Student ID Card

The student ID card serves as proof of your enrollment at Trier University of Applied Sciences and also functions as a cafeteria card and access card (for the parking lot, computer center, etc.).

When you first receive your student ID card, it already has an expiration date printed on it. This date corresponds to the end of the semester. If you intend to continue your studies beyond this period, you must re-register by paying the semester fee for the next semester. All students will receive a re-registration notice via email from the Student Services Office.

After you have re-registered, the validity of your student ID card must be extended. This means that the new expiration date must be printed on the student ID card.

A specific area on the front of the card, known as the TRW (Thermo-Re-Write) strip, is designated for this purpose. This strip is slightly duller than the rest of the surface. Printing the new expiration date is called validation.

Students perform the validation at dedicated validation stations (Schneidershof, Building G in the passageway to Building H, and at Irminenfreihof, ground floor next to Room Q11). The machines are in operation on weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m and saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 12:OO.  The thermal process first erases the text on the TRW strip. Through a connection with the student database, the new validity date is printed based on the data retrieved.