International Student Identity Card

The International Student Identity Card (English: International Student Identity Card, ISIC) has been published since 1968 by the ISIC Association, a non-profit organization in the travel industry, an association under the umbrella of the International Student Travel Confederation ( ISTC), in which the world around 70 specialized school and student travel tour companies have jointly organized. In 2006, the ISTC with the Federation of International Youth Travel Organizations ( FIYTO ) has partnered with the General Association World Youth Student & Educational Travel Confederation ( WYSETC ). The ISIC Association is one of the eight sub- associations of WYSETC. The exhibitors promise to cardholders numerous benefits in currently 120 countries (as of 2012) - discounted flights on discounted accommodation, to the reduced entry to museums and theaters. For young people up to 26 years there is also the IYTC ( International Youth Identity Card), for teachers the ITIC (International Teacher Identity Card), which are almost identical also issued through organizations ISIC Association.

The ISIC is valid for 16 months ( from September to December of the following year ).

Importance

The International student card gives you access to specially reserved for services to cardholders of participating in the ISIC Association tour company and its partners. For all other locations with generally granted discounts (especially entrance fees ) is in principle the regular identification of an educational institution shall be provided. The benefits of ISIC is there if need be in their high degree of international recognition. The completely non-uniform design of school and student ID cards difficult to check for authenticity so much that occasionally - especially abroad - is rather familiar to the correct examination of student status by the Exhibitor of ISIC, as on one's own judgment.

The ISIC is consequently to be regarded more as a membership card at a discount system. It is not a government issued ID, although their naming and self-promotion ("... the only proof of student status, which is recognized worldwide") suggests an association with government ID. Although the ISIC enjoys widespread support from state and government agencies, it shall, for example, the logo of UNESCO. Your appreciation, however, is the absence of uniform regulatory legitimacy regularly in the discretion of the point at which it is presented in an individual case. There is no fundamental right to recognition.

Requirements

For a fee of € 12 in Germany, € 10 in Austria and 20 Swiss francs in Switzerland, students can purchase the ISIC. Some German and Swiss universities enter the ISIC regularly from their students.

To apply for an ISIC, one of the following conditions must be met:

• A visit to a secondary school ( secondary schools, junior high schools, high schools, comprehensive schools from the fifth grade, vocational schools, trade schools and vocational schools). Here, the minimum age is twelve years.
• The full-time visiting a college or academy, which allows a degree with an academic degree. The minimum stay at the educational institution must be six months. There is no age limit.

Such proof shall be a current enrollment or a student ID card.