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Great joy at FAU: The "Transforming Human Rights" research project becomes a Cluster of Excellence. The FAU application convinced the Excellence Commission with its plan to shed light on human rights challenges against the backdrop of global megatrends and to investigate the transformation of human rights norms, institutions and practices.

Visiting Prof. Dr. Siow Woon Ng, Professorship for Physical Chemistry of Interfaces. Each semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors in their institutes. He visits them there to talk about their research, to discover what is close to their heart and to get to know them be...

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