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The 2020 Shanghai Ranking has been published, and FAU is among the world’s top 100 universities in five subjects. Three subjects have been ranked among the top 50 in the world.

Can the rhythm and music therapy TaKeTiNa alleviate the symptoms of depressed patients and possibly even strengthen the immune system? A new study to investigate this will start in October 2020. The first information events for interested parties will take place in September 2020.

A large part of the winter semester 2020/21 will be taught online. Although some face-to-face teaching will still take place, the upcoming semester will be a hybrid semester. A hybrid semester means that face-to-face teaching is offered to supplement online teaching. We will ensure that all degree programmes can still be studied.

Seven years ago, the Green Factory Bavaria project was launched with the aim of minimising resource consumption in production. Project coordinator Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke of the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems explains the most important results of the Green Factory Bavaria.

20 August 2020 is the deadline for applications to degree programmes with admission restrictions such as Medicine, Psychology, International Business Studies, Food Chemistry or Industrial Engineering and Management at FAU in the winter semester 2020/21. 20 August is also the deadline for degree programmes at FAU that require advanced registration.

Is it possible to influence the progression of an aggressive form of leukaemia and improve chances of recovery by adopting a special diet? Research conducted by the team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Robert Slany at the Chair of Genetics at FAU and published in the journal ‘BloodAdvances’ suggest that this may be the case.

It is not too late to start studying any of the over 100 subjects at FAU without admission restrictions in winter semester 2020/21. The deadline for applications for enrolment in subjects without admission restrictions has been extended until 18 October 2020.

Human geneticists at FAU have identified an enzyme deficiency as the trigger for generalised pustular psoriasis, a particularly severe form of psoriasis. The results of the study, which have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, could lead to new possibilities for treatment.

Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have developed a new bouldering psychotherapy approach. Following on from the pilot study, the follow-up study has also shown that bouldering psychotherapy is considerably more effective than physical exercise alone and at least as effective as behavioural therapy.

International students face a number of challenges: a new country, a new culture, a new language and then lots of paperwork and different authorities to cope with. With our new welcome packages available at a fee, FAU would like to support international students when they first arrive, letting them concentrate fully on settling in at FAU.