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On Saturday, July 28, FAU will once again be hosting a very special summer evening in the heart of Erlangen: its Schlossgartenfest. Visitors can look forward to an extensive entertainment program, including live music, a knowledge trail and science cocktails.

Do you fancy gardening but don’t have a garden of your own? FAU has not one but two community gardens, and both would welcome new group members!

The university's headquarters have moved. However, the Student Advisory Service, Admissions Office, Student Administration and Examinations Office can still be found in Erlangen Halbmondstraße for personal meetings.

The Bavarian state government has awarded the Bavarian High-Tech Awards for the first time. Two of the awards were won by members of FAU. Dr. Johanna Geiß and Tamara Hein each received a graduate prize.

The glaciers are melting. This fact is well known. But how exactly do researchers determine this? Franziska Temme, a research assistant at the Institute of Geography at FAU, has studied the glaciers on the Cordillera Darwin ice field in South America on three excursions.

An interdisciplinary and international research team led by FAU is investigating the effects of nature conservation through privatization and luxury nature tourism on nature and people in the Global South. The project is being funded with 1.5 million euros by the Volkswagen Foundation.

A new procedure aims to help people with nerve damage or amputations to regain at least some of their motor skills. The method developed at FAU can be used and further developed by researchers free of charge.

FAU doctoral student Sally Arnhardt has an unusual hobby: boxing. Boxing is still tainted with a poor reputation. Unfairly so, as it offers a number of health benefits. The air is stuffy, it smells of sweat and damp leather gloves. Unusual sounds can be heard: shoes tapping and the rhythmic beating...

AI researchers from all Bavarian universities and colleges can now use FAU's new IT infrastructure for their projects. The NHR@FAU has installed several hundred AI accelerators for this purpose, which were financed by the Free State of Bavaria as part of the Bavarian High-Tech Agenda.