Interdisciplinary Centres
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The IZPH aims to develop and intensify health services research in light of demographic change with a focus on the following: benefit analysis and cost-benefit analysis of health technology innovations, fostering the transfer of knowledge between industry and science through the implementation of scientific study results in current healthcare realities, and evidence-based consultation with policy making networks.
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The IMZ embraces the role of interfaculty hub for all established media-related disciplines and courses of study at FAU. The collaborative work undertaken in the IMZ enables the exchange of comparative media perspectives, and the planning and implementation of joint research projects and events. It also promotes cooperation in study programmes and provides support for young scientists – which is why the IMZ established its very own Graduate School in 2007.
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The IZIR was established in 2002 as a platform for Islamic Religious Education teacher training. Its responsibilities include formulating legislative frameworks and professional standards for the teaching of Islamic Religious Education and the implementation of such in school pilot projects.
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The IZG was established to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of gerontology research and in turn to improve policy advice and the targeted representation of older people’s needs in the community. The IZG aims, inter alia, to initiate new research projects of gerontological relevance and put relevant research results into practice.
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The IZD promotes cooperation between linguistic subjects at FAU and regular contact with subjects of other disciplines. Some of the central questions addressed include: What are dialects? What is the core remit of dialect research? Which disciplines are concerned with dialect research and which require research results?
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Under the umbrella of the “Alte Welt” [Old World] Interdisciplinary Centre Classical and Ancient Studies, and their closely associated disciplines, aim to coordinate, combine and further develop their expertise. It is hoped that interdisciplinary cooperation, which in part emphasises textual sources, and in part material legacy, will afford research and teaching the opportunity to gain in momentum, both in terms of content and methodology.
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The objective of IZEMIR is to coordinate and promote Erlangen University’s traditional core areas of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. European medieval culture as a process and identity-forming synergy remains at the core of IZEMIR’s work.
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150 scientists from 31 clinics, institutes and departments are currently taking part in a total of 42 sub-projects in four core scientific areas at IZKF. It is hoped that both networking between research groups and the quality of clinical research at the faculty will improve via the establishment of high-quality scientific sub-projects – predominantly in the field of clinical science. Improvements are also hoped for thanks to greater interaction between various clinical, as well as clinical and theoretical, establishments.
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The IZÄB’s objective is to bring the aesthetic dimension of education to the attention of research and teaching. The possibilities aesthetic education affords as specific modi of perceiving the world, of interaction with others and personality development are explored by means of joint research projects. In addition, aesthetic perception processes, and design and aesthetic judgements are researched in cooperation with various departments from different faculties. The promotion of aesthetic education in practice is an area receiving particular attention.
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Representation theory deals with the analysis of symmetries in mathematics and is one of the main fields of research at the FAU’s Emmy Noether Zentrum. Representation theory is also applied in physics, chemistry, and information science.
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The Interdisciplinary Centre brings together the diverse research initiatives at the Faculty of Humanities which deal with contemporary literature and culture. This research involves almost all faculty departments: German Studies, Romance Studies, Slavonic Studies, Islamic Studies, Sinology, and Theatre and Media Studies to name but a few.
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The ESI coordinates research, teaching and further education in the field of embedded systems at FAU. Furthermore, the ESI is also involved in promoting the university’s established expertise in the field of embedded systems design with industry and small and medium-sized companies. The ESI Application Centre constitutes an important building block in this field and is being set up in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IIS.
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The “Interdisciplinary Centre for Preventative Medicine in Ophthalmology and Imaging” was established to intensify and consolidate existing cooperation at FAU between the Medical and Technical Faculties in the field of preventative medicine. It aims to improve research conditions and present research results in such a way as to raise awareness.
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The institute’s research activities span the natural sciences and humanities. The collaborative disciplines within this institute focus their research on the subject of the evolutionary paradigm and are interested in researching educational issues in the broadest sense. The work of the institute can be grouped into two main foci: the question of human nature and understanding historical processes.
