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Tackling two major challenges facing today’s society and economy at once. That is the idea behind the “Talentgrate” project. The joint project involving FAU and the companies Siemens, adidas and SCHAEFFLER aims both to integrate people with a refugee background and to take action against the shortage of skilled workers.

During her Master’s degree in “Theater – Research–Transfer”, Bernadette Rauscher worked together with high school students from Weißenburg to produce the audio feature “Warum hört das nicht auf zu brennen? Oder: Vom Gestern im Heute. Auf den Spuren des NSU” (“Why does it not stop burning? Or: About ...

Teaching has an equal status to research at FAU. In order to ensure that our teaching remains of a consistently high standard, the University has worked together with the Innovation in Learning Institute (ILI) to draw up guidelines for innovative teaching. A new series of videos now demonstrates these guidelines in practice and illustrates how important they are for FAU. Bärbel Kopp, Vice President Education at FAU, has accompanied the process from the outset.

With the Deutschlandstipendium, alumni of FAU support committed students on their way to successfully completing their studies and taking their first steps into the professional world, for example with internships.

In our FAU Magazin, we present staff, researchers, students and alumni who make FAU special. The articles from the magazine are now available in English.

Liberal democracy and the rule of law are the foundations of a humane society – FAU emphatically endorses the statement of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). On February 3, a demonstration for democracy will be held at 4 pm at the Kornmarkt in Nuremberg.

The arrival of Homo sapiens in cold northern latitudes took place several thousand years before Neanderthals disappeared in southwest Europe. This is the conclusion reached by a team including Dr. Marcel Weiß.

A team led by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer has identified a key inflammation program that is of significance in a wide range of inflammatory processes and autoimmune diseases. This opens the door to a new approach for diagnosing and treating inflammation.

In episode 7, the president meets up with Prof. Dr. Ursula Roth. She holds the chair of Practical Theology (homiletics, iturgics and poimenics) at FAU.

In contrast to conventional mirrors, light can be reflected on surfaces known as meta surfaces without changing its polarization. This has now been proven by physicists at FAU and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).