Please contact dpe@uni-passau.de for any query.
For personal meetings and appointments, please come by during our office hours Wednesday and Thursday, 10 am - 4 pm, room 108.
You will find us in the middle of the building complex at the Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Strasse, which is next to the Central Bus Station. Our adress is Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Straße 16, we are situated on the first floor - Rooms 101 to 117:
DFG Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems"
University of Passau
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Strasse 16
94032 Passau, Germany
Location pin:
Take the Bahnhofstraße eastwards towards Bahnsteg/Poststeg. Then turn right onto Bahnsteg/Poststeg after the Döner Shop. Take the stairs up to the pedestrian overpass and go to the other side of the rail tracks. Turn left onto Grünaustraße and walk until you come to the intersection on the bridge over the train tracks. Then turn right to stay on Grünaustraße for some more meters and turn right again to get into the HK building complex using the stairs. Turn right when you arrive at the big clock/temperature sign and the HK16 is on the left-hand side.
You can also go another way: Leaving the train station, turn right along Bahnhofstraße. Before reaching the Stadtgalerie shopping center, turn right into Heuwieserstraße. At the end of Heuwieserstraße, turn right again and cross the bridge over the rails. Then immediately turn left into Grünaustraße. After a few meters, go up a few steps on the right between the buildings at Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 14b and Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 12. Turn right when you arrive at the big clock/temperature sign and the HK16 is on the left-hand side.
Using the highway (Autobahn):
A3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Nuremberg – Passau – Linz – Vienna
A92/A3 Munich – Landshut – Deggendorf – Passau
On the A3, take the exit ‘Passau Mitte’ and, at the traffic lights, turn left in the direction of Passau. Follow the road for about one kilometre, then take the first exit right onto Pionierstrasse. Proceed along this road until you reach a T-junction, then turn left onto Neuburgerstrasse. Keep going straight along this street. After about 1.5 kilometres, when you reach the fifth set of traffic lights, turn right onto Leonhard-Paminger-Strasse and keep going until you reach the T-junction, where you should turn left onto Innstrasse. You will see the University buildings come up on your right and left as you continue along Innstrasse.
For more information on parking spaces and car parks, including Park & Ride car parks railway stations, bus lines and taxi stands, use the interactive map of Passau
Distances – Duration (conservative):
Munich 200 km – 2:00 h
Munich Airport 160 km – 1:30 h
Nuremberg 230 km – 2:20 h
Frankfurt 450 km – 4:20 h
Linz 80 km – 1:15 h
Vienna 300 km – 2:50 h
Prague 220 km – 3:05 h
Regensburg 125 km – 1:30 h
Find your suitable train schedule here: https://int.bahn.de/en/offers
Intercity (IC) trains:
Nuremberg – Passau – Vienna
Dortmund – Cologne – Frankfurt/Main – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Regensburg – Passau – Linz – Vienna – Budapest
Intercity Express (ICE) trains:
Ostend – Amsterdam – Brussels – Aachen – Frankfurt/Main – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Regensburg – Passau – Vienna
Hamburg – Hanover – Göttingen – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Passau – Vienna
Regional trains (RE):
Munich – Landshut – Plattling – Passau
Onward journey with door-to-door shuttle service:
(Recommended: Takes about 1,5 hours from the airport to the hotel.)
Book here in advance: http://www.flughafentransfer.at
Upon arrival at Munich airport, follow the signs to the Rental Car Services (located in the Munich Airport Centre (MAC). Find the desk where the shuttle services are located opposite the escalator to the S-Bahn (local transit train), in between the service desks of the rental car services and Deutsche Bahn) and present yourself to the SMS (Salzbuger Mietwagen Service) representative at the desk.
Onward journey by train:
Option 1: Head to the Flughafen train terminal and take the RE22 to Regensburg Hbf, departing every hour at past 16. Get off in Landshut(Bay)Hbf station, and change to the RE3 to Passau Hbf. The total journey takes about 2,5 hours.
Option 2: Take the bus no. 635 to Freising. The bus departs just outside the Munich Airport Centre (MAC) – follow the ‘Bus’ signs. The bus ends in Freising train station; this trip will take some 20 minutes. In Freising, take the RE3 to Passau Hbf, departing every hour at past 49. The RE3 takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes to Passau.
Train ticket options:
Best option for travelling weekdays, between 9 am and 3 am the next day or on Saturdays and Sundays the whole day AND only regional trains: Regional day ticket for Bavaria (so called "Bayernticket") for up to 5 people.
Best option for all other times of the day AND only regional and urban transport: Deutschland-Ticket, which allows unlimited travel for one month for 58€.
For faster and long-distance trains (normally called IC, EC, or ICE), please check the ticket options at https://int.bahn.de/en/offers
Onward journey by (rental) car:
via autobahn A92 Landshut – A3 Passau (about 1,5 hours)
find more information here: http://www.munich-airport.de
Onward journey by train: direct or via Hanau ICE train to Passau about 4,5 hours
Onward journey by car: via autobahn A3 to Passau
Onward journey by train via Nuremberg city: direct ICE train to Passau about 2,5 hours
Onward journey by car: via autobahn A3 to Passau
Onward journey by train via Hörsching: direct train to Passau about 2 hours
Onward journey by car: via autobahn (toll road) A25/A8
Door-to-door shuttle service (book in advance) http://www.flughafentransfer.at/