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The Erlangen Catalysis Resource Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre which brings together groups from the departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology, as well as from Chemical and Biological Engineering. The aim of the ECRC is to strengthen catalysis research in all its facets from fundamental research to process development.
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Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Editionswissenschaft
The establishment of this centre has provided the numerous textual projects at FAU with a new institutional framework which facilitates closer collaboration in terms of addressing fundamental questions in the field of publishing – not to mention the application of new technical processes.
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The neurosciences have become one of life science’s key disciplines in fundamental research and medicine. Intensive research efforts around the world have led to tremendous scientific advancements, and considerably improved the understanding of healthy and diseased nervous systems over the past few years. With the help of the IZN, FAU hopes to actively contribute to this development whilst continuing to raise its profile as an innovator in modern neuroscience.
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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency and Collocation aims to link and coordinate research carried out in different Departments of FAU. It focuses on the description and analysis of words in larger linguistic chunks such as multi-word lexical units or grammatical units. One focus lies on research in the field of lexicography, which has a long tradition at the University. This involves the historical development of dictionaries and lexicographical traditions in particular languages, the comparison of the lexicographical scenes of different countries as well as the description and analysis of different types of dictionaries and current developments including electronic dictionaries.
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The Interdisciplinary center for "Interface-controlled processes" at the University of Erlangen is a joint collaboration of research groups from physics, chemistry and material science, who focus on fundamental material properties, which can be manipulated via the interface between different materials. The Center focuses on three main topics: 1. Preparation of interface-modified geometric structures (concerns mainly structural properties), 2. Structure-property relationship in interface-modified structures and applications (electronic, optical properties, theoretical descriptions), 3. Interfaces of particulate systems and interface-stabilized nanoparticles
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The prime goal of ECROPS is to focus and sustainably support teaching and research in the field of plant science at FAU. ECROPS aims to create a leading and internationally visible center for plant sciences on the university level. Central reasearch topics of ECROPS are the molecular and evolutionary studies of complex metabolic processes and their developmental and environmental regulation. The application of genomic and post-genomic technologies will allow a systems-oriented approach. This approach will attract other fields of research and will allow inter-disciplinary links and larger research networks within and beyond FAU.
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The Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), established in 2007, is a platform for interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of Molecular Materials and Nanotechnology. Currently, 20 groups from the Chemistry and Physics Departments are involved in the ICMM. The participating scientists possess very strong research expertise in molecular electronics, functional carbon-rich molecular architectures, redox-active metal complexes, light-energy conversion, electron transfer in molecular and supramolecular materials, molecular magnetism, molecules on surfaces, inorganic nanostructures and biomimetic materials.
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The Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) analyzes labor markets and the world of work from various perspectives, in particular economics, sociology, psychology, management, and law. Within a framework of four research areas, LASER focuses on internationally competitive research activities using an inter-disciplinary approach. In addition, LASER offers policy advice on work-related issues and provides information to the general public.
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The intention of the Emil Fischer Center is to focus, to crosslink and to force the scientific work on bioactive molecules, target proteins and bioanalytics. The main topics are the identification and modeling of target proteins, ligand-protein interactions and the role of target proteins in signaling. Furthermore, the Emil Fischer Center coordinates the interdisciplinary education of students and the training of postgraduates within the fields of pharmacy, food chemistry and molecular medicine.
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Scientists of MICE investigate the development, mechanisms and processes of the immune system and immunological disorders and the translation of the results obtained into novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
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The ECI is an official interdisciplinary center of the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). It represents a consortium of institutions and researchers with a broad spectrum of scientific expertise, ranging from (bio)inorganic, medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, basic infection biology, microbiology, virology, immunology and pathology to clinical infectious diseases. The ECI provides a strong link between basic, preclinical and clinical research. Its main goal is the acceleration of the transition from in vitro and in vivo research results into clinical application.
