Campus tour

Department 1: Registrar‘s Office supports students and prospective students in all aspects of studying at the University of Erfurt.

The student advice and counselling advises on topics such as: range of courses, further education, admission requirements, application, admission restrictions/procedures, aptitude assessment procedures and aptitude tests, semester contribution, re-registration, leave semester.

The student affairs department provides support on topics such as: organisation and planning of studies, examination system, taking examinations, notification of sickness, crediting of study and examination achievements and changes of study direction.

location: Verwaltungsgebäude, middle entrance

The Erfurt School of Education combines all tasks of teacher training within the university. It also combines teacher training with research, further education and the promotion of young academics. The Erfurt School of Education creates space for diverse cooperation between all educational institutions in teacher training in national and international networks.

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Erfurt School of Education
Erfurt School of Education bei Facebook

location: Mitarbeitergebäude 1

The International Office promotes the internationalisation of the University of Erfurt and the development and maintenance of its numerous international co-operations and partnerships. It supports university members in their international activities.

For international applicants and students at the University of Erfurt, the International Office is the first point of contact for application and admission, but also for questions and problems during their studies.

The International Office provides German students and graduates with advice and information on exchange programmes at the University of Erfurt and on study visits and internships abroad. In addition, the staff are always looking for German students to act as tutors for exchange students from abroad.

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International Office
International Office on Facebook
location: Verwaltungsgebäude, right entrance, ground floor

The Language Centre offers language courses for various foreign languages, which lead students to the language certificates that are compulsory or optionally recommended in the individual courses at the University of Erfurt.

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Language centre
location: Lehrgebäude 1, 2nd floor

In addition to the services in the student residences, refectories, childcare and financing of studies (BAföG), the Studierendenwerk offers an extensive range of counselling services (legal and social counselling, psychosocial counselling).

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Studierendenwerk Thüringen
Studierendenwerk Thüringen on Facebook
location: Mitarbeitergebäude 1 / glass box / info point at the cafeteria

We offer doctoral students and postdocs a comprehensive range of services across all institutions. These include the promotion and development of career paths, expanded services in the university and research library, and academic continuing education programs. The team of the Staff Unit Research and Graduate Service will be happy to advise you.

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Academic career at the University of Erfurt
Career Funding
location: Verwaltungsgebäude, right entrance, ground floor

With a Social Impact Campus, the University of Erfurt would like to promote innovative, responsible and intercultural action - among students and employees alike. The start-up service, located on the 1st floor of staff building 2, is there to help and advise you.

The services include, for example:

Start-up advice(German only)

Events & teaching(German only)

Inspiration(German only)

Important tasks of the University Computer and Media Center (URMZ) are to maintain the campus network with the connection to the gigabit science network of DFN, as well as the telecommunication system, the central servers (mail, WWW, DNS, HIS, etc.) and the user directory. Furthermore, the staff members take care of the procurement of hardware and software and the support and lending of media technology (data projectors, AV technology, video conferences).

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University Computer and Media Center (URMZ)
Media technology
location: Centre for Communication and Information (KIZ)

Our libraries – Erfurt University Library and Gotha Research Library – combine new beginnings and tradition. With their modern information and media holdings and historical collections, they support research, teaching and studies at the University of Erfurt. They also make their historical collections and special holdings available to national and international research.

To the virtual tour

Today's university library was opened in 2000 as the "central laboratory of the humanities". Its holdings extend over 750,000 volumes on open access shelves and 400,000 volumes on magazine shelves. The University Library brings together media from all subject areas under one roof and offers sufficient space for reading and working.

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Erfurt University Library
Lesezeichen: Blog of Erfurt University Library

The large reading room of the University Library is open to all library visitors and allows them to work with the holdings on site. For library users and members of the university there are also 360 user workstations with PC or WLAN access and 18 carrels available. Workstations with table sockets also allow mobile working. The library building also houses five group work rooms, a lecture room, the media library, the exhibition room and a special reading room.

Searching and finding literature:

Discovery
OPAC and other catalogues
Datenbases (DBIS)
Elektronic journals

The Bibliotheca Amploniana is the world's largest collection of manuscripts by a late medieval scholar still largely intact and at the same time one of the most important collections of medieval manuscripts in Germany. Today it is the central segment of the holdings of manuscripts and old prints held in the Special Collection of the Erfurt University Library.

