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Forest fires are no longer only restricted to southern European regions, they are now increasingly also a problem in Germany. The interdisciplinary project Evolonic from FAU and the Fraunhofer IISB is focusing on developing effective solutions for the early detection of forest fires. Together with the fire services in Erlangen and Nuremberg, they are conducting trials on using long-distance drones for the autonomous surveillance of wooded areas.

The donors Jutta Blumenau-Niesel and Dr. Hans-Joachim Niesel decided in 2022 to establish a trust foundation in honor of the life and work of Dr. Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau at FAU in Erlangen. On behalf of the university, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger expressed his pleasure about the new foundation, the ‘Blumenau-Niesel-Stifting’.

FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding.

Since June 2023, Prof. Dr. Roland Nagy has been head of the flagship Institute of Applied Quantum Technologies at the Faculty of Engineering at FAU. In our interview, he gives a brief insight into his research.

The communication of the future is to become more secure with the help of light particles. This is the goal of the QuNET initiative by the BMBF. The initiative's partners have now taken an important step toward quantum-safe networks: With a key experiment.

On Thursday September 14, 2023 decision-makers from business, industry and research are set to meet once again in Erlangen for the “Global Market Leaders Innovation Day” run by the business journal WirtschaftsWoche. This year the focus is on energy and sustainability.

A large turnout to congratulate FAU immunologist Georg Schett on winning the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. FAU Vice President Prof. Dr. Georg Schett was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements.

FAU’s Hightech Campus continues to grow and will now include an additional 105,000 square meters of floor space from the Siemens campus in south Erlangen. The key for the building has now been symbolically handed over to FAU in the presence of Bavarian Minister President Dr. Markus Söder, Siemens CEO Dr. Roland Busch, and State Ministers Markus Blume and Joachim Herrmann.

A robot performing surgery on humans. What sounds like science fiction could provide support to physicians in the operating room in future. The project is set to receive around 2 million euros of funding from the Bavarian Research Foundation because of its innovative approach. 

Volunteering in your free time is a good thing: It can strengthen the team spirit in a club, is beneficial to the environment and provides support to older people. A team of researchers at FAU and the digiDEM Bayern Digital Dementia Register has now discovered that voluntary work can have a positive effect on the cognitive abilities of the volunteers themselves.