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Congratulations to Katharina Oft! The research assistant at the Chair of Classical Philology was awarded the prize for good teaching by the State Ministry of Science and the Arts. In her teaching, it is particularly important to her to maintain a close supervisory relationship and to actively involve students in the organization of seminars. The award recognizes her outstanding commitment to teaching and is endowed with 5,000 euros.

Greater opportunities in education for people with a migrant background, in particular women and girls, and breaking down barriers to accessing education: these are the focal topics in the program “Integration through education” from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Included in...

Welcome to Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)! Starting a degree is an exciting experience in a new environment with new people, lots of exciting input and many opportunities to try something new. So that you are well prepared to start your degree, make sure you create your s...

Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025. Scholars of the Institute of Political Science publish the index every year in collaboration with colleagues at the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. I

What is the best form of exercise and how often should we exercise to stay healthy? How can institutions encourage exercise? These are the key questions behind the national recommendations for exercise which are being revised by experts from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) on...

The Dean's Office wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and a relaxing time at the turn of the year and the upcoming holidays. Thank you for your cooperation. The Dean's Office will be taking a Christmas break from December 23, 2024 up to and including January 6, 2025 and will be available again from January 7, 2025.

Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity” (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (Chair of Human Rights Politics) and Dominik Müller (Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How?

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...

With the funding measure ‘Regional Expansion of China Expertise in Science (Regio-China)’, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to disseminate and deepen China expertise in the German scientific landscape. One of the projects is ‘KoWinChi - Competent scientific interaction with China’, which the Chair of Sinology with a focus on the intellectual and cultural history of China at FAU has successfully acquired as a joint project with the University of Würzburg.

Academic freedom today is not available for 3.6 billion people, or 45.5 percent of the world’s population. After a global peak in academic freedom in 2006, the situation today is comparable to circumstances fifty years ago in 1973. This is one of the results of the 2024 Update of the Academic Freedo...