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Research Profile Strategy 2030+

In summer 2023, the University of Erfurt presented its research profile strategy for the coming years. In this strategy, the university not only commits to its structural profile fields, but also focuses on even stronger networking in the future – both, within the university and with external cooperation partners – on graduate service and on knowledge transfer to society.

In an interview, Professor Benedikt Kranemann and Dr Katharina Held, under whose leadership the research profile strategy was developed, explain the background and details.

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31. July 2026

From hagiographies to contemporary literature: Lina Thiede awarded the Gotha Library Fellowship

The Gotha Research Library at the University of Erfurt has always been a place where knowledge is gathered and history is researched. Historians, theologians and philologists usually make up the majority of those who engage with the library’s rich…

28. July 2026

HeatFuture Lab: How will heat change our everyday lives, our health and the medicine of the future?

What will a hot summer feel like in the future? And how can cities, healthcare and we ourselves cope better with heat? Questions like these are the focus of the HeatFuture Lab Thuringia, which the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the…

23. July 2026

Call for entries for the 2026 Dalberg Prize for transdisciplinary research by early-career researchers

The Erfurt Academy of Non-Profit Sciences, in collaboration with the state’s universities, is inviting applications for the 2026 Dalberg Prize for transdisciplinary research by early-career researchers. This Thuringian Academy Prize brings research…

21. July 2026

Hartmut Rosa elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt and Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, has been elected an International Fellow of the British Academy. The Academy thereby recognises…

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