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Dr. Petra Schmidl from FAU has received one of the most prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC) together with researchers from Belgium, Italy and the USA: a Synergy Grant worth 10 million euros, with almost 2.3 million going to FAU in the next six years. The researchers are investigating historical sources on occult sciences in Islamicate cultures.

The Bavarian Research Foundation and a Bavarian consortium from industry will jointly invest almost four million euros in the research consortium FORSocialRobots that is aimed at significantly improving the social skills of automated systems and robots. FAU-Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke will assume the role of speaker.

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