uniWORKcity – Labor market integration for international students

Ruhr University Bochum has a long-standing commitment to the integration of refugees and international students into the academic world, it also supports these groups in their integration into the German labour market.

Interested in taking part?

Registration for the summer semester 2026 is possible until April 12th on. There will be a kick-off event at the beginning of the semester, for which the date will be announced in time.

Registration link

If you are a student from another institution, you can create a guest account on Moodle and use it to register for the uniWORKcity Moodle course. To create a guest account, please follow this link: Guest Registration.

This access will enable you to enroll in the uniWORKcity course and fully participate in its sessions and resources.

You are an international student and want to prepare yourself for the German labour market?

"uniWORKcity" makes sure to integrate international students into the German labour market already during their studies. The modular project offers competence enhancements in the fields of strategy development, job-related German, application training and empowerment elements as well as practical contacts for the development of a professional network.

The goal is to aid refugees and international students of all subjects in higher semesters in successfully obtaining a degree as well as to prepare them for the German labour market and its challenges before completing their course of study. Another purpose of this programme is the reduction of contact barriers to potential local employers, that many international students face after graduation.

In order to participate in the uniWORKcity project, you must meet the following criteria:

Be an international student (not a German citizenship; high school degree obtained abroad)
Be enrolled as a Bachelor or Master student in a higher term of any UniverCity institution in Bochum
Have at least a A2 German language proficiency

You will attend a weekly German course "Berufsbezogenes Deutsch" (Thursdays 10 am - 12 pm at the Department German as a Foreign Language) and various inputs (Wednesdays 2 - 4 pm mainly via Zoom) on topics such as application preparation as well as numerous lectures and workshops on important topics such as residence and labour law, dealing with experiences of discrimination and industry-specific information.

Attendance of the regular uniWORKcity courses, Wednesdays from 2 to 4 pm during the lecture period, is mandatory. Participants are encouraged to attend all other digital courses and events. With regular attendance and participation in both the mandatory and additional uniWORKcity courses and events the course will be credited with 5 credit points in the Optionalbereich.

After completing the course participants will have developed a professional application portfolio and will receive a UniverCity certificate and will have improved their Business German!

Contact

Email

uniworkcity@rub.de

Mona Serdani

Project Management uniWORKcity

Phone: +492343222388

Email: mona.serdani@rub.de

Björn Kirschbaum

Project Management uniWORKcity

Phone: +49 234 32 21704

Email: bjoern.kirschbaum@rub.de

Career Service

Office hours:

Mondays from 1:30 - 3 pm (Open office hours)
Mondays - Thursdays 9 am - 12 and 1 - 3 pm (Consultation hours by appointment)