All student groups

ArbeiterKind.de is a non-profit organization that supports school students and university students from non-academic families along their educational path. We provide information about choosing a degree program, funding options such as BAföG and scholarships, and all important questions related to studying. Our goal is to encourage young people to study and to share personal experiences from starting university to entering professional life. Everyone should be able to choose their educational path freely, regardless of their parents' educational background or where they come from. The ArbeiterKind.de Dresden student group has been actively involved at Technische Universität Dresden for years. Through numerous information events, we support prospective and current students in starting university and successfully navigating their studies. Would you like to volunteer? Then become part of our diverse community!

We offer courses for adults and school students on mental health. We want to empower people to look after their own mental well-being and train them to respond appropriately to people around them who are under psychological strain. Our goal is to help create a society in which mental health is destigmatized and psychological stress is taken seriously. Learning how to help is simple once you know how. Everyone can join us: our team includes people with professional psychological expertise, people with lived experience, and relatives of people with mental illness. This allows us to approach our topics from several perspectives. There is also room for many kinds of involvement, from leading courses and designing Instagram posts to networking at public events, solving computer problems or planning team events. We are happy about every new person who wants to volunteer with us.

The Betonbootteam at TU Dresden has been building floating vessels out of concrete since 1996 and takes part in the German Concrete Canoe Regatta. Civil engineering students design and build concrete boats together in weekly meetings and apply current scientific knowledge in practice.

We work through events and projects for sustainable digitalization. Ideas for projects from new members are very welcome.

bonding connects students with companies while they are still studying, not only after graduation. The group organizes the bonding company contact fair every spring, one of Germany's largest student-organized career fairs with more than 100 exhibitors, as well as excursions directly to company plants and offices and workshops and soft-skill trainings through the nationwide con-moto program, for example on presenting, project management and applications. Members can contribute their skills and learn new ones. Those who already have experience can take on responsibility directly, while newcomers are taught what they need. Areas include marketing, finances, makerspace work, event organization, sponsoring, IT and board work. Everything is free for students and funded through partner companies and fairs, with the work carried by volunteers. The Dresden group currently has around 15 active students from many disciplines and meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in its office on Nürnberger Straße 49. Anyone who wants to get a taste can simply join on a Wednesday or contact the group on Instagram. There is no application process and no prior experience is required. bonding has existed nationwide since 1988 and in Dresden since October 1, 1990, making it one of the oldest and largest student groups in the bonding initiative.

Club Aquarium e.V. is a Dresden student club that has been run by volunteers since 1983. With a cocktail bar, stage and event venue, it offers concerts, art exhibitions, international student parties and pub nights. The association aims to give students a place to make contacts, experience art and enjoy music.

HängeMathe is a cozy living-room-like club where you can meet people and enjoy fun drinks. The club was founded in 1990 by mathematics students and later became partly shaped by physics students as well, but people from other degree programs are also involved and not everything is about mathematics all the time. Many members enjoy card games, board games, drinking games and table football. Musically, the club moves between punk, metal, indie, rap, more punk and whatever the bar team feels like playing. The club opens three times a week, and members often come by as guests as well as for bar shifts to spend a relaxed evening. Everyone who wants to drop by is welcome, with the clear exception that discrimination is not okay and Nazis are barred from the venue.

Politics often remains abstract, theoretical and far removed from current debates during university studies. DIAS wants to change that: the Dresden Association for Foreign and Security Policy creates space to discuss international politics, global crises and current foreign and security policy questions. To do this, the group regularly brings speakers and experts to Dresden and invites students from all disciplines to join discussions and ask questions. Members also get an open space for exchange and access to events organized by the national umbrella organization, the Bundesverband Sicherheitspolitik an Hochschulen (BSH).

DIE BÜHNE is TU Dresden's student amateur theatre, founded in 1956. It focuses on professional theatre work, including acting, performance, readings and concerts, carried out by students from all fields of study. Each season produces four to five productions as well as smaller projects in areas such as directing, dramaturgy, lighting and sound technology.

Many of us want to make the world a better place. But our time and resources are limited, so how can we use them as effectively as possible? Effective Altruism explores this question. We orient ourselves around the principles of prioritization, impartial altruism, open truth-seeking and community spirit. We discuss questions such as: Which career path allows me to do the most good? How can we fight poverty and disease? How can we prevent the next pandemic? What risks come with the development of artificial intelligence, and how can we respond to them? How can we improve living conditions for animals and ultimately end factory farming? To exchange ideas on these and many other topics, we are founding a new student group. Depending on the interests of new members, we are planning weekly open discussion rounds or a reading group around the book '80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good'. We also want to motivate and support one another in our altruistic projects here and now. If you are interested, send an email to dresden@effektiveraltruismus.de. We look forward to hearing from you.

Elbflorace is a TU Dresden student group that has taken part every year since 2006 in Formula Student, the world's largest student design competition. For this competition, the team develops and builds its own fully electric autonomous race car. It consists of around 70 active members from engineering, business and computer science degree programs.

