Who we are
Since May 7, Jana Seifert and Sebastian Fath have taken over responsibility as the Chairpersons of the Constituted Student Body of Heidelberg University (VS).
Jana Seifert (she/her)
Jana is 21 years old and currently studying physics in her eighth semester. Since she started studying at Heidelberg University, she has been active in various student groups such as the MathPhysInfo student association (Fachschaft) and the Green University Group, where she was also a member of the state executive committee of Campus Grün. She has fought for student interests at this university primarily in university committees such as the Faculty Council of Physics, the Senate Committee for Studies and Teaching (Senatsauschuss für Studium und Lehre) as well as the Senate itself. She was a committee officer (Gremienreferentin) until last October and has been the VS member of the VS Senate for a year now (VS-Mitglied im Senat der VS). Equally important to her is her involvement in the Working Groups AK Räume, AK Internes and AK LeLe. She originally comes from Hof in Franconia.
Sebastian Fath (he/him)
Sebastian is 25 years old and studies History and English. He has already been involved in Heidelberg for one and a half years as a consultant for the StuWe (Referent für das Studierendenwerk) and is actively involved in its committees: He is a member of the Administrative Board, the Representative Assembly and was involved in the search committee for a new management. He has also been active in the VS’s archive working group for a year (cf. AK Archiv).
Before moving to Heidelberg, he studied law in Würzburg for three semesters. Originally from Oberboihingen, a small town in the Stuttgart metropolitan region, he used to be heavily involved in musical projects in his youth – a passion that has unfortunately waned considerably since his studies.
What we do
The two chairpersons of the VS (Constituted Student Body) are elected by the Student Council (Studierendenrat (StuRa)). The election takes place in the third session of a legislative period. The central task of the chairperson is to chair the RefKonf meetings which primarily means preparing and following up the meetings via documents and minutes as well as chairing the meeting itself. The chairpersons have a joint vote in the RefKonf. They are also members of the StuRa, but only in an advisory capacity. They report regularly on the meetings of the RefKonf.
The two chairpersons are also the legal representatives of the constituted student body. This means that statutes, budgets, QSM proposals, etc. adopted by the StuRa or other bodies of the VS and all contracts between the VS and external parties, such as first-year student union contracts, are signed by the chairpersons.
They are also responsible, together with the VS’s employees, for ensuring the proper administration of the constituted student body.
The representation of the constituted student body at a central level is carried out both externally and internally by its departments/offices in accordance with the positioning and guidelines of the StuRa or, in exceptional cases, in accordance with the positionings of the RefKonf.
Our goals
We want to strengthen the political visibility of the student body, both within the university and in city as well as state politics. Closer cooperation with the city council, the political players in Heidelberg and other student representatives in Baden-Wuerttemberg are a key concern for us.
However, we not only want to develop the VS externally but internally, as well:
- Sebastian is committed to digitalising and optimising administrative processes in order to make VS structures more efficient and accessible.
- Jana would like to make the VS more visible to the wider student body. She believes that well-structured, centralised Erstiarbeit (“freshers work”) is particularly important here.
We also want to improve cooperation between the offices, student associations (Fachschaften) and committees in order to best represent the concerns of all students.
Contact
Jana Seifert
Sebastian Fath
VS Chair
StuRa Office
Albert-Ueberle-Strasse 3-5
69120 Heidelberg
Tel.: 06221/ 54-2456
Fax: 06221/ 54-1612456
E-Mail: vorsitz@stura.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours
- via mail: vorsitz@stura.uni-heidelberg.de
- in person: Wednesdays, 2:30pm
