International

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...

The European Master's in Lexicography (EMLex) at FAU has received funding from the European Union for the third time as part of the Erasmus Mundus programme. The aim of the programme is to promote mobility for learners and transnational cooperation. The EMLex has been offered at FAU since 2010. S...

Within the framework of the current target agreements 2023-2027, the Women's representative offer a coaching: Female scholars at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology are invited to apply for the individual career Coaching 2024. In addition, there is a funding for guest lectures b...

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...

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...

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 ...