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Amploniana manuscript collection
further collections

The Gotha Research Library is located in Friedenstein Castle in Gotha and is one of the largest German early modern libraries with important collections of manuscripts, old prints and maps. The Gotha Research Centre is affiliated to the library. It sees itself as a centre for early modern research and has the special task of organising conferences and lectures on the basis of the holdings of the research library, as well as serving as a platform for scholarship holders, guest scientists and research projects.

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Gotha Research Library
Blog of the Library
Wissen.Sammeln.Gotha on Facebook
location: Schlossplatz 1, Gotha

The Gotha Perthes Collection was created from the historical holdings of the Gotha-based publisher Justus Perthes. It provides unique source material on the development of cartography and geography in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the coherence and interconnection of its holdings, the collection documents the last phase of the Age of Discovery, during which the interior of the non-European continents and the polar regions were explored.

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Gotha Perthes Collection

The new three-storey Centre for Communication and Information (KIZ) enriches the campus of the University of Erfurt with a multi-purpose building. In addition to lecture halls 1 and 2 with 420 and 160 seats, the KIZ also houses the University Computer and Media Center (URMZ) with four additional PC pool rooms with 25 workstations each. In addition, extension areas for the library magazine have been realized in the basement and equipped with compact shelves. The building is located on the meadow between the library and Nordhäuser Straße.

University Computer and Media Center (URMZ)

The Lehrgebäude 1 (LG 1), which borders the Audimax building, is located next to the entrance area of the university. This building houses the following areas and facilities in addition to lecture halls 3 and 4:

Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

Language Centre

Lehrgebäude 2  (LG 2) is located to the right of the entrance area of the university and diagonally opposite teaching building 1, where lecture halls 5 and 6 are located.

Faculty of Education

subject area music

The Lehrgebäude 3 (LG 3) is located in the middle of the old town of Erfurt, Am Hügel 1, in the former School of Arts and Crafts, a listed Art Nouveau building built in 1904. In this building are:

subject area art

subject area music

The Lehrgeäude 4 (LG 4) is located on the left hand side of the campus, seen from the entrance of the University of Erfurt. In this building you will find the

Faculty of Philosophy

Teaching building 5 is located outside the campus at Puschkinstraße 19, and due to the current construction work in Lehrgebäude 3, the subject area music is located here.

The teaching building is located in the cloister complex of Erfurt Cathedral – an island in itself and yet right in the centre of the city. Martin Luther, who lived in Erfurt to study the liberal arts, once sat in the lecture rooms. The staff offices are located in the Villa Martin on the campus.

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Faculty of Catholic Theology

Faculty of Catholic Theology on Facebook

The Brandt School, originally located on the grounds of the Helios Clinic, is scheduled to move into the new research building between the KIZ and the Erfurt University Library on campus in 2023, after its completion. Until then, its front office is located in teaching building 1, room 0029.

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Willy Brandt School of Public Policy

Willy Brandt School of Public Policy on Facebook

The University Learning Workshop is a place of learning within the university, which through its equipment with tools and materials makes it possible to realize learning as producing and designing, as experimenting and testing, as acting and learning with all senses. Especially students of teaching professions have the opportunity to enrich their theoretical studies with practical experience.

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Blog of the University Learning Workshop

Didactic workshop for science and technology teaching

The Science Education Laboratory supports students in the development of didactic-methodical competences in science and technology education. The offer includes workstations, a literature collection, teaching materials and advice on subject didactic questions.

go to Science education laboratory

The high-rise building at the main entrance to the University of Erfurt is the Mitarbeitergebäude 1 (MG 1). It houses the Erfurt School of Education (ESE), offices of various departments of the Faculty of Philosophy, the BAföG office of the Student services organisation (Studierendenwerk Thüringen) and the Senate Hall on the 11th floor. The offices of the Staff Council and the Student Council of the University of Erfurt can be found in the annex of MG 1.

A photovoltaic system was installed during the 2010 façade renovation, which produces around 17,300 kWh of solar electricity per year, i.e. a saving of around 2,500 euros per year in unused electricity.

In the Mitarbeitergebäude 2 (MG 2) there are currently some staff offices of the Faculty of Education.

