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Frequently asked questions

About ESN:
• What is ESN?
• What is the ESN Card? Which advantages do I have with it?
• Where can I enrol for events organized by ESN Graz?


Before you arrive:
• Where can I find a room or an apartment for my stay in Graz?
• I would like to have a person who picks me up when I arrive and helps me at the beginning of my sty to find my way through Graz.

When you arrive:
• How can I get from the airport to the city centre?
• Where can I live, when I arrive before my room / apartment is available?
• Do I need a health care insurance?

Where can I get/find…
• … a free SIM card?
• … my mobile phone unlocked?/  ... a cheap mobile phone?
• … a cheap/used bike?
• … a tandem partner?

 

 

About ESN:

  • What is ESN?

Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is a non-profit international student organisation that provides services (events, buddy system, general support) to exchange students all over Europe.

 

  • What is the ESN Card? Which advantages do I have with it?

 The ESN Card is the official card (membership card) of the International Exchange - Erasmus Student Network (ESN). All exchange students and mentors can get the card at our office. With the ESN Card you get several advantages (mainly discounts).

Read all about it here:

http://oehweb.uni-graz.at/international/esncard
http://www.esn.org/projects/esncard.php

 

  • Where can I enrol for events organized by ESN Graz?

At our office in Schubertstraße 6a, ÖH Karl-Franzens Universtität, during our office hours.

Take your ESN-Card with you!

 

Before you arrive:

  • Where can I find a room or an apartment for my stay in Graz?

 There are different possibilities to get a room in Graz. There are several student dormitories (Studentenheime) and lots of shared apparements (WG) or single appartements (Garçonnière).

You can contact the Austrian Exchange Service, they can help you.
http://www.housing.oead.at/index_e.asp

Or search here on your own:
http://www.sws.or.at/
http://boerse.htu.tugraz.at/wohnen/

When you are already in Graz - all around our university on the black boards there are a lot of offers. Or just ask around.

 

  • I would like to have a person who picks me up when I arrive and helps me at the beginning of my sty to find my way through Graz.

 First you have to register at:

http://oehweb.uni-graz.at/international/apply4mentor

within the registration period.
After a while you will receive an email with the contact details about your buddy.

 

When you arrive:

  • How can I get from the airport to the city centre?

Follow this link and see the schedule. There is a train and a bus service connecting the airport with the city center of Graz.
A journey one way costs 1.80 EUR.

 

  • Where can I live, when I arrive before my room / apartment is available?

There are a lot of hotels and a youth hostel in Graz.

Here are a few which are not too expensive and closeby the city center.

Youth hostels:

Hotels and pensions:

 

 

  • Do I need a health care insurance?

Students from EU/EEA-countries who are insured, need to bring the European Health Insurance Card with them, which can be obtained from their insurance company in their home country. You have to take the European Health Insurance Card with you when you consult a doctor.

Students from NON-EU/EEA-countries have to register for the Austrian health insurance (at "Gebietskrankenkasse" - GKK). For regular students this is offered for currently € 23.26 per month also including eye and dental coverage and medication (excluding medical evacuation and repatriation – you would have to get that extra with a travel insurance, for example).

For more information please check this information page provided by the international office of the Karl-Franzens University.

 

 Where can I get/find…

  •  … a free SIM card?

You can get the SIM card at our office in Schubertstraße 6a, ÖH Karl-Franzens Universtität, during our office hours.
You get the free SIM card only when you are member in ESN (when you have the ESN-Card).

More details about the card here:

http://oehweb.uni-graz.at/international/SIMcard

 

  • … my mobile phone unlocked?/  ... a cheap mobile phone? 

Usually mobile phones are SIM locked by your provider. When you want to use our free SIM card (t-mobile), you should unlock your mobile phone.

If you have a Nokia mobile phone, you can try to unlock it at the following link for FREE. Just follow the instructions: http://www.entsperren.at/

 

If you have another mobile phone, the unlocking will cost about 10-30 EUR.

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Handyman Griesplatz 35

open: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00 ; Sa 10:00-13:00

Phone: 0676 9530379 or 0316 722451

Email: handyman.graz@utanet.at

 

There you'll get 3 to 5 EUR discount for unlocking your phone!

A used mobile phone you'll get from 30 EUR upwards.

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  • … a cheap/used bike?

Caritas
Grabenstraße 88
Tel: +43 316 673942 338
open: Mo-We: 7:30-12:30 & 13:00-16:00
price: starting from 30 EUR

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Rebikel
Keplerstraße 55 (orange house, 1. floor)
Tel: +43 676 5019 070
email:rebikel@gmx.net
open: arrage a time (email, tel.)
price: starting from 50 EUR

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Drahtesel
Schönaugasse 43
Tel: 043 650 5612350
open: Mo-Fr: 9:00-18:00 ; Sa 9:00-12:00

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Bicycle
Körösistraße 5 (close by the Keplerbrücke)
Tel: +43 316 688645
open: Mo-Fr 7:00-13:00 6 14:00-18:00
price: starting from 50 EUR

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Evolution Sports
Rösselmühlgasse 26
Tel: +43 316 720720
email: shop@evolutionsports.net
open: Mo-Fr 9:30-12:00 & 14:00-18:00
price: starting from 70 EUR Bikes to lend: 60 EUR per semester
Note: Be aware that they don't always have bikes, you can inform yourself through telefone/email.

 

  • ... a tandem partner? 

To find a Language Tandem Partner you have some possibilities in Graz.

  • Come to our regular's table at Propeller and ask around! or
  • Register at Treffpunkt Sprachen at Uni Graz here.