As of 01.01.2020, Andreas Schülke is thus responsible for all matters concerning the student unions in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland and represents these federal states in the Berlin umbrella organisation DSW. As a member of the Association Council, he advises and supervises the DSW Board.
"Being elected to the DSW Association Council is a great opportunity for me to represent and promote the interests of the student unions at the highest level. My goal is to give weight to the demands of the student unions on politics, society and the economy and to work towards a modern and fair educational landscape in Germany," says Andreas Schülke, describing the motivation for his term of office.
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The Studierendenwerk Vorderpfalz is asking the state government for a financial aid commitment for students in Landau, Ludwigshafen, Worms and Germersheim and expresses its solidarity with the demands of the Landau AStA in its "Open Letter to the State Government" and the support it calls for students. The Studierendenwerk Vorderpfalz warns that many students who have previously financed their livelihoods with part-time jobs are facing acute existential hardship due to the Corona pandemic and the loss of many income opportunities.
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51 seasonal employees in the Studierendenwerk's university catering will not receive a new contract from mid-July 2020. Turnover in university catering has fallen by 96.5 per cent.
The figures are devastating. Where we produced and served 1745 meals per day in the same period in 2019, in 2020 it was just 62 meals on average. The Studierendenwerk can't get through that economically without making cuts. Despite all attempts to attract customers to the campus, we have to face the economic facts: without an open campus, there can be no open canteens and cafeterias. In a survey of all universities, more than 96% of the guests of the Studierendenwerk stated that they would no longer attend any face-to-face events by the end of the summer semester 2020. This corresponds 1:1 to the collapse in the Studierendenwerk's turnover. It is impossible to run the canteens and cafeterias under these economic circumstances.

The Studierendenwerk Vorderpfalz takes care of the physical well-being at the Neustadt location. 250 students at the Neustadt wine campus, 301 students at the vocational school and around 200 staff at the Breitenweg 71 site in Neustadt an der Weinstraße have been without a food service since the beginning of the year. As of Thursday, 15 October, the Studierendenwerk has taken over catering for the students.
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The campaign for renting the new hall of residence at Maximilianstraße 34 will begin before Christmas. A total of just over 100 students reported interest for the 65 dormitory places and initially led us to expect a positive development in renting the property. However, the decision by the universities that the 2021 summer semester will most likely also remain digital caused the housing market for dormitory places to collapse completely again.