A new website for the University of Würzburg

The requirements for the design and functionality of websites are constantly changing. After the last refresh in 2017, the design, navigation concept and mobile view of the current university website no longer meet current standards. Take a look back at the history of our university website (German only).

Our aim is to create a modern, attractive and intuitive website that is of central strategic importance to the university. It should attract prospective students, put excellent research in the spotlight and bring university activities to life:

  1. For many, the website is the first point of contact with the university, be it for prospective students, researchers or potential employees. A high-quality digital business card is crucial in order to survive national and international competition.
  2. Many members of the University of Würzburg use the website on a daily basis. A functional website makes daily work noticeably easier and contributes to an efficient and excellent administration and university.

The relaunch of the website is also part of the brand strategy process (German only) currently being carried out at the University of Würzburg. The university's new corporate design should be available at the beginning of 2026. The web design is being developed in parallel.

Team

  • President Prof Paul Pauli
  • Dr Esther Knemeyer, Head of the Press and Public Relations Office

Press and Public Relations Office

  • Dr Esther Knemeyer
  • Konstanze Fürst
  • Alisa Hemmrich
  • Dr Jacob Schmidt

Information Technology Centre

  • Matthias Funken
  • Sabine Müller
  • Martin Schuhmann

The website is a daily companion for many university members and is aimed at different target groups. It is therefore particularly important to take into account the diverse requirements and wishes of the university community. Our project group is therefore deliberately broadly based with members from all status groups at the university.

The project group works with the core team and our external consultant in several workshops to develop key requirements for the website.

Faculties

  • Biocenter:
    Markus Kiunke
  • Faculties of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Physics and Astronomy:
    Dr Daniel Bellinger, Dr Ludwig Höllein
  • Faculty of Human Sciences, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Faculty of Arts:
    Michael Byrd
  • Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital:
    Dr Marc Appel
  • Faculty of Law and Faculty of Business Management and Economics:
    Christian Schlosser

Central Facilities

  • University Library:
    Dr Katharina Boll-Becht
  • Professional School of Education:
    Prof. Dr Thomas Trefzger

University Administration

  • Student Service Centre:
    Dr Daniel Hartmann
  • Service Centre InterNational Transfer:
    Katharina Göthner

Accessibility

  • KIS Student Disability Resource Centre:
    Sandra Mölter

Students

  • Speakers' Council:
    Yannik Bauer

  • Magnus Schubert, Consultant (hochschulberatung.org)
  • PHEENETZ (Agency for web design)

Milestones

19 May 2025: Workshop with pupils from St. Ursula School (press office)

13 May 2025: Intensive workshop II (project group and core team)

World Café on 7 May 2025

All members of the university had the opportunity to get involved in our university-wide participation event in the form of a so-called World Café. A World Café is a participatory event format in which participants exchange ideas in small groups on various topics, such as research, prospective students or the start page. After 15 minutes, the small groups moved to the next table and continued working on a different topic. The small groups changed a total of four times, so that we received a variety of perspectives on the different topics.

einBLICK: Web relaunch - ideas from the entire university are needed! (German only)

The World Café was moderated by our external consultant Magnus Schubert.
The participants had 15 minutes per table to share their ideas for the new website.
There were a total of ten moderated themed tables, with topics including prospective students, employees, the main menu or the start page.

10 April 2025: Intensive workshop I (project group and core team)

March 2025: Project group convened

Ongoing: Meetings and dialogue with various status groups at the university

What happens next?

The results of the World Café were evaluated in the second intensive workshop together with the project group, core team and Mr Schubert and translated into requirements and functions for the new website. These form the basis for the tender documents.

FAQ

No, the future website will also be operated with TYPO3.

We advise against completely reorganising pages now. However, you can already do some tidying up work in preparation for the upcoming revision of the pages:

  • Delete and/or revise outdated content (pages, texts, images, news, events, etc.)
  • Check translations
  • Clean up the file list

If you have any questions, please contact onlineredaktion@uni-wuerzburg.de.

We will inform you in good time about the revision process and how we can support you as an editor with training and consultation hours.

You are welcome to send ideas and suggestions for the new website to the online editorial team at any time.

No, we will probably go live with the pages in several stages.

The website is currently divided into a public and an internal area. In the course of the relaunch process, it will be evaluated whether the establishment of an intranet will be part of the result.