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New publication: "Habitus, Diskriminierung und Bildungsaufstieg"

A new book by Rainer Benkmann, entitled "Habitus, Diskriminierung und Bildungsaufstieg", has been published by Transcript publishing house. In it, he examines Deniz Ohde’s novel "Streulicht" from the perspective of educational biography research.

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How does effective revision work?

What is the best way to prepare for new learning material? A new research project entitled “The Design and Mechanisms of Learning Preparation Methods from a Cognitive Load Perspective” is set to begin at the University of Erfurt in October, which…

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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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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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ICCA: The University of Erfurt welcomes mathematicians from around the world to an international conference on campus

From 7 to 11 September, the University of Erfurt will host this year’s ICCA, the International Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematics. Launched in 1985 at the University of Canterbury in the UK, the aim of these…

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Scholarships advertised at the Gotha Research Campus

The University of Erfurt is once again inviting applications for Herzog-Ernst Scholarships and Hiob-Ludolf Fellowships at its Gotha Research Campus for 2027, for research into the Gotha collections, primarily at the Gotha Research Library.…

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