In 2019, to mark the 25th anniversary of the university, a doctoral prize was established. Every two years, an excellent dissertation by a young researcher submitted to the University of Erfurt is honoured. One thesis is nominated from each faculty and from the Max Weber College, which has previously been awarded top marks. Scientific originality, innovative methodological approaches, brilliant execution and high relevance for current research are therefore decisive characteristics of all nominated dissertations.
The award ceremony takes place in a festive setting and is intended to give an interested public the opportunity to gain a closer insight into some of the diverse research work at the University of Erfurt. With 3,000 euros as the winner's prize and 500 euros each for the runners-up, the University of Erfurt's doctoral prize is one of the most highly endowed of its kind in Germany and is kindly sponsored by the Universitätsgesellschaft Erfurt e.V. (Erfurt University Society ).
Award and nominations 2025
Dr. Laima Eicke „The International Political Economy of the Energy Transition. Three Essays on the Interactions between Renewable Energy, Value Creation and Public Policy“
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Dr. Sarah-Maria Thumbeck “Text Comprehension in Aphasia: Theory-Driven Assessment and Strategy-Based Intervention / Textverständnisstörungen bei Aphasie: Modellgeleitete Diagnostik und strategiebasierte Intervention“
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Sarah Al-Taher "What is Love? A Philosophical Discussion of Plato's Symposium and Meister Eckhart's Treatise On the Noble Man: Love as the Rise and Way of Humanization"
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Dr. Paulina Hauser "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Socio-ethical analysis of human rights violations against women from a global perspective."
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Dr. Sophie Annerose Moderegger "The text-free picture book as an object of literary-aesthetic learning processes. Narrative structures - reception processes - constructions of meaning."
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Award and nominations 2023
Dr Hannah Vermaßen "The resonance capacity of the economic system for the German energy transition. Prerequisites, forms and consequences of social coordination processes."
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Antonia Purk: "Enacting Presences. Jamaica Kincaid's Writings of History"
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Clemens Villinger: "From an unjust plan to a fair market? Consumption, everyday life and social inequality in the long history of the 'Wende'"
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Dominique-Marcel Kosack: "Redemption of the Self. A late modern soteriology and the irritation of personal identity"
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Lea Kallenbach: "(World) relations in the evidence-based control of the school system. An empirically based critique of resonance relations."
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Award and nominations 2021
Dr Magdalena Gercke "Career-related orientation patterns of student teachers with regard to inclusion in schools"
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Dr Janico Albrecht "The scope of religious staging of generals in the late Roman Republic"
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Dr Samuel-Kim Schwope "Bless these people whom you send to serve in your church... Liturgical celebrations for the (training) mission and commissioning of parish and pastoral workers in liturgical science"
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Dr Paula Stehr "Exchange of social support in online communication modes. An addition to the perspective of prosocial communication science"
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Award and nominations 2019
Dr Jana Ilnicka "Meister Eckhart's eighth Paris Quaestion in the contemporary discussion on Relatio at the University of Paris 1300-1320"
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Dr Marlen Bunzel "Job in the space of relationship with God. Spatial image analyses of the Book of Job"
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Dr Anna Lang "Children's Probabilistic Judgment and Decision Making"
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Dr Jakob Robert Müller "The emergence of the governance of the hybrid organisational form cooperative: An empirical study using the example of energy cooperatives in Germany"
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