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Erfurt Campus Cup 2026

Tue, 19 May 2026 09:59:00 +0200

After last year's successful premiere, the "Erfurt Campus Cup 2026" will take place over three days and three locations this time. It kicks off on 22 June on the campus of Erfurt University of Applied Sciences in Altonaer Straße. From 3 pm, you can try your hand at floorball, cornhole, spead shot and e-sports, among other things. The health insurance company “Techniker Krankenkasse” will be on site with a smoothie bike. The event continues on 23 June from 10 am with the street soccer tournament and 3x3 basketball in front of Anger 1, where the Health Medical University and iba are located in the immediate vicinity. The University Cup is supported by BARMER, among others. There will be a great atmosphere on the court throughout the day. The Erfurt “Campus Run” and the "Baggern um die Ehre" beach volleyball matches on the university campus in the Nordhäuser Straße will conclude the Cup on 24 June from 3 pm. In the supporting programme, you can try your hand at rugby, teqball and flunky ball. At 4.30 pm, there will be a Bambini run and a bouncy castle for the sporty youngsters. The team runners take to the track from 5 pm. They will run on a 400 metre circuit around the campus meadow. In the individual competition, five laps will be completed on a 2-kilometre course on campus and the Thuringian university champions in the 10-kilometre road race will be determined again in 2026. The award ceremony for all competitions will take place afterwards at the big "Campus Cup Party" in the "Retronom".

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Invitation to the kick-off: "CampusVital – Stay healthy!"

Mon, 18 May 2026 11:50:08 +0200

The aim is to integrate exercise, health and mental strength into everyday student life in the long term under the title "CampusVital – Stay healthy!" to sustainably integrate exercise, health and mental strength into everyday student life and improve the well-being of all university members. The plans include:

regular exercise programmes and active breaks on campus;
marked campus exercise routes;
freely accessible sports and exercise equipment;
exercise and health programmes on nutrition, sleep and stress management;
the training of student exercise instructors for low-threshold exercise programmes.

The project is being implemented by the Erfurt University Sports Club (USV) in close cooperation with the University Health Management and students from the subject areas of Sports Science and Health Communication.

Those involved in the project invite you to the kick-off on 1 June from 3 to 7 pm on the terrace in front of the administration building of the University of Erfurt. Activities planned include a table football tournament, teqball, table tennis, cornhole, spikeball and basketball. At the table football tournament, a mini World Cup will be held from 4 pm with teams of two at eight table football tables. Registration is possible as an individual or team entry by e-mail to gesundheit@uni-erfurt.de is possible. All other activities can be tried out without registration. Table tennis starts at 5 p.m., Zumba fitness starts at 5.15 p.m., and at 6.15 p.m. there is the opportunity to go for a "taster run" together on the campus running tracks.

10th Erfurt Campus Run: Register now!

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Runners can compete on the 10 kilometre individual course or register for the 25x400 metre team run. In the individual competition, the Thuringian university champions in the 10-kilometre road race will be determined again in 2026. And even the little ones can take part again – in the Bambini run at 4.30 pm on the 400 metre course.

Jens Panse, organiser and president of the USV: "We are looking forward to exciting and fair competitions and hope that not only many runners will take to the course, but also many spectators will be there to support their teams."

The 10th Erfurt Campus Run is organised by the University of Erfurt in cooperation with the USV Erfurt. It is supported by the Thuringian Student Services Organisation (Sudierendenwerk) and the “AOK PLUS”, among others, and is also intended to make a contribution to university health promotion.

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"We want to make an offer that works for everyone"

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:11:00 +0100

As part of its Health Management Programme (UGM), the University of Erfurt is inviting all its members to take part in an online health survey between the end of April and mid-May 2026. The first part of the survey is aimed at students and employees and aims to evaluate the health services and the UGM, which is supported by AOK PLUS. The results are to serve as a basis for the discussion process and the updating of the "Healthy University of Erfurt" concept. The second part, which is only aimed at employees, deals with questions about the legally required psychological risk assessment. This should help to assess whether – and if so, which – measures need to be taken to improve the situation for employees. We spoke to President Professor Walter Bauer-Wabnegg and Christian Schellhardt, Head of Administration of the University of Erfurt, in advance about the background...

