The international team of Gauss Friends, founded in the year 2008, links the mutual passion for science and enthusiasm of the well-known German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. Thereby, different cultures converge here, which justify the richness of the inter-cultural competences of the international team and contribute consequently to a better world understanding. In this process, the Gauss Friends are characterized by a central idea, and are mutually connected as “guests of Gauss”: Friendship worldwide. True to Gauss’s spirit, many international country evenings, theatre plays and language courses are organized regularly by the Gauss Friends thus providing a bridge between culture and science.

Since 2017, shortly before the 10th anniversary of the Gauss Friends in 2018, the link to the university as part of the positioning at Faculty 6 completed the vision of a firm, structurally anchored establishment of a practiced welcome and consulting culture at TU Braunschweig. In addition to the organization’s activities, the "Gauss Haus Project" of Faculty 6 has created a close exchange within the framework of the university’s structures on the challenges and opportunities of an international university.