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FAU Strategy Talks – Join in the discussion!

The FAU Strategy Talks offer students and staff a joint platform to shape the future strategy of FAU. You have the possibility to discuss current developments, the University’s strategic approach and future goals with the Executive Board.

Further information is available on our intranet after logging in with your IdM account.

  • Alex Blania ist CEO of Tools for Humanity and founded the cryptocurrency World together with OpenAI founder Sam Altman. His ideas receive great attention worldwide. He studied physics and industrial engineering at our FAU. In the interview, Alex Blania gives personal insights into his time as a student, talks about his path to Silicon Valley and reveals what he would say to his childhood self today.

  • Funded by the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) with 180,000 euros, FAU researchers are hoping to develop a new method to examine the brains of newborns by combinging new high-speed ultrasound devices with AI Imaging. The high resolution images could help detect stroke and and aspyhxia in babies.

  • FAU has again shown that it is one of Germany’s top universities and above all how successful it is in attracting public research funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Between 2020 and 2022, FAU received a total of 289,4 million euros from DFG funding, a 20.3 percent gain on the previous three years.

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