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Take part in the survey now for five minutes and win one of 20 FAU hoodies from the FAU store or two places on the guest list for the FAU Music Festival! It only takes a few minutes. In the survey, students can tell the FAU how satisfied they are with their studies and in which aspects the FAU can still improve.

Hate, agitation and fake news - disinformation campaigns are on the rise on the internet and print media are in a structural crisis. The lecture series "Freedom of expression. Cultural struggles for a human right".

UNESCO has included 17 collections of drawings, paintings and writings by children and young people in the World Documentary Heritage, including the school history collection of the School Museum, a joint institution of FAU and the City of Nuremberg.

In the new ranking by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) - the most comprehensive comparison of universities in the German-speaking world - FAU was awarded top marks. All 11 subjects ranked scored top marks, with the subjects of Electrical Engineering/Information Technology and Psychology leading the way.

In the #FAUinsights series of events starting on Wednesday, May 21, experts from science and business will shed light on a wide variety of aspects of mobility on a total of seven evenings: Where is mobility heading?

An international team of researchers has succeeded in controlling the energy flow in a molecule with the help of the pH value. The study, led by FAU, could contribute to the development of new types of sensors for medical diagnostics or more efficient solar cells.

Xu Zhangrun is this year's winner of the FAU Human Rights Award. have rendered outstanding services to human rights. FAU Vice President Andreas Hirsch symbolically laid the award on the empty chair of the prizewinner, who is not allowed to leave China.

This year's Ars legendi Faculty Award for excellent university teaching in the Chemistry category goes to Dr. Sabrina Gensberger-Reigl from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The award ceremony has now taken place in Berlin.

The time has finally come: on the evening of May 5, Prof. Dr. Eva Pils received the most highly endowed German research prize in Berlin. The lawyer and human rights activist is the eleventh scientist to accept this special call to FAU.

Eight new priority programs (SPP) from the German Research Foundation (DFG) are due to commence in 2026. One of these programs will be based at FAU: “Holistic Design of Molecular Communication Systems, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, Chair of Digital Communications.