Research Profile of the Faculty
The research profile of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology (PhilFak) is a product of the collaboration of nearly the entire humanities, social sciences, and disciplines focusing on religion. Our concpet of Agile Research Structures Agile Research Structures reflect the Faculty’s interdisciplinary configuration.
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.
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...
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...
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?
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.
