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FAU launches an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented teaching format: the Human Rights Clinic. The first batch of students can now apply to start their clinical education in the winter term 2021/22. In addition to traditional lectures, students will participate in skills-oriented workshops, and c...

In broad cooperation with CHREN and FFVT, among others, the Institute of Political Science is co-hosting a series of online workshops on "Displacement, Immobility and Human Rights." The dates and further information can be found in the flyer "Displacement, Immobility and Human Rights" (PDF).

Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel is involved in an international doctorate programme of the universities of Bayreuth, Wuerzburg and Erlangen-Nuremberg on "Business and Human Rights", funded by the Elite Network Bavaria. Migration-related topics and applications are also welcome. Please send any inquiries to p...

"COVID-19 has affected almost all areas of integration policy. Achievements that we have made in the past six, seven years are in danger if we don’t take appropriate countermeasures,” a research project finds conducted by the research team on Migration, Displacement and Integration (MFI) at the Inst...

Dr. Johannes Jüde will participate in the annual conference of the International Studies Association (ISA) "ISA 2021 Annual Convention - Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics" from April 6 to 9. There, he will present his current research projects in two lec...

A 30-month postdoctoral position is available at the Institute of Political Science as part of the research project Academic Freedom, Globalised Scholarship and the Rise of Authoritarian China. More information at jobs.fau.de.

The team of Research on Migration, Displacement and Integration (MFI) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel is pleased to join the Institute of Political Science as of April 1, 2021. The area is dedicated to research and teaching on current migration, flight and integration processes at the ...

A new article by Prof. Balleis has appeared in the publication "One and one equals eleven" of FAU and San José State University (SJSU). The article about the Medical Valley Center Erlangen is available as PDF.

On 11 March 2021, the updated Academic Freedom Index was published. It covers five dimensions of academic freedom and is the result of international cooperation. Around 2000 researchers from all over the world contributed assessments. Times Higher Education reported. The German Academic Exchange Ser...

The Federal Academy for Security Policy is currently advertising two project positions for Master's students interested in security policy who would like to gain professional practice in an interdepartmental working environment within the framework of an optional practical year. The students will...