EnergieNetz Dresden is a student group at TU Dresden that focuses on energy supply, energy infrastructure and the energy industry in the context of the energy transition. It offers a platform for professional and social exchange among students. Through cooperation with companies and organizations, it also highlights perspectives that make it easier to enter professional life.

ESN TU Dresden supports international students during their stay in Dresden and brings international and German students together. The group organizes parties, trips, theatre visits, sports events, language cafés and cultural events.

First Aid For All was founded in 2022. Since then, the group has mainly trained medical students who volunteer to conduct resuscitation training. In principle, however, the student group is open to students from all disciplines, because its eight-hour basic training provides all the knowledge needed to pass on what has been learned. The main target group is school students in grades 7 to 9. In addition, the group has already offered training for companies and sports clubs and organized public hands-on activities, for example in front of the HSZ or on the Brühlsche Terrasse.

Under the direction of dance educator and choreographer Maud Butter, around 40 dancers and musicians currently dedicate themselves to preserving and interpreting German dance folklore and to bringing traditional customs from different German regions to the stage in sophisticated choreographies. A sensitive and responsible approach to cultural heritage is central to the group's thematic and narrative works using the diverse means of folk dance. In the spirit of longtime choreographer and dance director Thea Maass, the group's goal is to bring folklore closer to people in its living naturalness, expressive richness and beauty. The ensemble, made up mainly of TU Dresden students and alumni, performs regionally and across Germany. As a member of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts (CIOFF), it also takes part in numerous folklore festivals and dance competitions abroad. Through contact with folklore groups and people from all over the world, the ensemble gains new impulses for its artistic work and contributes to lively exchange between cultures.

Gutzkowclub is Dresden's oldest student club, founded in 1964, and runs a student bar in the Max Kade House on Gutzkowstraße. It offers regular events such as pub quizzes, skat evenings, karaoke, beer pong and dart tournaments, and the option to rent the venue for private celebrations.

Heinrich-Cotta-Club (HCC) is a student club in Tharandt, founded in 1986 by forestry students at TU Dresden. It organizes weekly club evenings and events such as the Green Ball, the Holzhackerfest and a team triathlon. It primarily addresses forestry students and offers a social meeting place with a bar, parties and themed evenings.

SMD is a Germany-wide, interdenominational network of Christians in schools, universities and professional life, and Hochschul-SMD Dresden is part of it. The group was founded in 1990 and was the first recognized student group at TU Dresden. As Christian students, the group wants to bring faith into conversation in the university context. Thinking, believing and experiencing belong together for them. Their goals are to live Christian values such as charity and justice at the university, invite students to the Christian faith and create exchange about faith and science. Whatever your convictions are, whether you are Christian or simply curious, you are warmly welcome. During the semester, the group hosts themed evenings every other Tuesday with a mix of impulses, open exchange and community. It also organizes lecture-hall talks, coffee stands and many other activities.

This lecture series takes a holistic look at ecological sustainability from different perspectives and discusses ways to make one's own life as sustainable as possible. The events are offered for students from all semesters, TU Dresden employees, upper-level school students, senior citizens and all other interested people outside TU Dresden. They are also suitable for newcomers because no prior knowledge is required and the content is presented in an accessible way. This distinguishes the lecture series from the more in-depth environmental lecture series by tuuwi. Recordings of all previous lectures can be found on Videocampus Sachsen. Everyone is warmly invited to take part. The lecture series offers a good introduction while also covering a broad range of topics, so even people who have already engaged more deeply with sustainability can learn new and interesting facts.

Progressiv am Campus brings together everyone who wants to help shape everyday university life, whether in the senate, senate committees, other university bodies or simply through the desire to move university politics forward in a progressive way. The group connects committed students between university elections and beyond election periods, creates spaces for exchange and jointly develops concepts and demands that make the university fairer, more open and fit for the future. Its work is not only about committee politics, but also about mutual support, university-political discussions and taking a breath together amid the bustle of university politics.

IGB Dresden is a student stock-market association at TU Dresden, founded in 1995. It brings together students interested in the stock market, private investors and citizens through weekly discussions, lectures, seminars and stock-exchange trips. Its goal is to share knowledge about capital markets and financial topics and to build a network into the financial world.

Junges Ensemble Dresden is an ambitious chamber choir with around 35 singers, mostly students and young professionals, dedicated to demanding choral literature from the Renaissance to modern music. The choir cultivates a cappella singing and overtone singing and undertakes annual concert tours abroad, especially to Eastern Europe.

Leo-Club Dresden 'August der Starke' is a student group at TU Dresden that is active through social projects such as environmental cleanups, fundraising campaigns like car washes and support for social institutions. The group's motto is 'We Serve' and combines student engagement with community and fun.

The Liberal Student Group Dresden (LHG) is a political student group at TU Dresden that advocates liberal values and the interests of students in university politics. It discusses social and university-political topics and meets regularly for a liberal roundtable.

