Faculty of
Life Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences

The Hamburg government's emergency corona loans for students (Hamburger Corona Notfalldarlehen für Studierende) provide quick interim funding for students who can demonstrate financial need and are not able to obtain adequate support through the corona assistance and support programmes provided by the federal government and the City of Hamburg.

You can find more information on the Studierendenwerk Hamburg website.

The faculty is working to provide all students with information and planning security regarding examinations. We will keep you informed about updates on our website and per mail.

Please be sure to read your emails regularly!

Due to the current situation, final theses can only be submitted in hard copy by mail. Please send them on time via registered mail, together with a digital version of your thesis on a storage device (CD, SD card, USB stick) and the examination file (Prüfakte, consisting of five documents) to the following address:

HAW Hamburg
Fakultät Life Sciences
Fakultätservicebüro
Ulmenliet 20 
21033 Hamburg

The date of submission is the postmark date (as listed on the postal receipt). This makes clear that the deadline was met, even if processing on our end takes longer! Please be sure to keep your postal service receipt!

Application documents can be submitted digitally to the chair of the responsible examination board.

You must sign the documents and obtain the reviewers' signatures before submitting your application. This can also be done digitally (with scans or photographs). The submission deadlines will be determined by the chairs of the examination boards.

All final theses registered after 23 March 2020 will be assigned the usual deadlines by the examination board chair. Depending on how the situation develops, the possibility of extending these deadlines may be considered. 

We ask for your understanding and patience. The university will aim to limit disadvantages resulting from the current situation to the greatest extent possible.

We are currently unable to hand out graduation documents and certificates in person. If you require these, please send an email with your mailing address to the Faculty Service Office. Provided that the documents have already been completed and signed (in which case you will have a received a message from us), we will send them to you by mail.

If the graduation documents have not yet been completed, we ask for your patience.

You can send us the checklist via regular mail or email. We will circulate it via our internal mail system.

If you are worried that you will not be permitted to take an exam because you have not been able to complete some of the prerequisites in this semester, please contact the chair of the examination board for your degree course.

You can send copies of all applications, forms, etc. via email or the original documents via regular mail. If you send documents via email, please keep the originals in case they need to be submitted at a later date.

If you need the signatures of instructors or professors, please contact these people directly before sending your documents to the Faculty Service Office. You can arrange this via email.

Our contact information and office hours are listed below under 'How to contact us'.

Please note that we are currently operating at very limited capacity. This means that much of the information on the other Faculty Service Office pages is not up to date (e.g. information about picking up marked exams, etc.).