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For the fifth time in a row and for the eighth time altogether, a researcher nominated by FAU has been chosen for the most prestigious international research prize in Germany: Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller. He is to receive 3.5 million euros in funding.

Violence and discrimination against women and girls take many different forms. To raise awareness of the issue, FAU is taking part in the ‘Orange your city!’ campaign.

FAU President and computer science expert Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger and computer science expert Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier took to the stage for TEDxNuremberg. Their TED talks are now online.

A practical 5G application for cherry farming is being developed as part of the ‘For5G’ project. The heart of the project, located in the region known as Franconian Switzerland, is the creation and analysis of a ‘digital twin’ for fruit trees. The project has received 1.4 million euros of funding from the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

A European consortium including FAU aims to develop a pan-European pilot Master's degree programme for high performance computing.

Prof. Dr. Erasmus Mayr, Chair of Practical Philosophy at FAU, has been awarded the 2021 German Prize for Philosophy and Social Ethics for his outstanding contributions to practical philosophy.

In view of the worrying situation in the intensive care units, especially at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU has decided, in consultation with Deans, Deans of Studies and Students' Representatives, to introduce what is known as the 2G rule for face-to-face teaching. Accordingly, only those who are vaccinated or have recently recovered from Covid can attend classes on campus at FAU.

Whether it’s in youth or internet culture, in the media and entertainment landscape or the political arena: In which variety and with which functions the sentimental is used (both consciously and unconsciously) is the subject of the research of a new research training group called ‘The Sentimental in Literature, Culture and Politics’.

499 of the respondents of the 2020 FAU-St survey started their Master’s degree programme in winter semester 2019/20 or summer semester 2020. In this, the final article from our series about FAU-St in pictures, we take a closer look at their responses to find out if, when and why they decided to study for a Master's degree and if this meant a change of subject.

As part of our series about FAU-St, we are now looking at the experiences of current students at FAU. This covers students who have been studying at FAU since at least the summer semester of 2019 and who have not changed universities during the last year. Unless students changed from a Bachelor’s degree programme to a Master’s degree last year, the questions in the survey referred to their current degree programme.