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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!

Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt, Chair of Human Rights and Human Rights Policy discusses what makes the current situation in Iran so volatile and how the West should react.

New substances that activate adrenalin receptors instead of opioid receptors have a similar pain relieving effect to opiates, but without the negative aspects such as respiratory depression and addiction. The results are a milestone in the development of non-opioid pain relief.

Researchers at FAU have conducted a case study proving the negative impact political conflicts have on research. They examined scientific publications from the last three decades describing fossils in amber from Myanmar. Their results indicate that the increased research interest in Myanmar amber is explicitly linked to major political, legal and economic changes.

The patterning of semi-conductors has entered a new age, becoming quicker and more energy and resource efficient thanks to precise atomic 3D printing. This is the technology focused on by the start-up ATLANT 3D Nanosystems (ATLANT 3D) – a spin-off from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Technical University of Denmark and the Institute of Electrical Engineering Slovak Academy of Sciences. The company has just succeeded in increasing its capital by 15 million US dollars.