Practical informations for foreign students
Disclaimer
Provided information are collection of remarks from students from KP1 department at GSI.
Informations reflect personal experience and thus can be incomplete and are not legally binding
Introduction
GSI and City of Darmstadt provide friendly, international enviroment for
study and development. Most of the people in the city speaks English.
Formal Status
Ph.D students are employed at GSI according to German Social Service regulations (BAT).
Students are employed as a half time workers in class BAT-IIA.
Length of vacations depends on age and is around 30 days.
VISA informations
To start Ph.D study at GSI it is necessary to posses proper VISA.
VISA formalism depends on the Country of origin. GSI provides the future student with all
necessary documents. Issuing VISA could take from one week to a month.
University
Beside working at GSI students, to obtain Ph.D. degree have to be registered at the University.
The University depends on the "Doctor Father" and can be either
Technical University in Darmstadt or University in Frankfurt.
Ph. D. Students at GSI do not have any teaching duties.
Infrastructure
GSI have an extensive library with textbooks and scientific journals.
Access for many scientific on-line journals is subscribed, those include
ScienceDirect and PROLA.
Pension Schema and Health Insurance
Since students have normal employment from their salary insurances and taxes are paid.
Thsose include among others pension schema and health insurance.
Health insurance covers all standard treatments including dentist.
Housing
GSI operates lodging facility for experimentalists and several guest
rooms and small apartments in GSI-owned housing about 1 km from the laboratory.
For a longer stay, however, an apartment in the neighbourhood can be rented.
In the nearby towns: Wixhausen, Arhailgen, Erzhausen furnished apartments
are offered for rental.
The standard apartment usualy consist of a room with an equipped kitchen corner
and a bathroom (shower). Usualy Landlord provides place in a cell for bikes and sometimes
laundry facility. Price for a single person apartment depends on the size,
location and equipment and vary around 300-400 euro. (including heating, water, etc.)
Apartment rental advertisement can be found in local newspapers.
In addition GSI authorities help in finding an appartment.
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