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FAU supports its top students as part of the Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) programme. Each semester, scholarships of 3,600 euros for one year are awarded to the most gifted students. The unique feature of this scholarship is that half of the money comes from companies, donors, friends ... Continue

Prof. Dr. Carolin Körner, Chair of Materials Science and Engineering for Metals at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, which is not only extraordinary funding, but also recognition of Erlangen and Nuremberg as an exceptional location for sc... Continue

In order to be able to specifically support very good female students, two Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs), in which the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBI) is involved, are each offering an equal opportunity scholarship. This scholarship is aimed at very good international... Continue

Up to 100 Students, lecturers, researchers, MAP staff and guests gathered to explore and discuss 29 high quality posters from the 2019 batch of students. Continue

Excursions, as a corner stone of the MAP curriculum, allow students to get insights into possible future work life.  Unfortunately, the corona pandemic makes field trips to companies and research centers almost impossible. However, the MAP team is pleased to offer digital excursions to well-known in... Continue

To give insight to real life industries, MAP organizes various excursion for its students. The first excursion for the batch 2020 took place on 18th December 2020. We were given an amazing opportunity to take part in a virtual excursion to Zollhof Tech Incubator (Zollhof). Although virtual, the even... Continue

How can hydrogen make a crucial contribution to environmentally friendly mobility? How can a deeper understanding of our immune system lead to new treatments for infections, tumours and autoimmune diseases? And how can new polymer materials be developed which are suitable for use on and in the human... Continue

A team of researchers at FAU led by Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials) is producing bioactive glass that is being tested for suitability in the treatment of giant-cell tumours of the bone at Heidelberg University Hospital as part of a cooperation project. The can... Continue

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the German federal states has just announced that FAU will receive funds to establish a National Center for High Performance Computing (NHR@FAU) with focus on atomistic simulations. Already next year almost 9 million € will be invested in a new parallel computer... Continue

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved three new Collaborative Research Centres/Transregios (CRC/TRR) at FAU. The aim of CRC/TRR 305 is to understand the molecular mechanisms behind how metastases form and to develop new treatments for cancer metastases on this basis. In CRC/TRR 306, rese... Continue