Medicine of the future: University of Erfurt team honoured in university competition

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:43:00 +0100

Other winners come from Berlin, Jena, Kaiserslautern, Koblenz, Munich, Regensburg, Weingarten and Wuppertal. They will all receive prize money of 10,000 euros each, which they can use to realise their project idea – from an exhibition to cookery evenings to a poetry competition – by the end of the year. In addition, the winning teams can attend training courses and events organised by "Wissenschaft im Dialog", including on research communication and public relations, social media, storytelling and event organisation.

The idea for the "HeatFuture Lab" originated from the ongoing project HEATCOM project and now offers the opportunity to further deepen scientific findings and disseminate them to the general public – in the spirit of participatory research and research communication geared towards the population as a whole, explains Dr Dominik Daube. He works as a postdoctoral researcher on the HEATCOM project at the University of Erfurt, which focuses on the question of how people in Germany behave in heat situations, which factors influence their protective behaviour and how interventions can contribute to health-promoting adaptation. Together with his colleague Sarah Pelull and student assistants, he now wants to implement the "HeatFuture Lab Thuringia" at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour.

"We are planning an interactive exhibition space in which visitors can simulate a hot summer in 2050 together with young researchers. Using AI-generated future images from real city photos, short AI-based heat sounds – instrumental soundscapes that reflect the mood of the scenes – and vivid representations of heat stress, visitors will be able to experience how heat can affect well-being, everyday life and health risks." Extreme conditions are not simulated in real life, but are made immersively comprehensible through visual, acoustic and narrative means. In one place in the room, heat can be experienced briefly and in a controlled manner via radiant heaters, but without posing any health risks. Dr Dominik Daube: “At the heart of all this is the question of how preventive, advisory and digital medical services of the future can support people in heat, for example through comprehensible information, orientation and low-threshold formats, e.g. telemedical consultation hours on heat days, digital warning and advisory services or heat-sensitive care structures.”

German University Championships in Athletics – University of Erfurt takes part!

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:01:00 +0100

The DHM is the flagship of university sport at national level. Every year, the German University Sports Association (adh) organises around 40 German University Championships in over 30 sports. The speciality: Hobby and amateur athletes compete together with cadre athletes. But of course it is not just about the pure comparison of performance at a high level, but also about combining aspects of competitive sport with student interests in meeting, communicating and exchanging ideas.

The championships are usually organised by adh member universities throughout Germany and allow students and university employees to participate as individual starters or in teams. As university sport is organised by the USV for the University and the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, the club will be hosting the DHM in 2026. "The USV athletics department has been organising the Thuringian University Championships in road running for nine years now. With the German University Championships, we have taken on responsibility for a national sporting event for the first time," says USV President Jens Panse, who is looking forward to exciting competitions in Erfurt.

Spectators are very welcome at the event in February. Admission is free!

Further information on the announcement and the provisional schedule can be found at https://www.adh.de/kalender/details/dhm-leichtathletik-halle-4/.

"Dies academicus" on the topic of "Neurodiversity"

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:34:00 +0100

Depending on the definition, statistically five to ten per cent of the population are neurodivergent. However, these neurological dispositions (e.g. AD(H)S, autism, dyscalculia, dyslexia and giftedness) are hardly visible in general awareness; there is (too) little knowledge and (too) many clichés. The “Dies academicus” on "Neurodiversity on Campus" in June is intended to increase knowledge and awareness, highlight the presence and relevance of the topic in university education (especially in teacher training), present our own research on the topic, open up information, participation and exchange formats and make the specific needs, competences and challenges of neurodivergent adults in studying and teaching visible.

All members of the university are addressed – whether neurotypical or neurodivergent, with or without previous contact with neurodivergence. On the day (free of committees and teaching), there will be four to five (parallel) time slots, for example short lectures and expert panels, workshops and poster presentations on relevant research and teaching projects on campus, networking opportunities and information stands.

You will find more information abput the programme in good time on our “Dies academicus” website and in our calendar of events.