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Win a pair of tickets to FAU's "Wunschkonzert" music festival

Companies need innovative minds to move forward and stay ahead of their competition and students need the chance to test themselves in real life topics and learn from them. At the “Innovation Research Lab” (IRL) at the Central Institute for Healthcare Engineering (ZIMT), both have the chance to meet.

Ten years ago, a team of astrophysicists led by researchers at FAU discovered an inconspicuous star in our galaxy, US 708, that turned out to be moving incredibly fast. Based on new observations that the FAU team were involved in, the cause of its extreme speed has now been identified.

Prof. Dr. Nadine Gatzert, Prof. Dr. Antje Kley and Prof. Dr. Günter Leugering are FAU's three new vice presidents, elected by the University Council in the vote on 27 February following the recommendations of FAU's president-elect, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger.

Mistakes don't hurt

200 years ago FAU still had its own jurisdiction which applied to all members of the University

Germany's energy consumers saved a total of 11.2 billion euros in 2013 because large amounts of renewable energy was fed into the electricity grid. This was recently discovered by researchers at FAU.

FAU researchers investigate the key to an active lifestyle

The German Olympic Sports Confederation has high expectations of the future coaches in its training programme. But are the requirements from the training programme actually put into practice? FAU's Chair of Education in Sport aims to find out.

After an evaluation by an international committee of experts, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved further funding for the CEDER research centre for inflammatory bowel disease at FAU.