University of Erfurt Discovery Days - Experience studying up close from 16 to 20 June 2025

Attending the courses is primarily aimed at prospective students who have already shortlisted a few subjects.

For a rough orientation, we recommend visiting the university information day or taking advantage of the general offers such as the lecture on study orientation or the guided tours on the taster days.

To teachers: The University of Erfurt is happy to support you in your career and study choice teaching by taking part in the taster days. Our offers are suitable for grades 10 and up.

To attend courses on taster days, we recommend that you register with us in advance. We would like to prepare your visit in the best possible way and provide you with the important information in advance.

to register as an individual

to register as a school class

Info point at the campus

At our info point in the glass box at the main entrance, you can find out about all the offers and dates during the taster days from 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Friday until 2 p.m.). There you will receive your welcome bag and your taster days ID card.

No, you can decide for yourself whether you would like to attend only one day or several days of courses. With an entire discovery week, we can offer you the widest possible choice of subjects and suitable courses.

Not every course is suitable for trial participation. You will find our selected events in the programme overview.

go to the programme

Lectures begin 15 minutes after the stated time, colloquially known as "academic quarter", and end 15 minutes before the stated time. In exceptional cases you will find the indication "s.t." (sin tempore, translated: "without time"). These events take place punctually at the specified time.

The times are often indicated with the Latin additions "c.t." (cum tempore, translated: "with time"). For the sake of clarity, however, this information is not used in everyday university life.

If you would like to attend a course, please stay in the room until the end of the course.

You will quickly realise in the course catalogue that there are different types of events at a university - lectures, seminars and exercises/tutorials. During the discovery days, you have the opportunity to attend mainly lectures and seminars. In a lecture, a lecturer gives a 90-minute talk while the students sit in the lecture hall and mainly listen and take notes.

Seminars are different. Here, a small group of students deals with the subject matter in discussions, presentations or working groups.

Exercises/tutorials accompany the other courses and are not suitable as a taster event.

You are welcome to attend our courses alone or with friends. Sometimes it is easier to explore new things together.

However, please refrain from attending in larger groups. We are happy to arrange an individual appointment for class-sized groups. Please contact: marketing@uni-erfurt.de or use our registration form for school classes.

The University of Erfurt is a campus university, i.e. with a few exceptions (Department of Art, Music and Theology), all facilities, teaching buildings and staff offices are located on the campus at Nordhäuser Straße 63. The campus is easy to reach by public transport (tram line 3 or 6, "Universität" stop) or by car.

Travel information

The digital campus maps and the on-site maps will help you find your way around. You can already get to know the campus in a virtual tour.

Virtual tour at the University of Erfurt

When you register at our Info Point, you will also receive a campus map, among other things.

Do not put yourself under pressure. During the taster days, you will attend regular courses that students have already been taking for the whole semester. Therefore, your own requirement for attending the taster course should not be to be able to understand all the content covered in the course. Rather, it is about attending a real course and gaining a first impression of university life.

Individual advice

• Do you have questions about the content of individual courses? Contact our subject advisors (contact details on the programme pages).
  Courses of study A-Z
• Would you like to find out more about admission to a degree programme, enrolment, changing degree programmes or possible combinations? Our General Student Advisory Service will be happy to help you.
  General Student Advisory Service
• You want to know which subjects you can combine? Then start the Studimat.
  Studimat
• Would you like to find out more about the University of Erfurt, studying and the university location? Ask our student campus specialists or the representatives of the student councils of your chosen fields of study about their experiences.
  Campus Specialists
  Student Councils

Payment in the cafeteria is currently only possible without cash, i.e. with an EC card. All guests pay the "guest price". At the main entrance there is a glass box where you can buy sandwiches and hot drinks with your EC card.