Working at the University

At the University of Erfurt, more than 600 employees in research and teaching as well as in the administrative area ensure that the university, with its approximately 6000 students, can successfully assert itself as one of the most important educational institutions in the region.

The University of Erfurt as an employer

Not only as a place to study, but also as a workplace, the university is exciting, versatile and keeps up with the times in the lively scientific landscape. The University of Erfurt relies on its excellently qualified staff and supports them in various personnel development measures and through further training in order to meet the daily challenges in the competition for resources and minds.

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Job offers Current vacancies
Career support
Training opportunities Competence-oriented personnel development
[Translate to English:] Ausbildung an der Uni Erfurt
Training professions Overview training professions

Current continuing education and training opportunities in research, teaching and administration

For good reason – your advantages

The fact that employment in the education and science sector is not only meaningful, but above all socially relevant, is certainly one reason why people work at the University of Erfurt. What's more, as a staff member in the public sector, you have many advantages – from collectively agreed benefits to discounts on some insurance policies and company pension schemes. The University of Erfurt offers you even more: numerous opportunities for further education and personal skills development, flexible working hours, an annual bonus, family-friendly meeting times, (flexible) childcare options, as well as the opportunity to work remotely and from home. Your workplace is also easily accessible by bus and train – you can take advantage of our job ticket offer. The university also offers plenty of free parking spaces for car drivers. Our staff also appreciate our extensive range of company health promotion programmes, the sports activities offered by the university sports club, as well as events such as the campus festival and our company outings. And you can have your say and help shape things – in various committees that you can not only elect, but also stand as a candidate for.

You can find more information on selected offers here:

Studierende Eltern mit Kind auf dem Campus der Universität Erfurt
[Translate to English:] Mitarbeiter in Sporthalle

Family-friendly university

Families welcome! The University of Erfurt strongly supports the creation of suitable framework conditions in order to combine private and professional requirements as well as possible.

more information about work and family

Workplace health promotion

The University of Erfurt not only wants to protect the health and wellbeing of its employees and students, but also to promote it in a targeted manner through company health management. To this end, it offers a variety of activities – from the "Active Break" to the Health Day.

more information on workplace health promotion

sports offer of the USV

The Universitätssportverein Erfurt e.V. (USV Erfurt) provides the entire university sports programme for students and employees of the University and the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt. With more than 150 courses in over 80 sports, USV Erfurt offers a very wide range of sporting activities on a mass sports basis.

Offer of the USV

[Translate to English:] Haltestelle Straßenbahn
[Translate to English:] Studentin am Computer

Competence-oriented personnel development

Staff training and development in the academic and non-academic, i.e. science administration, areas have also become increasingly important for universities. Competence-orientated human resources development is therefore one of the strategic fields of action to which the university is also increasingly devoting itself and has established and is continuing to expand offers to provide its staff with targeted support. The offerings range from the acquisition of key competences to university didactics, targeted further training and health management.

our competence-oriented personnel development programmes at a glance

Job ticket

As a staff member at the University of Erfurt, with the VMT job ticket you benefit from a particularly favourable fare in local public transport and travel for a monthly all-inclusive price in all local public transport services (local trains, S-Bahn, bus, tram) of the partners of the Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen as often as you like within your chosen tariff zone.

further information on the job ticket for our employees

Electronic journals offered by the Erfurt University Library

In addition to its reference collection, Erfurt University Library offers a wide range of electronic journals, some of which you can access from home. With "PressReader.com", for example, it provides an international electronic daily newspaper portal which gives access to more than 4,000 newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world – in the library and from home.

Information from the University Library for our employees about the "e-library" service

Are you new to the University of Erfurt?

In our intranet (login required) we have collected important topics and links for a good start.

to the Website "New at the University of Erfurt"