Department of Natural Sciences
Time schedule of the Department of Natural Sciences

Time Schedule 2024-25
Jan 6 – Jan 24, 2025 Continuation of the lecture period winter semester 24/25
Jan 9, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
Jan 23, 2025* Department board meeting
Jan 24, 2025* Open Day, Campus Sankt Augustin
Jan 27 – Feb 7, 2025 1st examination period winter semester 24/25
Jan 27 – March 28, 2025 Lecture free period
Feb 25, 2025* Department board meeting
March 17 – March 28, 2025 2nd examination period winter semester 24/25
March 27, 2025* Department board meeting
April 3, 2025* Girls´ and Boys´ Day
April 23, 2025* Taster day of Nachhaltige Chemie und Materialien
April 24, 2025* Taster day of BSc Biology
March 31 – July 4, 2025 Lecture period summer semester 2025
April 10, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
April 24, 2025* Department board meeting
May 8, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
May 9, 2025 30 Year-Celebration University Bonn-Rhine-Sieg
May 19 – 23, 2025 Registration in Apollo for all exams of the summer semester 2025 (1st and 2nd period)
May 22, 2025* Department board meeting
May 24, 2025 Open Day, Campus Rheinbach
June 12, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
June 26, 2025* Department board meeting
July 7 – 18, 2025 1st examination period summer semester 2025
July 7 – Sept 26, 2025 Lecture free period
July 24, 2024* Department board meeting
Sept 15 – 26, 2025 2nd examination period summer semester 2025
Sept 15 – 26, 2025 Introduction weeks for all first semester BSc students WS 25/26
Sept 25, 2025* Department board meeting
Sept 29, 2025 Welcome@H-BRS, Sankt Augustin
Sept 29, 2025 – Jan 23, 2026 Lecture period winter semester 2025/2026
Oct 9, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
Oct 18, 2025 Graduation Ceremony, Telekom Forum Bonn
Oct 23, 2025* Department board meeting
Nov 13, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
Nov 5+6, 2025* Company day, Sankt Augustin
Nov 27, 2025* Department board meeting
Dec 1 – 5, 2025 Registration in Apollo for all exams of the winter semester 25/26 (1st and 2nd period)
Dec 11, 2025* Departmental colloquium 5.00 p.m.
Dec 22, 2025 – Jan 2, 2026 Lecture free period
Dec 24, 2025 – Jan 2, 2026* University closed
*subject to change
Bank Holidays:
Mar 3, 2025 Carnival Monday
Apr 18, 2025 Good Friday
Apr 21, 2025 Easter Monday
May 1, 2025 Labor Day
May 29, 2025 Ascension Day
Jun 9, 2025 Whit Monday
Jun 19, 2025 Corpus Christi
Oct 3, 2025 German Unity Day
Nov 1, 2025 All Saints’ Day
Dec 25 – 26, 2025 Christmas
Jan 1, 2026 New Year's Day