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Climate Control for Historical Manuscripts and Prints

Due to the seasonally low temperatures in the stacks of the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt, it is currently necessary for conservation reasons to air-condition ordered titles before use.

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New Research Project Investigates Human Heat Protection Behaviour

Over the next three years, the German Federal Ministry of Health is supporting a new research project entitled "HEATCOM" at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB) at the University of Erfurt in cooperation with the University of Bamberg…

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Conference on Johann Christian von Boineburg

In collaboration with the Research Centre for Early Modern Natural Law, Professor Martin Mulsow, Director of the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, and Professor Gábor Gángó (Budapest) are organising a conference entitled: "Natural…

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Professor Alena Buyx as Guest at the Start of the Lecture Series in the Winter Semester

The University of Erfurt, the Thuringian Parliament and the FunkeMedien Group will continue their joint public lecture series on the topic of "Artificial Intelligence" in the winter semester 2023/24. The first event is on Thursday, 16 November. The…

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Distorted Memories of the COVID19 Pandemic

In a recently published article in the renowned journal "Nature", researchers from Germany, Austria and the USA show how social polarisation distorts our memory of the COVID19 pandemic and thus makes it more difficult to prepare for future crises.…

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BMBF joint project "Dictatorship Experiences and Transformation" is funded again

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is supporting the joint project "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation", in which the Universities of Erfurt and Jena, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and the…

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New Research Network on "Knowledge Histories of the Unavailable Self"

Over the next three years, the German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund a new research network with around 41,000 euros, which will start work in January 2024 under the title "Knowledge Histories of the Unavailable Self. Individual and Collective…

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Research Group "Voluntariness" Receives Another 2.2 Million Euros in DFG Funding

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will continue to support the research group "Voluntariness", in which researchers from the University of Erfurt, FSU Jena and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg work together, in a second funding phase. The…

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