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Priority Programmes

Priority Programmes at FAU

Priority Programmes (PP) bring transregional collaborations together and support research which promises to produce significant findings if funding is centrally coordinated.

Priority Programmes coordinated by FAU

  • PP 2267 – The Digitalisation of Working Worlds. Conceptualising and Capturing a Systemic Transformation

Priority Programmes involving FAU

  • PP 527 − International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)
  • PP 1006 − International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP)
  • PP 1158 − Antarctic research with comparable investigations in Arctic sea ice areas
  • PP 1796 − High frequency flexible bendable electronics for wireless communication systems
  • PP 1857 − Electromagnetic sensors for life sciences (ESSENCE)
  • PP 1886 – Polymorphic uncertainty modelling for the numerical design of structures
  • PP 1889 − Regional sea level change and society (SeaLevel)
  • PP 1897− Calm, smooth and smart – Novel approaches for influencing vibrations by means of deliberately introduced dissipation
  • PP 1921 – Intentional forgetting in organisations. Mechanisms of forgetting as ways of organisations adapting to an environment in which the amount of information is constantly increasing
  • SPP 1926 – Next Generation Optogenetics: Tool Development and Application
  • PP 1927 – Iron-Sulfur for Life
  • PP 1929 − Giant interactions in Rydberg systems (GiRyd)
  • PP 1934 – Dispersity, structure and phase changes of proteins and biological agglomerates in biotechnology processes
  • PP 1980 − Nanoparticle synthesis in spray flames – SpraySyn: measurement, simulation, processes
  • PP 1984 − Hybrid and multimodal energy systems: systems theory and methods for the transformation and cooperation of complex networks
  • PP 1999 − Robust argumentation machines (RATIO)
  • PP 2005 − Opus Fluidum Futurum – Rheology of reactive, multiscale, multiphase construction materials
  • PP2006 − Compositionally Complex Alloys – High Entropy Alloys (CCA – HEA)
  • PP 2013 − Targeted utilisation of internal stresses caused by forming in metallic components
  • SPP 2037 – Scalable data management for future hardware
  • PP 2045 − Highly-specific multi-dimensional fractionation of technical fine particulate matter systems
  • PP 2074 − Fluidless lubrication systems with high mechanical load
  • PP 2080 – Catalysts and reactors under dynamic conditions for energy storage and conversion
  • SPP 2084:  µBONE: Colonization and interaction of tumor cells within the bone microenvironment
  • PP 2089 – Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation
  • SPP 2100:  Soft Material Robotic Systems
  • PP 2102 − Light-controlled reactivity of metal complexes
  • PP 2111 − Electronic-photonic integrated systems for ultrafast signal processing
  • SPP 2122 – “Materials for Additive Manufacturing”
  • SPP 2127:  Gene and cell based therapies to counteract neuroretinal degeneration
  • PP 2130 − Cultures of translation in early modern times
  • SPP 2171 –  Dynamic wetting of flexible, adaptive and switchable surfaces
  • SPP 2172 – The Digital Image
  • PP 2191 –  Molecular mechanisms of functional phase separation
  • SPP 2196 –  Perovskite semiconductors: From fundamental properties to devices
  • PP 2206 – Cooperative Multistage Multistable Microactuator Systems
  • PP 2236 − Audictive – Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments
  • PP 2238 – Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment – DOME
  • PP 2262 − Memristive Bauelemente für intelligente technische Systeme
  • PP 2265 – Random Geometric System
  • SPP 2289 – Hetero-Aggregates: “Creation of Synergies in Tailor-made Mixtures of Heterogeneous Powders: Hetero Aggregations of Particulate Systems and Their Properties”
  • SPP 2298 – Theoretische Grundlagen von Deep Learning
  • SPP 2306 – Ferroptose: Von der Grundlagenforschung zur klinischen Anwendung
  • SPP 2312 – Energy Efficient Power Electronics “GaNius”
  • SPP 2314 – INTEREST: Integrated Terahertz systems enabling novel functionality
  • SPP 2364 – Autonomous processes in particle technology – Research and testing of concepts for model-based control of particle technology processes
  • SPP 2377 – Disruptive Memory Technologies
  • SPP 2378 – Resilience in networked worlds – Managing failures, overload, attacks and the unknown
  • SPP 2389 – Emergente Funktionen der bakteriellen Multizellularität



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