The semester ticket is recognized by the SOEG, but a historical fee will be required for trips. The amount of this fee is currently being negotiated. If you are dependent on the Zittau narrow gauge railroad, please contact us, this will strengthen our negotiating position with the transport association.
 
Improvements in this regard are planned for the future. For example, the use of the SOEG/Zittau narrow gauge railroad without historical contribution, provided that a SOEG stop is located up to a maximum of 1km away from your residence.

Withdrawal from the constituted student body is no longer possible as of 30.09.2021. The Saxon Higher Education Freedom Act (SächsHFG) was amended to this effect. By withdrawing from the constituted student body, it would have been possible to escape the solidarity model and not obtain the semester ticket, even if there was no exemption option.
 
For students who have withdrawn from the constituted student body by March 31, 2021 in accordance with Section 24, Paragraph 1, Sentence 3 of the SächsHFG in the version applicable on September 28, 2021, the withdrawal shall continue to apply. These students may re-enter the constituted student body. Re-entry must be declared in writing with the re-registration. Students who have validly declared their resignation in accordance with the provision referred to in sentence 1 after March 31, 2021, shall become members of the constituted student body again as of the summer semester of 2022.

We are still negotiating the final price of the semester ticket with the transport association. The price depends, among other things, on which relations and additional things we include, but also on the number of students at our university and especially the part of those who are allowed to participate in solidarity.
 
However, there should not be any major changes in the price. Probably the final price will even remain at 22 EUR/month.

Our current plans are that you will  therefore be able to exempt yourself from the semester ticket.

We are currently still in negotiations with the transport companies. Our goal is to have bicycle and dog transport included in the semester ticket in the ZVON area. However, the negotiations are difficult, because the possibility to take bicycles and dogs with us depends mainly on the capacity of certain routes. On the part of the transport association and the transport companies, there are understandable concerns that students could hinder commuter or leisure traffic.
 
We are trying to find the best solution, most likely a solution that makes it possible to take the bicycle or the dog free of charge at certain times (e.g. from 5 p.m. on weekdays). Also the exclusion of certain relations because of their very high occupancy is possible (streetcar Görlitz, RE1 Görlitz-Dresden, RE2 Görlitz-Dresden, RB60 Görlitz-Dresden). Also conceivable is an unguaranteed bicycle transport, i.e. the possibility that a student with a bicycle will be thrown out when the train is full.

Current plans are to make the semester ticket available to all students in the summer semester of 2022 (01.03.2022).

For us, the question of introducing a semester ticket at the university is above all a social question. If at least 500 students vote in favor, this justifies for us the introduction and the solidary financing of a semester ticket.

Yes.
 
The following exemption options are provided (final version still under discussion):

• Students on a semester of leave
• Students doing a practical semester with a job outside Saxony
• Students with a study-related stay abroad without leave of absence
• Students writing their diploma thesis or other final thesis during the semester outside of Saxony for study-related reasons
• Students who have left the student body
• Disabled students in possession of a severely disabled pass with a valid token in accordance with the Severely Disabled Persons Act (Schwerbehindertengesetz) or with another proven disability that prevents the use of the semester ticket
• Students with residence outside Germany
• Students who are only enrolled to complete and hand in their final thesis (defense of the thesis must have taken place no later than one month after the beginning of the semester)

 
Hardship cases: In social or financial emergencies

If you do not fall under the exceptions of the solidarity model, you are entitled to obtain the semester ticket. There are then no more exemption possibilities.

The solidarity price of the ticket will be included in the semester fee. The semester fee will therefore increase from approx. 100 EUR by approx. 130 EUR to 230 EUR.
 
The amount would be collected as before, via the re-registration, without any further action. After payment, the imprint for the semester ticket can be printed on your student ID via a validation machine (as is already the case with the validity imprint).

Upon re-registration, everyone will initially pay for the semester ticket. An exemption and the resulting refund will be possible through a separate application to the student council. After examination of the respective case, you will then be refunded the amount in full or proportionally and will also lose the right to use the semester ticket.

Please come to us and apply for a hardship case.

You can find the included routes in the ZVON main network map or the network map of Saxony. The trip to Dresden or Leipzig is included in the semester ticket.

The semester ticket without the solidarity model is not possible. The transport association couples the solidarity model as a condition to a semester ticket.

You can find the included routes in the ZVON main network map or the network map of Saxony. The trip to Spremberg is included in the semester ticket. From Spremberg you have to buy a single ticket, a time pass or a "Länderticket".

The city bus line P is not part of the ZVON tariff and is operated by the Polish transport company. For this reason, this route is not included in the semester ticket. For this relation the Euro-Neiße-Ticket is accepted.

Relations to Wroclaw are currently not included in the semester ticket. However, this is a subject of negotiation for us in the next semesters with the transport association. There is a good chance that the Zittau-Liberec route will soon be included in the validity of the semester ticket.

No. We aim to keep improving the conditions for the Semesterticket for you. The conditions from summer semester 2022 are just the start. Our goal is to continually negotiate more benefits and included offers for us students in the future. An example of this is the StuRa of the TU Dresden, which is also successfully doing this.

We are currently negotiating with the Stadtwerke Görlitz to include the bike rental stations in the city of Görlitz in the semester ticket. For us, the model for this is the integration of Nextbike/MOBIbike into the semester ticket of the StuRa TU Dresden.
 
In Zittau, unfortunately, there is currently no large-scale bike rental or e-scooter offer, which is why no negotiations are currently possible there.

If you have taken out a season ticket with a transport company within the ZVON as a subscription, there may be a problem with the introduction of the semester ticket in the summer semester of 2022 that you would have to pay for both the semester ticket and the subscription season ticket. As a solution for this, you will be granted a special right of termination for ZVON subscription season tickets as soon as the semester ticket has been introduced.