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The focus is on sustainability in this year’s Dies academicus at FAU: On Friday November 4, the University will open the doors of Heinrich Lades Halle in Erlangen to welcome its guests from 4 pm, not only to officially celebrate its founding day but also to provide valuable insights into various aspects of this extremely important topic. You can register any time now.

Virtual exhibition spaces, a personalized bra for treating breast cancer or an app that improves physiotherapy treatments were just some of the ideas from the eight teams who recently presented their start-ups at the Zollhof Tech Incubator in Nuremberg. The winning start-up, Evolonic, will travel to Pisa in December to represent FAU at the European EELISA Start-up Demo Day.

The semester has got off to a flying start with the large new students’ welcome event in Heinrich Lades Halle in Erlangen and at the School of Business, Economics and Society in Nuremberg. A very warm welcome to all our new students!

The Jakob Herz Prize was awarded for the seventh time on Friday October 7, 2022. The prize is awarded together with the Research Foundation at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen every two years for outstanding scientific achievements from theoretical and clinical medicine. This year’s award winner Prof. Dr. Douglas F. Easton from Cambridge received the prize in recognition of his breakthroughs in breast cancer research.

Listen to this! The first ever Erlangen PODCASTIVAL starts in October, bringing the ever popular format of podcasts to the stage providing the audience a visual as well as audible experience. “The idea behind podcasts captures the spirit of our times and there has been a huge increase in audience...

Germany has a new human rights award, presented by FAU. The FAU Human Rights Award honours internationally distinguished individuals who are committed to human rights research, teaching and practice. The inaugural recipient is the Indian human rights scholar and practitioner Dr. Harsh Mander. In this interview, Dr. Mander talks about his work.

Germany has a new human rights award, presented by FAU. The FAU Human Rights Award honours internationally distinguished individuals who are committed to human rights research, teaching and practice. The inaugural recipient is the Indian human rights scholar and practitioner Dr. Harsh Mander.

FAU retains its place among the best 200 universities in the world in the annual THE World University Rankings for 2023. Over 1,200 universities across the globe were assessed, with FAU finishing 196th, moving up one place from the year before.

FAU researcher Joachim von Zanthier received his doctoral degree from the current Nobel Laureate in Physics Alain Aspect and was always impressed by Aspect's analysis and precision.

FAU, its institutions, faculties and partners offer a number of services and events to support all FAU students, wherever you are returning after the semester break or whether you are just starting out at university: www.fau.de/semesterstart. All the best for the new semester!