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ELECTION RESULTS
Dear doctoral candidates,
You have voted! Many thanks to everyone who took part in the Doctoral Council election. The voter turnout was 14,61 %.
Congratulations to
Pedro Romero - Fac. Architecture und Urbanism
Tilman Levine - Fac. Architecture und Urbanism
Gustavo Cosenza - Fac. Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lisa Rein - Fac. Media
Maxi-Josephine Rauch - Fac. Media
Elisa Rufenach-Ruthenberg - Fac. Art and Design
Vaclav-Karel Harsa - Fac. Art and Design
Mikhail Tolmachev - Fac. Art and Design
Eleftherios Krysalis - Fac. Art and Design (deputy)
→ The mandate is valid for the term of office from April 2025 to March 2027.
We wish them every success for the tasks ahead.
You can find all information about the election here.
If you have any questions, please use the Moodle forum or contact us at email: doctoral-council@uni-weimar.de

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The FAIRest dataset in Thuringia
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Until April 15th, 2025 all scientists at Thuringian universities have the opportunity to submit their published datasets, provided that they did not already receive the award in any previous FAIRest Dataset competitions. The submitted datasets are evaluated by the members of the Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management on the basis of the FAIR principles.
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