FAQ Health
Stay healthy:
Healthy food line: If you want to avoid a food coma after lunch, we recommend MensaVital.
MensaVital offers dishes that are particularly vitamin-preserving and low in fat – prepared with natural ingredients and without flavour enhancers. More about MensaVital.
Salad bar: If you fancy something fresh, the salad bar is the place for you. Crisp leafy salads, colourful vegetables, and various toppings are ready for you to mix – no chopping or prepping required.
Whether organic, vegetarian, vegan or fair trade, we’ve got something for everyone. As far as economically feasible, we use organic products.
The universities offer a wide range of sports and leisure activities so that you have a good balance to the stress of university life during your studies.
University Sports at the TU Darmstadt (USZ)
University sport at the Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
At the universities and throughout the city, people sing and make music:
Further choirs from and in Darmstadt
The city of Darmstadt has presented a lot of information about musical groups and offers.
The STWDA (Studierendenwerk Darmstadt) offers various methods for stress management, including the free prevention course “MentalStrategies” provided by TK. You can find current health programs here.
If you ever get hit:
On the doctor search tool provided by the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians allows you to search specifically for local doctors. You can filter by specialty, region/neighborhood, or even preferred language.
For Darmstadt and the surrounding area, there is a multilingual brochure listing various specialists and clinics along with the languages they speak: Brochure “Which doctor speaks my language?”.
Every student is covered by two accident insurance policies: one through their university and an additional one provided by us.
All students are legally insured against accidents through their university. If you are enrolled at TU Darmstadt or h_da, you are covered year-round. The insurance applies to all activities directly related to your university attendance.
You can find more details about accident insurance here.
Whether you have questions about financing, legal issues, housing, learning, exams or personal problems: we will be happy to advise you.
comeTOgether - counselling service provided by students for students
Equal opportunity officers are committed to promoting gender equality in all areas of society and to reducing discrimination. Get to know the equal opportunity officers at your university.
TU Darmstadt: Gender Equality Office
h_da: Equal Opportunity Office
There are commissioners at both universities. Students will find special support here for all questions and problems in their everyday study life that are related to a disability or a chronic illness.
h_da: Representative for Students and Prospective Students with Disabilities and/or Chronic Illness
TU Darmstadt: Representative for Disability Issues and Handicap Project
Our Social Counselling service will be happy to advise you independently of one of the two universities.
On the page Studying with disabilities we provide further information.
Sexualised discrimination and assaults violate laws and infringe personal rights.
Contact persons at TU Darmstadt: campaign achTUng!
Contact persons at h_da: Sexualised discrimination and violence (website in German)
The two university communities offer a varied leisure programme to get to know new people, meet people from other nations or just have fun in a relaxed atmosphere. Personal counselling on questions of life and faith as well as coaching are also on their agenda.