Leisure activities
It is our concern to provide you with a diverse cultural life at your places of study during your studies. Therefore, we offer a range of leisure activities that will ease your start in your new home and enrich your student life.
Students' Clubs
The Studierendenwerk Thüringen provides twelve students' clubs in Thuringia with rent-free rooms. Thus, these clubs can offer you favourable entrance fees and culinary options as well as a varied cultural programme. In addition, the staff of the cultural offices are available to provide the clubs with advice and assistance. Feel free to drop by - as a guest and as a member. The clubs are always on the lookout for motivated contributors.
International Centre Jena
The International Centre is an intercultural meeting place offering plenty of space for your ideas, events and projects. The centre's numerous counselling and leisure activities have made it the first point of contact for newly arrived international and German students in Jena.
The International Centre Jena is a cooperation project of the Friedrich Schiller University and the Ernst Abbe University Jena, the two student councils, the city of Jena and the Studierendenwerk.
Internationales Centrum
Haus auf der Mauer
Johannisplatz 26
07743 Jena
Cross-cultural events
The Studierendenwerk Thüringen organises three intercultural event series at the locations Erfurt, Weimar, and Jena. These events take place weekly during the lecture period and offer you the opportunity to experience internationality at first hand. You are invited to learn about different cultures and people, listen to interesting lectures and share your own experiences, taste typical food or take part in traditional dances. The entrance is always free of charge.
Café International Jena
The events will again take place weekly from October 2022.
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Culture Talk
The events will again take place weekly in Kasseturm from October 2022.
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Café International Erfurt
The events will again take place weekly in Hörsaal 7 from October 2022.
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Drawing workshops
The drawing workshop of the Studierendenwerk on the subject of Nudes takes place during the lecture period of the University of Jena in the Haus auf der Mauer (International Centre) every Thursday, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.. Under the artistic direction of the freelance artist Astrid Leiterer you can give free rein to your creativity. Previous knowledge is not necessary.
The participants use pencil, charcoal, pastel chalk, red chalk or ink to try to put the fascination of the line of the human body, the fascination of the expression of the human being itself as well as the representation of the character of the individual on paper. The understanding of proportions, the creation of internal drawings through hatching and the reproduction of the living expression of the model up to abstraction requires a high degree of observation, concentration and creativity and trains the artists not only in drawing.
