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University-wide book coupon project for the winter semester 2013/2014

Book coupons were issued for the first time at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the summer semester of 2009. The project, funded by tuition fees, was a collaboration between the departmental student committee and the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The students had the option to redeem the vouchers at six of Göttingen's bookstores.

The response to the project was so huge that the Faculty of Social Sciences has run the project every semester since then.

Indeed, the project was also been taken up by other faculties. In the summer semester of 2010, three other faculties alongside the Faculty of Social Sciences pledged their participation in the programme: The Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology and the Faculty of Humanities.



Participating faculties during the winter semester of 2013/2014

The following faculties will issue book coupons for the forthcoming winter semester:

  • Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Institute for Psychology
  • Bachelor of Biochemistry
  • Faculty of Social Sciences

  • The list of books

    Up to the 1st of october 2013, students and lecturers had the option to make proposals to update the existing list of books.

    Please note that only books that contribute to the improvement of the degree programmes and the teaching quality can be included in the list. In case of doubt, the decision is up to the faculties. Please send the form, properly filled in to the concerned person in your faculty.



    Please note that all publications of some publishers have been released, as well as all texts of laws, bibles, dictionaries and grammars. Besides this, all editions in all available languages and all volumes have been released. For more information, please see the current list of books.

    Students of the Master of Education degree programme are requested to check their requirements of books using the other lists. If the book is still not available, please get in touch with your contact person.



    Issue of book coupons

    Please visit the websites of the faculties for precise information as to when and where the book coupons of the individual faculties will be issued.



    Participating bookstores
    You can redeem your book coupon at the following bookstores:

    • Akademische Buchhandlung Calvör, Jüdenstraße 23, ZHG und Nordmensa
    • Buchladen Rote Straße, Nikolaikirchhof 7
    • Buchhandlung Hertel, Kurze Straße 14
    • Eulenspiegel Buchhandlung, Gotmarstr. 1
    • Hugenbudel, Weender Str. 33 und Weender Landstr. 6
    • Lehmanns Media, Weenderstr. 87
    • Thalia, Weenderstr. 36
    • Vaternahm Tabula Weenderstr. 68 und Theaterstr. 24



    Before redeeming the coupon, please be sure of which book(s) you would like to buy from the overall list! Please also enquire about whether the desired title can be delivered at all.

    Reliable sources include:



    What should you pay attention to when redeeming the book coupon?

    • You can buy books over and above the amount of the coupon. In this case, however, the difference must be paid out of your own pocket.
    • If however, the entire amount is not spent, there will be no refund of the balance amount.
    • You can use the coupon only once. It is also not possible, for example, to buy a book at bookstore 'A' on a Monday, and then on Tuesday buy another at the same bookstore or a different bookstore. This means that the coupon can be used only at one bookstore.





    What's new?

    Basically, the book coupons can be combined! This means that if you are studying one subject, for example at the Faculty Social Sciences, and another subject at another participating faculty you will get one book coupon from each of the faculties.
    You can also use both coupons together at a bookstore, and buy books from the entire list. This means, that no restrictions are being imposed based on faculty affiliations.



    Please contact the individual faculties for more precise information about the projects.

    The websites of the individual faculties provide you with information about the value of the respective book coupons, whether you are entitled to a coupon, and give you information about your contact person, as well as all relevant information from the faculty concerning the project (e.g. the exact time and place for issue of the book coupons etc.).

    If you are entitled to a book coupon from two faculties, please inform both faculties of this fact.