Information about handling the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Students and staff (teaching staff, lecturers, guest lecturers and employees) at the University of Erfurt. Persons who:

• had contact with a sick person
• who are staying abroad, but who cannot return to Germany due to safety regulations in the sense of the quarantine measure
• are themselves ill (with unspecific general symptoms or respiratory problems)
• are in quarantine;

please report immediately by telephone or e-mail to your superior and in Department 2: Personnel at e-mail: personal@uni-erfurt.de (employees) or in Department 1: Studies and Teaching at e-mail: studierendenangelegenheiten@uni-erfurt.de (students). Together with you, the colleagues will then discuss the further procedure, such as the possibility of teleworking.

The Office for Equal Opportunities and Family Affairs has compiled all the important information for you on its website and is also available for further questions and advice.

>> see also the "Family at the university" website

The Health Office of the City of Erfurt has named the Medical Care Centre Dr. Kielstein as the central information point for returnees from risk areas – with and without symptoms. Please call 0361 601 09 30 and arrange an appointment for a smear test the results of which will be available within 48 hours. You can reach the "Kassenärztlicher Notdienst" outside the office hours of the (family doctor) practices by calling 116 117.

In the meantime, there are also quick test facilities in the cities and districts. For Erfurt, for example, the free citizen tests are offered at the DRK test centre in Mühlhäuser Str. 76. The city of Erfurt also has a list of doctors' practices that perform antigen rapid tests on its Corona website.

The University of Erfurt has set up a crisis team. It continuously assesses the very rapidly changing situation regarding the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and makes recommendations to the Presidential Board regarding suitable protective measures. The crisis team follows the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute in its assessment and is in close contact with the Student services organisation (Studierendenwerk), the city of Erfurt, the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society and the other Thuringian universities.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the crisis management team developed a catalogue of measures, the implementation of which is intended to protect the health of employees, students and other people. These measures include postponing the start of lectures in the summer semester, temporarily suspending campus attendance, switching to digital teaching and learning formats, temporarily suspending business trips and making working hours more flexible. In addition, a protection concept has been drawn up which will be updated as necessary. The current version can be found here.

The courses in the winter semester 2020/21 were initially planned in hybrid form, but now take place against the backdrop of the current infection situation with the extensive use of digital teaching formats. This also applies to the examinations. Since the further course of the pandemic is currently difficult to estimate, the University of Erfurt is also planning teaching for the summer semester 2021 to be largely online. Should the pandemic situation improve noticeably, a return to face-to-face teaching - even during the current semester - is possible.

Students are asked to contact their teachers by e-mail first if they need advice. We ask for your understanding that there are still some, especially organisational, questions that remain unanswered. We will do our best to clarify them as quickly as possible and provide you with up-to-date information on this website.

Until further notice, the following instructions apply to students and employees (teaching staff, lecturers, guest lecturers and employees) at the University of Erfurt. Persons who:

• who had contact with a sick person;
• who are staying abroad, but who cannot return to Germany due to safety regulations in the sense of the quarantine measure;
• are themselves ill (with unspecific general symptoms or respiratory problems)
• are in quarantine;

please report immediately by telephone or e-mail to your superior and in Department 2: Personnel at e-mail: personal@uni-erfurt.de (employees) or in Department 1: Registrar‘s Office at e-mail: studierendenangelegenheiten@uni-erfurt.de (students). Together with you, the colleagues will then discuss the further procedure, such as the possibility of teleworking. The Health Office of the City of Erfurt has named the Medical Care Centre Dr. Kielstein as the central information point for returnees from risk areas – with and without symptoms. There, a smear test can be taken by telephone on +49 (0)361 6010930 and the results will be available within 48 hours. Please note that the infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is notifiable. You can reach the Kassenärztlicher Notdienst outside the office hours of the (family doctor) practices by calling 116117.

With simple measures you can help to protect yourself and others from the corona virus:

• When coughing or sneezing, keep the greatest possible distance from other people - and it is best to turn away.
• Sneeze or cough into the crook of your arm or into a handkerchief - and then dispose of the handkerchief in a bin with a lid.
• Washing hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water for at least 20 seconds is considered a sufficient hygiene measure. In particular, this hygiene measure must be taken after blowing the nose, sneezing or coughing. 

