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Making Future Cities Work: Brandt School student team develops future-oriented model for refugee integration

Europe faces a refugee integration challenge that current initiatives struggle to address. Traditional responses, such as stricter borders and offshoring asylum seekers, offer no sustainable solutions and often create humanitarian dilemmas. But what…

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MPP students present their Master's Thesis in poster format

Brandt School second-year students presented their MA thesis topics in a poster session on April 9, 2025. Topics ranged from the regulation of AI in health care in the EU to issues of political polarization in Indian agricultural policies.

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Will AI one day make us redundant in the world of work?

Following the successful lecture series on the topic of "Artificial Intelligence", to which the City of Erfurt and Erfurt's universities invited students for the first time in the 2024 summer semester, the series will be continued in 2025. On eight…

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Well prepared for your studies: University of Erfurt invites you to the Open Day

The University of Erfurt is once again inviting students to its annual Open Day (HIT) on Saturday, 26 April. It starts at 10 a.m. on the campus in Nordhäuser Straße. The degree programmes will be presented at various stands and in lectures until 2…

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How is AI transforming the work of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)?

Several weeks ago, students from the Artificial Intelligence project group at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, had the chance to explore this question during a presentation at the International Civil Society Centre in…

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Reflections on the Winter School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Efforts

From February 12–14, 2025, the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, in partnership with the Aspen Institute Germany, hosted an inspiring and dynamic Winter School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Efforts. This three-day…

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New article presents institutional perspectives on developing green skills

Together with colleagues from the universities of Konstanz, Heidelberg, and Roskilde (Denmark), Achim Kemmerling publishes a paper on “Foundations for a green economy: how institutions shape green skills” in the Nature Portfolio Journal/ Climate…

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New AI handout for students

After the University of Erfurt provided its teaching staff with a handout on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and examinations in December 2024, there is now also a corresponding handout for students.

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