• AFsG
    • General student union funds.
    • Money that each student council receives from the AStA per semester for general work and normal operations.
  • AK
    • Working group.
    • Discussion group with topic-specific objectives on FS-Fahrt or similar.
  • Andrea Frei
    • Student advisory service at GIUB.
  • Student Council
    • General student committee.
    • Organizing, constituent body of the student body; superordinate to the student bodies of all departments of the university.
  • (Study) Advisory Board
    • Advisory board at faculty level for teaching, studies and study contents. Consists of lecturers and students.
  • Appointment committee
    • Commission for the announcement and selection of a new professorship.
  • BFsG
    • Special student union funds.
    • Application to the AStA for larger student council activities that go beyond the usual scope of student council work.
  • BuFaTa
    • Federal Faculty Conference.
    • Meeting of geography student councils from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to exchange information about student council work.
  • Evaluation Commission
    • Institute-internal commission to evaluate and discuss the evaluation results of the courses
  • Section Earth Sciences
    • Committee between the institute and faculty level (meteorology, earth sciences & geography) with elected representatives of the student body, the central administration and the professorship.
  • Department of Student Representation
    • Department of the AStA, where funding applications for student council activities are submitted. Link between student councils and the AStA.
  • Faculty
    • Administrative level of various institutes within the university (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, MNF).
  • Faculty Council
    • Faculty-level committee with representatives of the student body, the central administration, the administration and the professorship.
  • FK
    • Conference of student representatives
    • Conference with representatives of all student councils to coordinate student councils.
  • GD
    • Managing Director of the Institute (currently Prof. Wiegandt).
    • Is elected every 2 years in the board of directors from the ranks of the professorship.
  • GIUB
    • Institute of Geography at the University of Bonn.
  • Habilitation
    • Highest university degree, qualification for professorship and teaching.
    • Each habilitation procedure requires its own habilitation committee, which accompanies and examines the process.
  • Hardship application
    • Informal application for subsequent admission or crediting of examination results in case of missed registration within the deadlines. Will be examined and decided by the programme management in individual cases.
  • HSP resources
    • Higher Education Pact, is a law passed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the interception of the dual year 2013; however, the funding that has been decided upon will now expire.
  • Fireside chat
    • Informal meeting initiated by the FS with teachers and staff of the Institute to discuss FS concerns.
  • Small groups (KG)
    • Topic-specific groups within the FS to relieve the meeting and work things out
  • Colloquium
    • A scientific expert discussion, accountability or (oral) examination.
  • Commissions
    • Committees in which the FS represents the interests of the student body.
  • Memorandum
    • Fixed part of the QV resources which can only be changed unanimously in the Commission (partly jobs).
  • Medium-level staff (scientific)
    • Academic staff of the university who do not hold a chair.
  • MNF
    • Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (see Faculty)
  • Norbert Grötsch
    • Head of IT at the institute, responsible for IT problems.
  • Öz
    • Opening hours of the FS room. (Mon-Thu: 12-13h, semester break: Tues, 12-14h)
  • Professorship
    • Meeting of all professors of the GIUB.
  • QV
    • means of improving the quality of teaching.
    • Funds for the improvement of teaching, compensation of the state for tuition fees.
  • Senate
    • Advisory, condolence and management tasks, university-wide.
  • SFB
    • Collaborative Research Centre.
    • This usually refers to Detlef Müller-Mahn’s (DMM) work on the rural future of Africa (Future Rural Africa).
  • Slack
    • Computer and smartphone app for internal communication of the student council. You can exchange information in the various small groups and share media etc. Generally much clearer and more productive than communication via WhatsApp etc.
  • Special resources
    • Flexible part of the QV funds, on which the QV Commission decides each semester.
  • Mrs Hock
    • Director of Studies.
  • SP
    • Student Parliament
  • Stone men & stone women
    • Student Council of the Geosciences (Geology).
  • Study Advisory Board
    • Advisory body of the faculty council in study-relevant contents.
  • Symposium
    • Conference/lecture/event.