3 The Program of - GPE Global Production Engineering - TU Berlin

Technische Universität Berlin
Global Production Engineering (GPE)
GPE Guide 2007
Hi to all new GPE Students!
The GPE-Coordination welcomes you warmly to the Technische Universität Berlin, TUB. We
wish you successful studies and a pleasant time in Berlin.
The GPE-Guide has been created to support all attending students of the GPE-Program and
contains important information, which we hope will enable you to carefully prepare yourself for
your studies in Germany.
Students participating in the GPE-Program at the TUB will have to take care of several
important matters. The most important document to bring with you is:
• a valid visa, which you need to ask for prior to setting out for Berlin
(“Studienbewerbervisum”)
In addition to this, you will have to deal with a number of administrative matters upon arriving
in Berlin, e. g,
• finding a room or an apartment if it was not organized by the GPE coordination office
for you
• a residence registration (polizeiliche Anmeldung)
• a registration at the TUB (Immatrikulation)
• a residence permit (Aufenthaltserlaubnis)
We hope this guide will help you to have a comfortable and pleasant start at the TUB.
Please read this Guide carefully prior to your journey to Berlin.
The guide is structured chronologically so that you can refer to it according to the episode of
studies you are in.
Phone and Fax numbers
Phone and fax numbers in this guide sometimes are Berlin local numbers (the numbers
behind the slash ‘/’).
• When calling from a telephone in Berlin, you only have to dial the local number
without 030.
• Instead when dialing with a mobile phone/cellular phone you have to add 030 before
any number even when calling from Berlin.
• From other German regions, you as well and always have to dial the area code for
Berlin 030 before the local number.
• From other countries, you have to dial the country code +49 plus the Berlin Code
without 0: +49 30 ahead the local Berlin number.
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