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Extended application period The FAU Open Research Challenge challenges young academics: international talents, but also teams in which German researchers work together with international colleagues for the challenge, can still apply by March 31: The aim is to solve challenges in the fields of pale...

Department Data Science and Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies to start in the new year As part of the Hightech Agenda Bavaria, FAU is establishing two more new departments on January 1, 2021: The Department Data Science (DDS) expands the Faculty of Natural Sciences and focuses on str...

A visit to the Competence Center for Digital Education at FAU - the Institute for Learning Innovation As the saying goes, you never stop learning. This also applies to learning itself, because how learning and teaching is done changes greatly over time. Since 1976, the Institute for Learning Innova...

Prof. Dr. Martina Fromhold-Eisebith (Economic Geography, RWTH Aachen). When: Monday, 07.12.2020 at 18:30 clock. Where: Zoom (to registration)   How can a sustainable 'Digital Age' be designed and digitization be used for the transformation towards more sustainability on a global scale? Thes...

Promote digital teaching and learning Digital education is more important than ever. With the newly opened DigiLLab, FAU now has another important building block for the future-oriented training of future teachers. But not only that: Together with the content offerings of media education and comput...

International research project brings five European cities from the early modern period to the present day to life   How was the public space in European cities used in the years from 1450 to 1700? What happened in small streets and large squares, which buildings were important and why? How...

Funding by the federal and state governments for the next ten years The FAU will receive a center for national high performance computing (NHR) at universities - this was announced by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) at its meeting on November 13, 2020. On January 1, 2021, the "Zentrum für nation...

Legal Tech and AI in Law Dr. Axel Adrian is honorary professor at the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law and philosophy of law. One of his scientific focal points is Legal Tech and the use of AI in law. In an interview, he explains the significance of these developments for everyday leg...

AI in medicine and the interaction of work and technology - on November 4, at the Dies academicus of FAU Professor Sabine Pfeiffer, head of the Department of Sociology with a focus on Technology - Work - Society, is concerned with the transformation of work through digital transformation. She resea...

Digital technologies mean that more and more social and technical processes are being translated into data - i.e. "datafused". The analysis of this data enables new insights, new services and is the basis for new data economies. For some years now, however, the buzzword "digital sovereignty" has be...