FAU brings together numerous activities in research and teaching, which can be summarized under the collective terms digitization and digital transformation. The latter has therefore been chosen as one of the university’s main areas of research.
Here you will find the quite heterogeneous projects, activities, events and research of FAU, which are connected to these topics in the broadest sense.
From July 29 to 30, the international conference Agency in a datafied society: Communication between and across humans, platforms and machines (in cooperation with the Sociology of Media Communication section of the DGPuK, among others) will take place as an online conference. Keynote speakers are A...
Date: July 5, 2021.
Time: 16:15 - 17:45 (90 min).
Venue: online
Wikipedia is not only one of the most used sites on the Internet - it is also the largest online encyclopedia where everyone can participate. However, various groups and topics are underrepresented in Wik...
Humangeography Summer School 2021
Humangeography Summer School 2021
Digital Geographies
Digital space productions and space productions of the digital
September 26 - October 1, 2021 (online from Erlangen)
Recent social and cultural geography asks how social space...
The winning entry in the 2020 Open Research Challenge provides a method to clean up paleontological datasets
How did organisms respond to climatic changes in the past? Why did some species survive mass extinctions? There are many unanswered questions in paleontology that can only be answered throug...
The musty smell of a school satchel or the salty air of our first North Sea vacation - smells awaken memories and feelings in us like no other sensory impression. They are the direct gateway to our past. But can they also immerse us in past centuries?
Prof. Dr. Peter Bell from the Department of D...
Online lecture of the Botanical Garden
Spring is coming and with it many plants and flowers. But what are they called again? Smartphone apps can help identify flora and fauna. One way to share your finds is with the iNaturalist platform. FAU's Erlangen Botanical Garden will present the citizen scie...
What do I reveal about myself during a visit to the museum? Visitors to the Deutsches Museum in Nuremberg will soon be able to find out for themselves. In a joint project, the museum, DATEV and FAU are working on an algorithm that shows visitors what kind of data trail they leave behind - on a volun...
Media-Neutral Publishing Made Easy
Enabling an easy and cost-effective path to media-neutral publishing: That is the goal of the FAU University Library, with its university publisher FAU University Press, the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) and SciFlow GmbH. As part of the Open ...
The statue of Aphrodite of Knidos is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity. Now, thanks to Prof. Corinna Reinhardt, Chair of Classical Archaeology at FAU, there is an opportunity to experience historical works like this in three dimensions, despite the Corona pandemic. As reported by Bayeri...
FAU student develops a new method to reconstruct ecosystems millions of years old
Niklas Hohmann, a master's student in geosciences at FAU, has developed a new algorithm to better reconstruct the succession of ecosystems through Earth's history. He presents the results in the journal Palaios.
Ge...