A brochure from the Federal Centre for Health Education provides further tips. (only available in german)

The Robert Koch Institute has published an orientation guide on this.

The university has established a corresponding procedure for this:

1. A person (student, employee, external service provider) at the University of Erfurt is tested positive for an infection with the COVID-19 virus.
2. The University of Erfurt will be informed by the responsible public health department and/or the person who tested positive at gesundheit@uni-erfurt.de or by the university management.
3. On the basis of the attendance lists or appointment confirmations (calendar entries), the contact persons of category I (persons who have been in contact with the person tested positive for more than 15 minutes) are identified and informed.
    These persons are given a quarantine order by the responsible health authority (not the university itself) and are usually tested for infection with the COVID-19 virus.
4. All persons who have been in contact with category I contact persons are initially category II contact persons. For these persons, there is a low risk of infection due to the existing regulations according to the protection concept of the University of Erfurt (definition by the RKI). Only if a positive test result is obtained for a category I contact person do category II contact persons become category I contact persons within the meaning of the above-mentioned regulations.

Example case student A from seminar B is tested positive:

• information for all seminar participants incl. teacher C
• participants, teachers and persons who have been in contact with the person who tested positive for more than 15 minutes are contact persons of category I and receive a quarantine order from the public health department
• colleagues of teacher C who were in the same breakfast room or similar are contact persons of category II.

It is important,

• that the rooms are cleaned in accordance with the infection protection concept;
• that all persons keep an eye on their contacts as a precaution in order to be able to provide information as quickly as possible in an emergency.

(status: 28.10.2020)

the paper for download

In addition to the existing test offers for all citizens, the University of Erfurt will make Corona self-tests available to its employees who mainly work on campus rather than in a home office and have direct contact with third parties (e.g. students, suppliers, tradesmen), probably from 12 April.

This is to enable two tests per person per working week. The state is not providing any additional funding for this, so the university is funding it from its own resources. The voluntary tests will be distributed directly to the relevant departments.

Note: Free testing opportunities are also available in the respective cities and districts. For Erfurt, for example, the free citizenship tests are offered at the DRK test centre at Mühlhäuser Str. 76.

The city of Erfurt has a list of medical practices that perform rapid antigen tests on its Corona website.

Cafeteria
Monday to Friday: 11 to 14 hrs

"Glasbox"
currently closed

Café "Hörsaal 7"
currently closed

Campus-Café "Hilgenfeld"
Monday to Friday, 10 to 16 hrs for take away food and drinks

Department 2: Personnel ("Dezernat 2: Personal") has prepared an information sheet [in German only]. There you will also find a corresponding form for recording working hours, which applies to employees covered by electronic time recording (flexitime), i.e. employees in technical and administrative departments, but not to professors and academic staff.

For the support that the University Computer and Media Center provides, please click here. Apart from this the University Computer and Media Center provides appropriate information on the possibilities of organizing video conferences on its service pages. (Attention: Login required).

Yes, the post office in the Erfurt University Library building is open. The mailbox at the main entrance to the campus is emptied regularly. (Please note the special opening hours over the turn of the year.)

No, this is not possible for security reasons. The WebDAV service can be used for encrypted access to business drives. The URMZ staff will be happy to answer any questions and provide support.

Since 4 May 2020, the University Library of Erfurt has been open again. The library provides up-to-date information about its services and the regulations for ensuring hygiene protection measures on its  web pages.

You will find the latest employee information on the internal service pages of the university under "Personnel matters" in the subheading "Work and Corona". We also draw attention to the publication of new information on our Corona information page in the "News" section.

On Saturdays and Sundays, the 53 marked workstations in the Audimax building, rooms 007 and 0012, as well as the cloakroom, are accessible via the guard at the main entrance to the campus. Should further places be required, those on the ground floor of building 1 can be made available on request.

Yes, it has been open again since 23 June 2021.