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Great joy at FAU: The "Transforming Human Rights" research project becomes a Cluster of Excellence. The FAU application convinced the Excellence Commission with its plan to shed light on human rights challenges against the backdrop of global megatrends and to investigate the transformation of human rights norms, institutions and practices.

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

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...

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The app which was developed in the Erasmus+ project ‘CIELL’ has reached the finale of the ELTons Innovation Awards in the category Digital Innovation. Out of 150 submissions from 50 countries, the app with FAU participation is in the finale with six other contestants. Winners will be announced in No...

Six new professorships as part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria

A new project collects ideas of a utopian world and you can participate

50 essays on fundamental concepts of "futurology”

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