Thanks to their shorter decision-making channels, smaller committees and lean structures, medium-sized universities like that in Magdeburg are in a position to react quickly and flexibly to specific demands in science, industry and society.

OVGU and the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg e.V. have jointly set up a student relief fund to help the affected students as quickly and unbureaucratically as possible.