the university’s biggest campus where the main cafeteria, Aula Magna, main library, etc. are located. HCI students will attend here, basically, complimentary courses, which are offered by other faculties. The AR campus is located outside of Siegen, on the Haardter Mountain (Haardter Berg). A map showing both the AR and US campus can be found on the right.
Than another Campus you get in touch with sometimes is the Hölderlin Campus (H). You only go there if vacancies with rooms occur, but it happens seldom. Anyhow, the H-Campus is important for it provides you with two CIP-Pools and a lot of other important things like hard- and software if needed at the ZIMT. You’ll find the link here.
Driving Directions
It is highly recommended to drive to the university via public transport (don’t forget your semester transit ticket!) due to little parking lots at the US campus. The AR campus can be reached with the C 111 and C 106 bus lines, whereas during the freshmen’s introduction and lecture season the university express lines UX 1, 2, 3 and 6 will be additionally offered, parting from the Siegen and Siegen-Weidenau train stations. The US campus can be reached on foot in ten minutes from Siegen main station. The „Kölner Tor“ bus station, nevertheless, is some minutes clores to the campus.
You can also get some orientation within Siegen and its campus bus routes through the USi-Bus app.
Freshmen FAQ
At first, it makes life easier to be guided by the order of study. Later on, you can find out which lectures take place and when by taking a look at the lecture timetable online in Unisono (don’t forget to check in the top left hand corner if you have selected the correct semester). You can choose which of the courses to go to and – voilà ! You have put your first timetable together! However, as your HCI tutor will help you to put your timetable together in the course of the introductory week, there is absolutely no need for you to do so before the term begins.