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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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19. August 2026

New publication: "Konfessionen"

As part of the series "Positionen: Katholizismus und Säkularität", Herder Verlag has just published Volume 2, "Konfessionen. Zeugnis, Zweifel und Optionen", by Thomas Brose, Felicitas Hoppe and Holger Zaborowski.

19. August 2026

New publication: "Bild, Bildung und Berufung"

A new book by Holger Zaborowski has been published by Herder under the title ""Bild, Bildung und Berufung" (Image, Education and Appointment). It deals with the Christian faith in a secular world.

18. August 2026

Married, cast out, banished: divorced women of the high nobility, 1600–1850

The Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, in collaboration with the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, is hosting a conference from 28 to 30 September entitled "Verheiratet, verstoßen, verbannt" (Married, Rejected, Banished), which…

13. August 2026

New study: Relative performance feedback can shorten the duration of studies

Excessively long study periods incur costs for students, the economy and society. But how can the time taken to graduate be reduced without far-reaching reforms to degree structures? A study by Oliver Himmler (University of Erfurt), Raphael Brade…

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