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09APR 2025
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“Match’In” Pilot Project: Policy Paper on the Results Published
How can the allocation process be made more suitable for people seeking protection and local authorities? With the “Match’In” pilot project, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Hildesheim have been pursuing the goal over the last four years of making the official allocation process more suitable with the help of algorithm-supported matching together with partners […]
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13MAR 2025
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AFI Update 2025: Anti-pluralist Parties Threaten Academic Freedom
On 13 March 2025, the team behind the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) project released the 2025 AFI Update. The annual report, a collaborative effort by political scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, provides an overview of the state of academic freedom in 179 countries. Eight countries […]
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21FEB 2025
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Geodata for Human Rights Winter School
An international group of early career researchers came together at FAU from 10-14 February for the Geodata for Human Rights Winter School 2025. Jointly with FAU’s Institute of Geography, the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, we organized an interdisciplinary program on the innovative use of geospatial technologies for human […]
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20FEB 2025
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Launch of the Bavarian Scientific Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research
Four members of the Institute, Professor Dr Dr h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt, Prof Dr Marco Bünte, Prof Dr Thomas Demmelhuber and Prof Dr Katrin Kinzelbach are Fellows of the newly founded Bavarian Scientific Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. This alliance combines approaches from the social sciences, technology, natural sciences and humanities in order to […]
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30OCT 2024
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Human Rights Now – How?
Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity” (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (political science) and Dominik Müller (anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How? The collaboration was endorsed by FAU president Joachim Hornegger and two directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in […]Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity” (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (political science) and Dominik Müller (anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How? The collaboration was endorsed by FAU president Joachim Hornegger and two directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in […]
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09APR 2024
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International Exchange at ISA Congress in San Francisco
From April 2nd to 6th, Dr. Johannes Jüde, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach and Dr. Lars Lott took part in the 2024 Congress of the International Studies Association (ISA). This year’s theme was “Putting Relationality at the Center of International Studies”. The congress served international academic exchange – more than 2,300 scholars came to San Francisco. […]
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