The application period for the AWP for the summer semester 2024/2025 runs from 15.05.2024 until 15.07.2024.
Applications are accepted via uni-assist.
Mandatory information events take place on various dates online; we communicate these via our landing page / website regularly.
If you need help with your application via uni-assist, please use our step-by-step guide here (pdf).
If you have any questions about your application, please book an appointment for an applicant consultation or come to our office for an open consultation.
Experience has shown that it only makes sense to apply and participate in the AWP program if you live in the immediate vicinity of Frankfurt (maximum 90 minutes away by bus and train). Please take note of this information and arrange a consultation with us if you have any questions regarding your living situation.
Bewerbung mit sechs Schritten:
Further Information:.
After completion of the procedure, selected applicants will be invited to a German placement test; after evaluation of the German placement test, the final selection of the new AWP participants will take place and they will be invited to a welcome event.
The Information Video (in German) about the application procedure summarizes the most relevant steps via uni-asst.
Most relevant criteria for the selectioin of AWP members are:
Preference is given to people who have not yet studied or who do not yet have a professional degree in order to enable them to pursue higher education.
Persons with a master's degree or higher are only accepted in exceptional cases and with convincing reasons.Uni-assist requires certificates of your educational background and information about your previous studies and language skills. Therefore, you must upload copies of the following documents in original language as well as translated into German or English along with your application to the uni-assist application portal on their website:
Please check on the uni-assist website whether you have submitted all required documents in the correct form!
If these documents are no longer available/accessible due to your escape, please contact the AWP team and inform uni-assist. You will then be asked to fill out a self-disclosure form.
Academic Welcome Program
Campus Bockenheim
Hörsaalgebäude, Entrance Mertonstrasse
Graefstrasse 52-54
Offices 101-103,
1st floor
Mail address:
Senckenberganlage 31,
Postfach SLI-AWP 105
60325 Frankfurt a. M.
Telephone: +49-69-798-17296
E-mail: awp@uni-frankfurt.de
Facebook: AcademicWelcomeProgram
Counseling for applicants:
with appointment (phone, in person, virtually):
book an appointment
Open counseling hours in person (no appointment required):
Tuesday: 10 a.m. - 12 a.m. and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Open telephone-counseling, just call 069-79817296:
Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 12 a.m.
For AWP-Participants:
Counseling only with appointment (phone, in person, virtually):
book an appointment