Nightline Dresden is a listening phone line run by students for students during the night. Whether it is exam anxiety, doubts about your degree choice, stress in a shared flat, homesickness or heartbreak, student worries can be many, and the Nightline is there for these moments. If you simply want to talk, they will listen. They do not judge, condemn or tell you what to do. They listen and may help you find a way forward together. All calls are confidential and nobody has to give their name. All members complete multi-day training in basic conversation skills and are regularly supervised by psychological professionals. The Nightline works according to the principles of anonymity, confidentiality, freedom from prejudice, independence and low-threshold support. Besides phone and chat shifts, members are also involved in finances, technology, public relations, scheduling and other areas. The concept originally comes from the United Kingdom, where there are more than 40 Nightlines. Nightline Dresden is closely connected with national and international Nightlines.

We are a political student group connected by Christian-democratic, conservative and liberal values. Alongside university politics and discussions, fun and networking are central to our group.

Rotaract brings together young people around the motto 'Learn, Help, Celebrate'. Rotaract stands for 'Rotary in Action'. The 192 Rotaract clubs in Germany have more than 3,700 members, and worldwide the clubs form one of the largest youth organizations with more than 250,000 members. Their umbrella organization is Rotary Club. The group works together for others and contributes to international understanding through friendship, fairness and tolerance. With enthusiasm and fun, members want to improve the world and achieve big things through small actions. They are students and young professionals from many disciplines, aged roughly 18 to 35. They meet weekly for different occasions in and around Dresden and help people locally through social projects, such as the annual Christmas celebration of Lebenshilfe e.V., the summer Kidscamp with Urlaubskinder e.V., reading aloud in senior homes, Elbe meadow cleanups and regular joint learning.

We see ourselves as a large group of friends who are socially engaged together and meet regularly once a week. Based on our motto, we put together a varied monthly program that covers every aspect of it. In the area of helping, we support numerous social institutions in Dresden, such as Lebenshilfe Dresden, Familienzentrum Radebeul, WinWin e.V. and Dresdner Tafel. We are happy about everyone who would also like to get involved. You can join our meetings without commitment and see whether you like it and would like to contribute.

It all started with a tournament in a basement on Zellescher Weg. One semester later, the group was already outside on the meadow in summer, and by now it is an official student group with a rented sports hall. Step by step, things are moving upward.

As a humanitarian and water-sports community of the German Red Cross, we volunteer for the safety of others in and around water. Our tasks include service in swimming pools and at the sea, safeguarding events on and around water, flood and disaster response, prevention of swimming accidents and the training and continuing education of emergency personnel. Our local Water Rescue group has worked closely with Dresden's university sports center (DHSZ) since it was founded. We meet weekly for lifeguard training to improve and maintain our operational readiness. For this purpose, we also offer members various training opportunities alongside practice, in group sessions or through umbrella organizations. Social exchange with like-minded people is also an important part of the group. More information is available on our website.

We meet every Monday at Tusculum to discuss photographs. In addition, we have a photo studio and a darkroom that our members can use freely. Feel free to drop by and take a look.

The Student Medical Service (Uni-Sanis) is a recognized student group at TU Dresden that specializes in first aid. Members are trained and receive continuing education in first aid, provide medical support at university events and offer free first-aid seminars and workshops for TU Dresden students and employees.

The Big Band Therapy is a big band founded in 2012 by Dresden medical students. It plays jazz, swing, Latin and pop and is open to all degree programs. The band rehearses weekly on Tuesdays and performs at concerts, balls and galas.

TU Big Band Dresden is a student orchestra dedicated to big band music. You can experience the band swinging, rocking, jazzing, playing blues and grooving, from loud to quiet, fast to relaxed, fiery to dreamy, but always musical and with joy in what they do.

The goal of the TU Dresden Robotics Working Group is to let students from different engineering and natural science fields experience the everyday practice of engineering before entering professional life. To achieve this, the group takes part in the international Eurobot competition every year. Much more than engineers are needed for this. The tasks range from designing and commissioning autonomous robots to organizing excursions and introductory events for prospective students, accounting, contact with supporters, project planning and management, and public relations.

404 University Esports Dresden is the registered student group of 404 Multigaming e.V. at TU Dresden. Since 2019, it has connected students through gaming together and competing in the University Esports League, for example in League of Legends and Rocket League. The group organizes LAN tournaments, online competitions and community events on campus.

VWI Hochschulgruppe Dresden e.V. has represented industrial engineering students at TU Dresden since 1993 and has more than 100 members. It organizes excursions, workshops, company visits and competitions and provides access through ESTIEM to a Europe-wide network of more than 100 student groups in 31 countries.

YETI Dresden is an entrepreneurship scholarship and fellowship program for students at Dresden universities. Over 18 months, it offers coaching, mentoring, workshops and networking to support entrepreneurial role models. All content is free of charge, and the program is aimed at students from all disciplines who are interested in founding ventures and innovation.