The FAU Community App

Notifications directly to your smartphone, live chat, Alumni Card and much more: with the FAU Community App you can access content and interact with your contacts even faster.

About the FAU Community App (Beta)

The FAU Community App is a progressive web app (pwa) that works when you are connected to the Internet. The app reproduces the content of the FAU Community desktop version one-to-one – in smartphone friendly display and with additional interactive options. Of course, as usual, in German and in English.

Public Beta: better together

We are happy if you accompany us on the way to the best possible version of the web app. Currently, we are offering the Public Beta version of the FAU Community App. This means that it is continuously improved, and we are of course very happy to receive your suggestions and tips if you miss something or an error occurs.

This is how it works:

An Internet connection is required to use the FAU Community App. Please open your smartphone browser and enter the internet address www.community.fau.de/en. There you will find a note in the header to install the app.

If you are using one of the browsers listed below, the installation of the FAU Community Web App is done via the browser menu (add to home screen).

This works straightforwardly, just note the following points:

General requirement

→ Allow shortcuts to the Home screen of your smartphone in your browser.

If this is not already the case, you usually grant this permission via the “Settings” of your browser. There, select “Permissions”, if necessary also “Other permissions”, click on “Home screen shortcuts” and “Always allow”. Now open the address www.community.fau.de/en in the browser.

Select your browser

(Selection of the most common browsers)

→ Samsung browser

• At the bottom of the browser, click the three-dash menu, select +Add page to → Home screen.
• The “FAU Community” app icon is now visible on your Home screen.

→ Opera browser

• In the browser, click the three-dot menu at the top, select Add to → Home screen.
• A window will open: Add to Home screen “FAU Community”. Confirm with Add.
• The “FAU Community” app icon is now visible on your Home screen.

→ Ecosia browser

• Do not use the incognito mode.
• In the browser, click on the three-dot menu at the top, select Install app.
• A window will open: Install app. Confirm with Install.
• The “FAU Community” app icon is now visible on your Home screen.

→ Edge browser

• In the browser, click on the three-dash menu at the bottom and select Add to phone.
• A window will open: Install app. Confirm with Install.
• The “FAU Community” app icon is now visible on your Home screen.

→ Brave browser

• In the browser, click on the three-dot menu at the bottom, select Install App.
• A window will open: Install app. Confirm with Install.
• You will now see the “FAU Community” app icon on your Home screen.

Your app is now ready:

Open the app by clicking on the “FAU Community” icon and log in with your usual FAU Community data. You will need an internet connection.

No login data yet? Click here to register: www.community.fau.de/register

Data protection

The terms of use and data protection information at www.community.fau.de apply to the FAU Community App.

Contact

Have fun with your FAU Community App! If you have any questions, please contact alumni@fau.de