2024

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13FEB 2024
Research
Successful in the first round with human rights
FAU cluster passes first hurdle in the Excellence Strategy The Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments is one of the most important and attractive research funding initiatives in Germany, and the competition is fierce. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has submitted high-caliber research proposals in the current call to acquire prestigious excellence clusters. One application […]FAU cluster passes first hurdle in the Excellence Strategy The Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments is one of the most important and attractive research funding initiatives in Germany, and the competition is fierce. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has submitted high-caliber research proposals in the current call to acquire prestigious excellence clusters. One application […]
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13FEB 2024
Research
Digital twin accelerates solar research
Interdisciplinary team uses AI for the development of organic photovoltaics Artificial intelligence is expected to accelerate the search for the perfect material for solar panels by a factor of ten. An interdisciplinary team from FAU is working on this. Researchers from engineering including materials science, chemistry, and computer science aim to implement a digital twin […]
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13FEB 2024
Research
Geoscientist receives 1.7 million euros in funding
Deciphering the future of glaciers A flood wave advances on a mountain village. Water is becoming scarce in a nearby town. What sounds like a disaster movie is reality in the Tropical Andes. And all because the glaciers are shrinking. Dr. Thorsten Seehaus, lecturer at the Department of Geography, is investigating how glaciers have developed […]
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13FEB 2024
FAU news
Talentegrate project celebrates its first graduates
FAU, Siemens, adidas and SCHAEFFLER are bringing refugees and companies together Tackling two major challenges facing today’s society and economy at once. That is the idea behind the “Talentgrate” project. The joint project involving FAU and the companies Siemens, adidas and SCHAEFFLER aims both to integrate people with a refugee background and to take action […]
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13FEB 2024
FAU news
Student wins prize for audio feature on the NSU
During her Master’s degree in “Theater – Research–Transfer”, Bernadette Rauscher worked together with high school students from Weißenburg to produce the audio feature “Warum hört das nicht auf zu brennen? Oder: Vom Gestern im Heute. Auf den Spuren des NSU” (“Why does it not stop burning? Or: About the yesterday in today. On the trail […]
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12FEB 2024
FAU news
Good practice for good teaching
A new series of videos present the Guidelines for innovative teaching at FAU Teaching has an equal status to research at FAU. In order to ensure that our teaching remains of a consistently high standard, the University has worked together to draw up guidelines for innovative teaching. A new series of videos now demonstrates these […]
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12FEB 2024
Wissenschaft
Penguin research in Antarctica
Analyzing the behavior of emperor penguins Johannes Bartl is a doctoral candidate of physics at FAU. He is part of a team of researchers examining emperor penguins and their behavior with high-resolution cameras. Due to climate change their habitat is endangered: If the ice on the South Pole continues to melt the way it currently […]
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12FEB 2024
Alumni
Promote promising FAU talents
Every year, scholarship holders and sponsors gather at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg to celebrate, exchange ideas and get to know each other at the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship celebration. With the Deutschlandstipendium, companies as well as alumni of FAU support committed students on their way to successfully completing their studies and taking their first steps into the […]
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05FEB 2024
3 questions
Which future is feasible
Fatima El-Tayeb’s research focuses on ethnicity, race and migration. Due to her expertise in our key research priority of cultural values, the University awarded her the honor of FAU Ambassador in 2023. Ms. El-Tayeb, what does your research involve? My work revolves around European identity narratives, particularly those that construct the continent as “historically white” […]
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05FEB 2024
FAU news
FAU Magazin now available in English
These people make FAU special In our FAU Magazin, we present staff, researchers, students and alumni who make FAU special. The articles from the magazine are now available in English. What is the FAU Magazin? A university thrives because of the people who research, study, teach and work there. They all contribute their unique talents, […]
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02FEB 2024
FAU news
FAU is a “University Open to the World”
Concerned about the anti-democratic tendencies that have recently emerged in our society, FAU emphatically endorses the statement of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), which states that liberal democracy and the rule of law are not only the foundations of a humane society, but also of functioning academia. “Openness and curiosity are the fundamental values of […]
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01FEB 2024
Research
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago
New discoveries of bones and tools in a cave in Thuringia The arrival of Homo sapiens in cold northern latitudes took place several thousand years before Neanderthals disappeared in southwest Europe. This is the conclusion reached by a team of researchers including Dr. Marcel Weiß from Chair of Prehistory and Early History at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg […]
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