Research

Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity” (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (Chair of Human Rights Politics) and Dominik Müller (Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How?

With the funding measure ‘Regional Expansion of China Expertise in Science (Regio-China)’, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to disseminate and deepen China expertise in the German scientific landscape. One of the projects is ‘KoWinChi - Competent scientific interaction with China’, which the Chair of Sinology with a focus on the intellectual and cultural history of China at FAU has successfully acquired as a joint project with the University of Würzburg.

Academic freedom today is not available for 3.6 billion people, or 45.5 percent of the world’s population. After a global peak in academic freedom in 2006, the situation today is comparable to circumstances fifty years ago in 1973. This is one of the results of the 2024 Update of the Academic Freedo...

The popular program FAUmentoring ARIADNEphil is starting its next round in October 2024! Until 31st March 2024, female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and habilitation candidates from the Faculty of Humanities and Theology can apply for admission to the 18-month mentoring program. The free offer is aimed at promising female early-career researchers who aspire to an academic career.

Within the framework of the current target agreements 2023-2027, the Women's representative offer a coaching: Female scholars at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology are invited to apply for the individual career Coaching 2024. In addition, there is a funding for guest lectures b...

Once again, FAU has successfully demonstrated its strength in innovation and research. In the current funding round, the University has succeeded in winning not one, but two more Humboldt professorships. One of them goes to Linguist and mathematician Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, who analyzes linguis...

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures.” of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg now keeps you updated with its own newsletter! On a quarterly basis, the RTG will inform interested parties (both in German and English) ab...

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most valuable German research award and is granted exclusively to top researchers who are world leaders in their field. The Alexander von Humboldt Professorships for Artificial Intelligence form an essential part of the German government's AI strategy....

Professor Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard University) received an honorary doctorate from FAU on June 6th for her outstanding research on human rights. To mark this occasion, a festive award ceremony took place with guests from the university and beyond. The Institute of Political Science, in association w...

Whether its smartphones, tablets or apps, it would be difficult to imagine our daily or working lives these days without digital devices and tools. To be successful in this digital world, we need digital skills. Teaching these skills is also a task for schools. This requires well-trained teachers wh...