Year: 2023

The Dean’s Office wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and restful holidays. We would like to thank you for the good and trusting cooperation. We wish you health and success in 2024. The dean’s office of the faculty is closed from December 27th, 2023 to January 5th, 2024 and can be reac...

Once again, FAU has successfully demonstrated its strength in innovation and research. In the current funding round, the University has succeeded in winning not one, but two more Humboldt professorships. One of them goes to Linguist and mathematician Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, who analyzes linguis...

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures.” of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg now keeps you updated with its own newsletter! On a quarterly basis, the RTG will inform interested parties (both in German and English) ab...

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most valuable German research award and is granted exclusively to top researchers who are world leaders in their field. The Alexander von Humboldt Professorships for Artificial Intelligence form an essential part of the German government's AI strategy....

On 16 October, the lecture period of the winter semester 2023/24 starts and we welcome all students (back) to the university! Whether 'freshman' or higher semester: The subjects, institutes and service facilities of the faculty support you at the start of the semester. An overview of the intro...

Professor Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard University) received an honorary doctorate from FAU on June 6th for her outstanding research on human rights. To mark this occasion, a festive award ceremony took place with guests from the university and beyond. The Institute of Political Science, in association w...

How does the UN work? What does the work of a diplomat look like? How do States resolve current conflicts of the world? If you are a student and find these questions interesting, FAUMUN is the perfect project for you. FAUMUN is the Model United Nations (MUN) project of the FAU. Students take on t...

Whether its smartphones, tablets or apps, it would be difficult to imagine our daily or working lives these days without digital devices and tools. To be successful in this digital world, we need digital skills. Teaching these skills is also a task for schools. This requires well-trained teachers wh...

This article by the American online magazine deals with why pessimism is not so bad. It quotes research results from Prof. Dr. Frieder Lang, head of the Institute for Psychogerontology, like the so-called "defensive pessimism" and the extent to which this can even be beneficial. Read the article on...

Health insurance is something we take for granted in Europe, but for many people all over the world, it is simply unaffordable. Pakistan is one of the countries that does not have a social health protection scheme. To change this, Prof. Dr. Andreas Landmann from the Institute of Economics at FAU is ...