Welcome to the Orientation Unit (OU) 2024
If you are reading this, that probably means that you are starting to study at the Department of Informatics of the Universität Hamburg in Winter Term 2024/25. Great!
Therefore, the team of the Orientation Unit (OU) – or German "Orientierungseinheit" (OE) greets you with a warmhearted "Moin"!
This year's OU week will start on Friday, the 4th of October 2024, for everybody and end on...
- Thursday, the 10th of October, for M.Sc. IAS students,
- Wednesday, the 9th of October, for M.Sc. DSAI students,
- Tuesday, the 8th of October, for M.Sc. Computer Science students,
- and Friday, the 11th of October, for B.Sc. Computer Science students.
To be prepared for the OU week as well as possible, we highly recommend you at least go through the section First Steps of this guide a few days before the Orientation Unit starts. (We will go through everything else together during the OU week).
If you like, you can also click through the entire guide, skipping the execution of parts marked as not necessary.
Any further information will be published at oe.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/en/.
Contents of this guide
If the OU has not taken place yet, you should work through the sections First Steps.
If you have not been at the OU in person or did not finish your account activation during the CSI (Computer Service Introduction) of the Orientation Unit, this site will serve you as a guide by ...
- providing an overview of the different user accounts that you may be using during your studies at the University of Hamburg (UHH),
- introducing your university e-mail account,
- and introducing the basic functionalities of your STiNE account.
- We will show you how to register for courses during the Orientation Unit. We strongly advise you NOT to register for courses on your own beforehand!
If you did not attend the OU, this guide will show you how to access your Informatics Account.
Click "Next" to proceed through the guide in the order displayed in the navigation menu on the left.