diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d8d7fbe..a4a88e1 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     - end_section install_fonts
 
     - start_section install_r_packages "Installing missing R packages"
-    - R -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'scales', 'sp', 'raster', 'kableExtra', 'DT', 'svglite'))"
+    - R -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'scales', 'sp', 'raster', 'kableExtra', 'DT', 'svglite', 'qrcode'))"
     - R -e 'devtools::install_git("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/IDS-Mannheim/idsThemeR")'
     - R -e 'devtools::install_git("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/IDS-Mannheim/posterdown")'
     - end_section install_r_packages
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0d62c13..c9741ec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
     department: Digital Linguistics
     email: kupietz@ids-mannheim.de
     website: "http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/instance/icc"
+    qrcode: "my_qrcode.svg"
 ```
 
 For a complete example, see [skeleton.Rmd](./inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd)
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html
index 95bef1e..d6aec3d 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html
@@ -295,6 +295,10 @@
   overflow: display;
 }
 
+#info-column .qrcode {
+  margin-bottom: 5em;
+}
+
 @media print {
 #info-column {
  bottom: 7vH;
@@ -667,6 +671,10 @@
 
 </div>
   <div id="info-column">
+    $if(contact.qrcode)$
+    <img class="qrcode" src="$contact.qrcode$"/>
+    <br/>
+    $endif$
     <b>Contact:</b><br/>
     $if(contact.name)$$contact.name$$else$Dr. Marc Kupietz$endif$<br/>
     $if(contact.department)$$contact.department$$else$Corpus Linguistics PA$endif$<br/>
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
index 228193e..6dfdbfd 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     department: Digital Linguistics
     email: kupietz@ids-mannheim.de
     website: "http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/instance/icc"
+    qrcode: "gerrit_qrcode.svg"
 column_numbers: 2
 # logoright_name: https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/brentthorne/posterdown/master/images/betterhexlogo.png
 logoleft_name: https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/brentthorne/posterdown/master/images/betterhexlogo.png
@@ -31,7 +32,9 @@
 ---
 
 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
+library(qrcode)
 knitr::opts_chunk$set(dev = 'svg', echo = FALSE)
+generate_svg(qr_code("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/plugins/gitiles/IDS-Mannheim/posterdown"), "gerrit_qrcode.svg")
 ```
 
 # Introduction