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Before the Dies academicus, the University honors high achievers, academic achievements and services in teaching at FAU every year with the FAU Awards. Here are this year's awardees.

Developers of educational computer games, racing car designers and a collection manager who writes comics are at the forefront of this year’s celebrations for the 281st anniversary of FAU, the Dies academicus, on November 4.

The European Patent Office reviewed academic patent applications filed between 2000 and 2020, ranking FAU second place for universities in Germany for the number of patent applications, and 13th from a total of 1200 universities in Europe in the study.

FAU is starting the new lecture period with a slight increase in student numbers. A total of 39,697 students have registered for the winter semester with international students now accounting for approximately 23 percent of total student numbers at FAU.

How can FAU reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and set an example for climate action? How exactly can each individual member of FAU play their part? The answers are in the first Integrated climate action plan of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, which has just been published.

The Digital Tech Academy at FAU is offering a series of workshops to prepare students with a business idea for launching a start-up. The workshops are free of charge for all students at FAU, in EELISA and in the Existency network.

The seeds in the teaching collection at the Botanical Garden in Erlangen have a very special aesthetic. Photographer Danièle Dugré shows them in an unexpected light.

With the popular FAU bag, students not only carry their laptops and study materials, but they also proudly showcase the name of their Alma Mater. Now, members of the free FAU Community can also show that they belong to the FAU family: We are giving away 5 copies of the exclusive FAU bag!

Using a new measuring method, FAU researchers have been able to determine that immune cells also exert traction on surrounding tissue in order to pull themselves through particularly tight pores.