A warm welcome to Emden-Leer University of Applied Sciences! We look forward to welcoming you to our campus university at the start of the 2026/27 winter semester. Right from the start of your studies, the First-Semester Welcome Week will feature important events designed to help you get started and find your way around our beautiful university. We are committed to helping you get off to a good start in your studies, and as a university where everything is close at hand, we are here for you personally.

Your first-semester orientation week begins on September 14, 2026.

The planned schedule for the first-semester welcome day:

• 9:30 a.m. – Arrival on campus
• 11:00 a.m. – Welcome and orientation program for your degree program in Room T141
• 2:00 PM – Central welcome followed by a get-together on campus

Please note the various information and program items for the Freshman Orientation Week, including

• the start of regular lectures on September 28, 2026
• additional events to help you get to know the university and your future classmates.
• the program overview for the first-semester welcome

The exact times and locations will be added here as soon as they are available.

Further program items, as well as event locations and links to online events, are therefore continuously updated on our website for first-semester students: https://www.hs-emden-leer.de/en/university-of-applied-sciences/organization/departments-a-z/student-counselling-service/first-semester-students-1