Curious and enthusiastic, the children experience developmental and life processes in nature up close and personal in school garden lessons and thus understand how plants, animals, microorganisms, abiotic environmental factors and man himself are networked with each other. The University of Erfurt is the only one in Germany to offer the subject school garden.

Students on the Master of Education - Primary School course of study thus have the opportunity to acquire specialist scientific and didactic skills in a very special subject. In the school garden they can immediately apply the knowledge they have acquired.

The Administration Building (VG) houses Department 1: Registrar's Office, the International Office, the University Management, University Communications, Research and Graduate Service, Quality Management in Studies and Teaching, Controlling and Internal Auditing as well as the Departments of Human Resources, Financial Services and Facility Management.

A large part of the experimental laboratory research at the University of Erfurt has so far been distributed among three laboratories – the Herrmann-Ebbinghaus Laboratory, the ELab of the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences and the laboratory of the Graduate Research Group on Infant Research in Thuringia. Against the background of the increased demand for laboratory capacity across all faculties, particularly in the areas of health communication, educational research and linguistics, the University of Erfurt is now taking a consistent step towards the future: The Erfurt Laboratory for Empirical Research – or ErfurtLab for short – was founded on 1st July 2019. The existing laboratories will now be merged, expanded and institutionally anchored in a central one.

More information: Erfurt Laboratory for Empirical Research (ErfurtLab)

The Forschungsgebäude 2 (house 38) is located in the direct neighbourhood of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Nordhäuser Straße 74 and offers workplaces for doctoral students and postdocs in the EPPP research groups. In addition, a lounge has been set up in "Haus 38", which can also be used as a lounge as well as a common seminar and work room.

Gotha Research Campus: Gotha Research Centre, Gotha Research Library and Gotha Perthes Collection

The Gotha Research Centre, the Gotha Research Library and the Gotha Perthes Collection are scientific institutions of the University of Erfurt. They are located in Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, on the castle hill and in the Perthes Forum.

The Gotha Research Centre is concerned with the history of knowledge in the early modern period, i.e. both "high" forms of knowledge (philosophy, scholarship, scientific knowledge) and more basal, often less institutionally formed, experience-saturated forms of knowledge (administrative knowledge, practical knowledge, lay knowledge). One focus is on the practices that generate and shape knowledge. In addition to knowledge in text form, the researchers investigate both pictorial knowledge - such as graphics and maps - and knowledge things as material knowledge stores. Since 2013, the Gotha Research Centre has also been researching topics of knowledge-cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. One focus here is the Perthes Collection. In addition, global historical approaches to research with the Gotha collections have also been made fruitful since then.
The Gotha Research Library preserves a unique fund of manuscripts, old prints and maps. It is one of the most important German libraries with historical book collections. Among the approximately 694,000 works are

• 11.436 occidental and oriental manuscripts
• about 350.000 prints of the 15th to 19th century
• the Perthes Collection with 185,000 individual maps, 800 linear metres of archival materials and an outstanding historical cartographic-geographical library with 120,000 volumes from the former Perthes Verlag Gotha

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Gotha Research Centre
Gotha Research Library
Gotha Perthes Collection

Dormitories of the Student services organisation

The Student services organisation is responsible for a total of eight student residences in Erfurt. The rents are all-inclusive rents, i.e. all operating costs including water, electricity and heating are already included and range between 104 € and 299 €. Most rooms are furnished (bed, table, chair, cupboard, shelf) and modern fitted kitchens with stove and refrigerator can be used. However, kitchen appliances, cutlery, cooking and eating utensils are not included in the kitchen equipment.

Residences on the campus:

Alfred-Weber-Platz 2
Alfred-Weber-Platz 5
Nordhäuser Straße 78
Nordhäuser Straße 79
Plauener Weg 8
Saalestraße 5/6 (Max-Kade-Haus)

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current offers of the Student services organisation

Further information about living in Erfurt and tips for finding accommodation can be found on the pages about living in Erfurt.

Living in Erfurt
Tips for finding accomodation

The Puzzle box of the University of Erfurt, a sustainable exchange market for household objects, is moving and will open its doors in the basement of Lehrgebäude 2 (teaching building), room 3b, in the summer semester 2020. The offer is aimed at students who come to Erfurt from abroad to study and who have a need for household items such as pots, crockery, cutlery etc.

Interested parties can contact the International Office by e-mail and make an appointment: international.puzzlekiste@uni-erfurt.de