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"My stay in Gotha has permanently changed my understanding of maps"

He has been in Gotha since November 2021, conducting research on the holdings of the Gotha Perthes Collection as a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection. A great fortune and a…

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Save the Date: Ceremony of the Doctorate Award on the "Day of the doctorate"

This year, the University of Erfurt is once again awarding a Doctorate Prize. Every two years, it honors the excellent dissertation of a young scientist submitted to the University of Erfurt.

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New study on the switch to renewable energy sources in private households

In March, a new study by Dr. Robert Neumann (Technische Universität Dresden) and Professor Guido Mehlkop (Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt) was published in the journal "Energy Reserach & Social Sciences", which examines…

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"Focus & Flow" community for doctoral candidates

As part of the programme "Academic Qualification", the University of Erfurt offers doctoral candidates the opportunity to become members of Dr Anna Maria Beck's "Fokus & Flow" community for four months.

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New insights into an almost forgotten society in northern Ethiopia

In his homeland - the Tigray region of Ethiopia - civil war is raging. The local university in Mekelle, where he worked as a research employee at the Institute for History and Cultural Heritage, had to be closed. For researchers like Fesseha Berhe…

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Establishment of a sustainable national research data infrastructure – Gotha Research Campus is part of it

The research institutions located on the Gotha Research Campus of the University of Erfurt - Gotha Research Library and Gotha Research Centre as well as the Centre for Transcultural Studies/Perthes Collection - are participating together with other…

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A Treasury of Cartography – 20 Years of the Gotha Perthes Collection at the Gotha Research Library

It is a treasure trove of cartography – the Gotha Perthes Collection. It was acquired 20 years ago by the Free State of Thuringia in 2003 with the support of the "Kulturstiftung der Länder" and integrated into the Gotha Research Library of the…

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Exhibition about "Freemasons and Mysteries of Egypt in Gotha"

Under the title "Freimaurer und Mysterien Ägyptens in Gotha" (Freemasons and Mysteries of Egypt in Gotha), the Friedenstein Castle Foundation Gotha is showing a new exhibition in the Ducal Museum from April 23 to October 15, 2023. The scientific…

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