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Changed opening hours during the lecture-free period

Please note: Some of the University of Erfurt’s learning and support services have altered opening hours or are closed during the lecture-free period.

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From hagiographies to contemporary literature: Lina Thiede awarded the Gotha Library Fellowship

The Gotha Research Library at the University of Erfurt has always been a place where knowledge is gathered and history is researched. Historians, theologians and philologists usually make up the majority of those who engage with the library’s rich…

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HeatFuture Lab: How will heat change our everyday lives, our health and the medicine of the future?

What will a hot summer feel like in the future? And how can cities, healthcare and we ourselves cope better with heat? Questions like these are the focus of the HeatFuture Lab Thuringia, which the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the…

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Maintenance work on the University of Erfurt’s Wi-Fi network

The University Computer and Media Centre (URMZ) has announced that, due to maintenance work, there may be brief, approximately ten-minute outages in the University of Erfurt’s Wi-Fi network between 6 am and 8 am each day from 29 July to 6 August.

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Conversation Café: A chat over coffee. The past and present of people with disabilities

The "Differenz – Transformation – Zusammenhalt"(DiTZu) project, based at the Department of History at the University of Erfurt, is hosting a discussion café on Friday 16 October. Entitled “Schnack am Kaffeetisch”, the event will take place from 4 pm…

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Hannes Seifert has been awarded a "Fellowship for Innovation in Digital Higher Education"

For his project "AI-generated video vignettes to promote professional competence in the dual teacher training programme in Mathematics (KIVIMA)", Hannes Seifert, a research assistant in the subject area of Mathematics Education at the Faculty of…

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Call for entries for the 2026 Dalberg Prize for transdisciplinary research by early-career researchers

The Erfurt Academy of Non-Profit Sciences, in collaboration with the state’s universities, is inviting applications for the 2026 Dalberg Prize for transdisciplinary research by early-career researchers. This Thuringian Academy Prize brings research…

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Hartmut Rosa elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt and Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, has been elected an International Fellow of the British Academy. The Academy thereby recognises…

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