All upcoming university events cancelled / TMWWDG meeting planned for 30 March to decide how things will move forward The beginning of the semester at Thuringia’s universities has been postponed to 4 May 2020 as a preliminary measure. This decision was made at a meeting of the State President Conference at Thuringia’s Ministry of Science. This represents a university response to the continuing spread of the coronavirus. In addition, all university events such as concerts, lecture series and presentations will be cancelled. Each university will make its own decisions regarding whether to close its libraries. Furthermore, universities will consider how far they can make use of online and e-learning services in the interim.

Teaching at the Bauhaus University Weimar is officially prohibited by a general decree of the city of Weimar (currently until April 19). It is not possible to hold classroom events. Administrative and technical staff is not affected at this time. The presidium is making every effort to clarify all questions arising for students and staff and will inform you as soon as possible.

On Tuesday 3 March 2020, the city of Weimar published information about its preventative measures to combat the coronavirus, and we would like to pass this information on to you:

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow have received a total of 715,000 euros of funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Polish research organisation Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) for a joint research project to index and analyse manuscripts and publications by women authors from the period around 1800. The aim is to create a digital platform where scans of manuscripts, transcriptions and contextual materials can be accessed from anywhere in the world free of charge.

What identity-forming potential lies in Vogtland’s cultural heritage? What patterns of perception can be observed? Since February 2020, the »Vogtlandpioniere: Zukunftsindex Heimat und Baukultur 2025« project has seen researchers from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Institute for European Urban Studies examine what people living in the border regions of Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia and Bohemia consider valuable, what defines quality of life for them, and how they identify the region and understand its future development.

At a meeting on Wednesday 4 March 2020, the University Senate confirmed Dr. Jutta Emes and Dr.-Ing. Christian Koch as Vice Presidents. In doing so, the members of the Senate aligned with the Dr. Winfried Speitkamp’s recommendations.

The Presidium of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has decided to postpone the Open Campus Day that was scheduled to take place on Saturday 7 March 2020.

Am Dienstag, 3. März 2020, hat die Stadt Weimar eine Information zu ihren Präventionsmaßnahmen bezüglich des Coronavirus herausgegeben, die wir an dieser Stelle gern weitergeben möchten: