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Prof. Sandra Eckert (Chair in Comparative Politics) and Prof. Maria Rentetzi (Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies) will hold their inaugural lectures at the Orangerie in Erlangen on May 25th. Sandra Eckert will give a talk on the new challenges that the EU regulatory state is facing, and...

FAU students (geography, human rights, political science and all interested…) are invited to join students in California (USA) and Japan in support of humanitarian mapping projects worldwide. The kick-off in Erlangen will take place on Wednesday, April 19, starting at 12:30 p.m at Wetterkreuz 15, 91...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach and Dr. Lars Pelke presented the Academic Freedom Index to parliamentarians in the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment on Tuesday (March 28, 2023) and discussed the findings of the Update 2023 . The speakers focused their presentation on global deve...

In summer 2022, the Human Rights Subcommittee decided to prepare a Recommendation to the EU Council, the Commission and the HRVP (Josep Borrell) on how to respond more effectively to undemocratic elections in autocracies. To support the rapporteur (MEP Nacho Sánchez Amor), the Human Rights Subcommit...