Semester ticket
On behalf of the student body, the AStA has concluded a Germany semester ticket contract with the Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association (VBB). According to the contract, all HNEE students are obliged to purchase the Deutschlandsemesterticket, in return for which the ticket is particularly favourable. Individual students who are unable to use the service are excluded from the contract and the AStA supports students who are unable to pay for the semester ticket via a hardship fund. Thanks to an additional "climate euro", the semester ticket has been climate-neutral since the 2017/2018 winter semester (see below).
The Deutschlandsemesterticket is issued as a personalised digital ticket and can be purchased via the following link The ticket can be saved in your smartphone wallet and is only valid with an official photo ID.
The fee for the semester ticket is charged by the Student Support Service and is already included in the semester fee.
Scope of application
The semester ticket entitles the holder to any number of journeys within the area of validity of the Deutschlandticket. In addition to the tariff regulations for the Deutschlandticket, the respective conditions of carriage of the integrated transport companies of local rail passenger transport and other local and regional public transport providers (excluding long-distance transport) apply. Special and excursion lines are excluded. The semester ticket does not include any surcharges or supplements and does not entitle the holder to take a bicycle.
The semester ticket is valid for one semester, cannot be cancelled and is non-transferable.
Climate Euro
From the 2017/2018 winter semester, the emissions generated by students using public transport will be offset in cooperation with Ivakale e.V.. This allows you to travel "CO2-neutral" on public transport. The university, the VBB and the student body each cover a third of the costs for these offsetting services. For students, this is the so-called "climate euro", which is charged together with the semester ticket fees. The extension was approved almost unanimously at the 2016/2017 winter AGM.
Contact us
If you have any questions, the Semesterticket team can be contacted at this email address.
Chip card as an alternative to the QR code
But you don't have a smartphone or any other device that can be used to show the QR code?
The Barnimer Busgesellschaft (BBG) offers us an alternative to the personalised QR code in the form of a chip card. Due to the effort involved, we can only offer this to a limited number of students. You can submit an application for this.
Please bear in mind that due to the limited number of cards available, we may not be able to offer this alternative to all students without a smartphone. So please think carefully about whether you really need it. If you have a tablet, for example, it is of course more complicated to show at the ticket inspection than with a smartphone, but you still have the option of using your ticket. Other students may not have a smartphone or tablet.
If there is too much demand, the AStA will have to decide which exceptional cases/reasons will be accepted and which will have to be rejected. (Personal preferences such as preferring to show a card rather than an app on a smartphone, for example, will immediately fall through. We also cannot accept fears that the battery of your smartphone will run out during the journey, only in exceptional cases if the limited number of chip cards has not yet been exhausted). Therefore, please state in as much detail as possible in your application why you need a chip card.
Also bear in mind:
For the electronic card, data (name, date of birth, address, e-mail address) must again be passed on to the Barnimer Busgesellschaft (BBG).
The chip card costs 10 euros and must be collected independently from the customer centre (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 27d, 16225 Eberswalde) in return for the fee. If the card is lost, the card will be cancelled by the BBG and a new one will be provided at a further cost of 10 euros.
The deadline for the winter semester 2024 has already expired. However, we still have a few chip cards available. If you are interested, please fill out the application form and send it to us (asta-soziales@hnee.de).
CampusWorks
You can find more information about the SoliTicket and semester ticket refunds on the AStA website on CampusWorks, the university intranet. You must be connected to the university's Wifi or have a VPN connection.