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Our security colleagues are supporting the Open Source Firmware Conference in Erlangen this week.

FAU students are a happy bunch, always social and eager to learn. As a passerby on the stairs remarked: These students must by lining up to register for our classes.

In the rankings game, FAU scored big again, and was named 6th most innovative university in Europe in 2017, according to this Reuters report.

A while back, FAU started taking university rankings seriously. Good news keep coming: FAU is now #3 in Germany in engineering, and #108 world-wide, according to the Shanghai Ranking. More information (in German) in the FAU newsletter.

Reuters ranked European universities again as to their innovativeness, i.e. how they turn research into innovation and ultimately practical applications. FAU comes in sixth, one seat behind TUM, annoyingly enough, but also not too shabby either. The third German university in the top 10 is "Unive...

The FAU public relations office points to another ranking (in German), this time the Times Higher Education ranking of 2015, which lists FAU as the 123rd best research university in the world. Weirdly, it is only the 12th best university in Germany. This speaks to the overall research strength of Ge...