Event series

Experience science up close: The Long Night of Sciences

It takes place every two years - the "smartest night of the year" or in other words: the "Long Night of Sciences" in Erfurt. Every year at the beginning of November, the city of Erfurt, together with the Erfurt universities, the HELIOS Clinic and numerous other companies and institutions, invites all Erfurt residents and guests to experience science in the truest sense of the word.

A whole evening of lectures, exhibitions, presentations and experiments. Diversity is guaranteed, because during the "Long Night of Sciences", scientists and experts from regional companies open the doors to their laboratories, cleanrooms, operating theatres, archives, lecture halls and production facilities. Visitors will have the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes, learn first-hand details of current research work and ask lots of questions. And of course, participation is also allowed.

When and where?
The next "Long Night of Sciences" will take place on 8 November 2024, starting at 6 pm.

Once a year Erfurt's children grow up. That's when the Erfurt Children's University takes place, always in autumn, where the little foxes set up their ears like the grown-ups in real lecture halls and bombard the children's conquerors of hearts, who are called professors here, with questions. Of course, there is also a real student ID card: As a visible sign of participation, the children can enter their name here and receive a stamp for each lecture attended. When the six stamp fields are full, a Children's University certificate can be hung on the wall. And so every year new exciting topics await the mini students. For example, why a rabbit does not need glasses. Or who this Mr Shakespeare actually was. Or why not every Cinderella can become a princess. No matter if  5 or 15 years – the events are made for different age groups, participation is free of charge.

More information about the Children's University and registration under: www.kinderuni-erfurt.de

Children's university "All about books": Meeting place for little bookworms

Every year in March the campus of the University of Erfurt becomes a meeting place for little bookworms. This is when the subject area of Primary School Education and Childhood Research organises the Children's University "All about books". The event is embedded in the Erfurt Children's Book Days and aims to make children curious about literature. For a week, children can sit like grown-ups in the lecture hall every day for a week and listen to a lecture that deals with the most diverse genres such as fairy tales, mythology, children's literature classics and children's literature in film and theatre. This is followed by various seminars and workshops on the respective topics, in which the children can deepen their knowledge.

More information about the event and registration: Children's university "All about books" (German only)