Your start: Student Orientation Days at the University of Erfurt

New at the university? Information for first-year students at the University of Erfurt

Student Orientation Days for the start of studies in the winter semester from 9 to 12 October 2023

President Walter Bauer-Wabnegg welcomes all students and freshmen to the University of Erfurt (in German)

Vorschaubild Willkommen STET Präsident

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Well prepared for your studies

Starting a degree programme, transferring to another university or moving to another city is a big step that we want to support you with. In the week before classes start, we offer Student Orientation Days (STET). If you are a first-semester student starting your Bachelor's degree, students from the higher semesters, your student tutors, will be there to support you. In addition to preparing you for your studies, you will learn many interesting and exciting things about studying and student life in Erfurt.

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Prerequisite for the Student Orientation Days

Offers for all students

Information on language tests (placement test)

Studentinnen im Seminarraum

Placement test for German as a Foreign Language (DaF), English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

No placement test is necessary for pure beginners' courses (A1). However, if you have previous knowledge of a foreign language, you must take a placement test. This applies to the languages DaF, English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

For all other languages, please contact the respective lecturer regarding the placement test.

Further information and dates

Registration for the OPT (English placement test)

Services offered by the University Library at the beginning of your studies

Innenansicht der Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt

The library has prepared various offers for you for the start of your studies.

Library (guided) tours

The University Library offers guided tours during which you can get to know the library on site and its most important services. The dates are set for Bachelor students by the student tutors.

Information for first semester students on the website

We have compiled the most important information for you so that you can also familiarise yourself with using the library online.

Offers of the Equality and Family Office

The Equal Opportunity Officer advises every person confidentially on their concerns, including questions about the compatibility of studies and child(ren) or caring responsibilities in the family, experiences with sexual discrimination, harassment and violence, or questions about the use of gender-equitable language.

Consultation appointments (by telephone, via Webex video conference or in the office) can be made directly by emailing gleichstellungsbeauftragte@uni-erfurt.devereinbart.

Open office hours of the Equality and Family Office:
Thursday, 12.10.2023, 13.00 - 14.00

Teaching building 1, ground floor, rooms 107 and 108

Networking and exchange

For all students at the University of Erfurt, the Moodle room "Studying with a child" offers information about studying with child/ren, as well as help and tips from other studying parents and networking opportunities among themselves.

Name: Studying with a child

Enrolment key: StudierenmitKind

Digital teaching: prerequisites, tools and portals

Not only since the Corona pandemic necessitated new teaching formats at universities, digitisation in the field of study and teaching has been on the rise. The possibilities are diverse and the need for information correspondingly high. The University of Erfurt offers the following teaching formats, among others:

  • synchronous teaching & learning: simultaneously, live (e.g. in the virtual learning room)
  • asynchronous teaching & learning: not simultaneously, with flexible time and room arrangements
  • hybrid teaching & learning: a mixture of distance and face-to-face teaching
  • "flipped classroom": knowledge transfer is completely or partially outsourced to an explanatory video. The time with the university lecturer is used for questions, consolidation and practice.

On the page "Digital teaching at the University of Erfurt" you will find an overview of the most important questions (and of course answers) about digital teaching.

Digital teaching at the University of Erfurt

Welcome to the University of Erfurt!

Faculty of Education

Vorschaubild STET Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

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Faculty of Philosophy

Vorschaubild Video STET Philosophische Fakultät

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Contact

Organisation STET

Anne Zimmermann
Student advice and counselling
(Department 1: Registrar‘s Office)
Verwaltungsgebäude / first floor (front entrance)
Office hours
in person: Mondays to Thursdays 12-15 p.m. and by appointment

by telephone: Monday to Friday 9-11:30 a.m.

Faculty of Catholic Theology

Preview Video STET Faculty of Catholic Theology

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Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

Willkommem STET Staatswissenschaften

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Brochure Guide to Starting Your Studies

A-levels in the bag and now? Meet new people - in a great city to live and work in? An affordable flat with good transport connections, a wide range of cultural activities, cool pubs and leisure activities? We have a wonderful idea: study at the University of Erfurt.

With the "Guide to Starting Your Studies: Studying in Erfurt" we would like to arouse your curiosity, provide you with initial basic information about studying at the University of Erfurt, answer the most frequently asked questions and, of course, give you the names of contact persons for further questions.

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Tutorials

Tutorial Webex: Registration for first semester students

Registrierung Webex

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Webex Tutorial: Participate in the Meeting

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