Corona: Lectures and exams at the GTC cancelled.

All lectures at Universities in BW have been cancelled until April 19th.

Yesterday evening all lectures at Universities in BW have been cancelled until April 19th.

The UoT forwarded the Minister's decree on their news pages.

Unfortunately, there is no official English translation available. Please find below an inoffical translation of Minister Bauer’s decree.

This announcement immediately affects our block courses today and in the next weeks, which are herewith cancelled. Also the Sensory System exam on April 9th is herewith cancelled.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Regarding the longer perspective for the Summer Term and measures and ways how to handle the requirements of compulsory courses and further exams, we ask for your patience.

 

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Minister Theresia Bauer: "Additional efforts are necessary to slow down the spread of the virus and protect people".

In order to support the nationwide measures and with the aim of counteracting the further spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 as far as possible, in Baden-Württemberg, in addition to the ordered prohibition of events with more than 1,000 participants, all public events of the state theatres in Baden-Württemberg will be cancelled by the state by April 19, 2020, and the start of lectures at the state's universities, colleges and academies will be suspended until that date [April19, 2020], or the commencement of lectures will be interrupted.

"I would like to thank the universities and the state theatres in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe for supporting these measures and now implementing them in the short term," said Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, Research and the Arts, Theresia Bauer, speaking in Stuttgart on Wednesday (11th March). "I know that a lot of things now need to be reorganised. But this extra effort is necessary in order to slow down the spread of the virus and protect people in this country. The ministry also wants to contribute its share to this goal through clear guidelines and good advice.

The measures shall apply with immediate effect. The need for this precautionary measure is subject to ongoing review. With this measure, Baden-Württemberg is contributing to the necessary uniform approach of the federal states.
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