has no tuition fees and represents the first institution of higher education to receive the family-friendly certificate for employers. Faculties and institutions The University of Erfurt has five faculties and three academic institutes: Faculty of Education Faculty of Catholic Theology Faculty of Philosophy Faculty of Governance (Law, Economics and Social Science), the only one in Germany Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies The academic institutes are: Erfurt School of Education Research Centre for Social and Cultural Studies in Gotha The Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, the former Erfurt School of Public Policy (ESPP), which is partly financed by tuition fees. Academic programs and priorities Academic priorities Religious studies Sociology Governance (Law and economics) Education Regular summer schools International Summer Course for German Language, Literature and Culture Summer School "Muslims in the West" Summer Program in Communications Erfurt (SPICE) International Spring School University research groups and projects Current research groups Currently following colleges and research teams are part of the Erfurt doctoral and postdoctoral program (EPPP): The research group Communication and Digital Media (COMDIGMED) is an interdisciplinary and international scale embedded and association of researchers. This project will combine to support the research activities of its members on the field of communication science, educational science, psychology and social science and networking of research and teaching help. COMDIGMED is co-creator of university education focus. In the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavior (Cereb) scientists work together on economic and behavioral sciences, focusing on the theoretical modeling of human decision behavior, the design of social institutions and educational and career choices as long-term Selbststeuerungsprozesse. The university is involved in this specialization. The Graduate School "Religion in modernization processes" engages religion-related research projects from the religious, social, literary, media, and history of science, theology and philosophy. It engages young scientists with the problems in this area, and offers attractive conditions for their work to develop new understandings of religion in modernization processes. The research program of Max Weber Center is directed to the problems of religion, science and law as interpretation and control powers, interactions between cultures, social systems and mentalities in radical change, and action-bases of cultural and social sciences and their relation to normative, especially ethical issues. The DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Human Dignity and Human Rights" employs young researchers at the Max Weber Center and the University of Jena with creation, development and application of a central value