Other committees

You can find an accurate overview here.

Faculty Council

The Faculty Council is the highest authority in the faculty. Everything that is developed in committees (e.g. your study regulations) must be approved there in order to come into effect. The Faculty Council also appoints the members of the individual committees. The Faculty Council consists of 7 professors, 2 technical and administrative staff members, 2 academic staff members and 2 students. You can elect the latter and two deputies annually. The Faculty Council is chaired by the Dean.

Student Parliament of Faculty (FSP)

The Student Parliament of the Faculty is the faculty-internal representation of the students. 11 members and 11 deputy members are elected for this annually. The FSP elects and dismisses the Student Council and decides student body’s budget.

Student Council (FSR)

The Student Council is the executive branch of the student parliament. It organizes the O-Phase and other events. In addition, current problems in everyday university life are discussed in the biweekly meetings. The student council is your point of contact if you have problems.

Subject groups (FG)

Each subject is also represented by a subject group spokesperson.
The FG Mathematics and the FG Computer Science meet regularly. The FG Data Science meetings take place irregularly.

Study Commission (StuKo)

The study commission discusses things that affect the course of study. This concerns regulations but also the use of tuition fees. This is the only commission in which students are not in the minority: members are 4 students, 2 professors, 1 academic staff member, and 1 staff member from technology and administration. The chair is the dean of studies.

Examination commission

The examination commission decides on regulations and individual cases in examinations.

Budget and planning commission (HPK)

The budget planning commission decides on the budget. In addition, all kinds of measures are planned to improve the situation of all members of the faculty.

There are also the institute boards, admission and appointment committees and much more.

Foundation Council

The Georg August University Göttingen is a foundation under public law. For this reason, a foundation council was set up in 2003 to advise the Presidential Board.

Presidential Board

The highest authority and external representation is the Presidential Board. The President is currently Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan. He is supported by the Vice Presidents Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer, Dr. Valérie Schüller, Prof. Dr. Anke Holler, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau and Prof. Dr. Christian Ammer.

Senate

The Senate takes on the role of the Faculty Council (see above) for university-wide decisions. You can elect 2 student representatives.

Student Parliament (StuPa)

The Student Parliament decides on the budget and elects the AStA.

AStA

The AStA is the official representation of all students at the university. It is the executive body of the StuPa, comparable to the FSR with regard to the FSP.