University Communications

[Translate to English:] Laptop, Smartphone und Laptop

[Translate to English:] Zeitungen liegen auf dem Tisch

We are your contact persons in all questions of communication, i.e. attentive listeners, treasure hunters, meticulous enquirers, outside-the-box-thinkers, empathisers, contact-makers, good-word-finders, solution-presenters and experience designers.

In other words:
We are the Staff Unit University Communications. Talk to us, so that ideas become deeds and stories.

Our tasks

science communication

We answer press enquiries and put journalists in touch with our experts.
We issue photo and filming permits and provide image material.
We publish press releases and news from the University of Erfurt.
We suggest topics for the press in the form of interviews and essays.
We run the research blog and the podcast “WortMelder”.
We run two central YouTube channels for the University of Erfurt.
We create profiles of the University of Erfurt's research and third-party funded projects.
We present new publications by researchers at the University of Erfurt.
We advise and support scientists in their own knowledge transfer work.

online editing

We maintain the University's central websites and blogs.
We manage the University of Erfurt's central social media channels and advise university members on their work in social media.
We maintain the University of Erfurt's central event calendar.
We train university members so that they can work on the university's decentralised websites.

study marketing

We design and place advertisements for student marketing and maintain the university and degree programme profiles on online platforms for choosing a degree programme.
We run the blog "Ich mag meine Uni (‘I like my university’).
We provide the online tool “Studimat” for choosing a degree programme at the University of Erfurt.
We organise campus tours for school classes together with student campus specialists.
We represent the University of Erfurt in the Thuringian Study Marketing Network.
We provide information material about the university and the courses it offers.
We hold annual information days for prospective students (Open Day and Discovery Days).

events

We organise central events for the University of Erfurt: Open Days, Discovery Days, the Long Night of Sciences and the Erfurt Children's University.
We provide you with information and conference materials for your events.
We offer merchandising articles from the university in our online shop.

graphic

We design the University of Erfurt's central print products.
We support university members with questions about graphics and design in the corporate design of the University of Erfurt.
We take portrait photos of university members for display on their website.

There are various ways and channels to support you:

We report on research findings, new colleagues, third-party funding successes or major events in press releases and news.
We publish articles on research topics and current issues in our research blog "WortMelder".
We publish articles on research topics and current issues in our podcast.
We present new publications/monographs.
We publish profiles of research and externally funded projects at the University of Erfurt.
We organise interviews and expert enquiries with our academics.
We offer topics (essays) to the media.
We provide support with print products for research communication.
We publish your research video on our YouTube channel.
We would be delighted if you present your research at our "Long Night of Sciences"!
We flank all of this via our social media channels.

Just get in touch with us, we will be happy to advise you!