Highlights from the area of science
The Nuremberg metropolitan region offers a broad spectrum of outstanding universities and research institutions.
57,000 students are enrolled in the core region and 90,000 in the metropolitan network, at four universities, ten universities of applied science, the academy of fine arts and the academies of music in Nuremberg-Augsburg and Würzburg.
At the Fraunhofer Institutes for Integrated Circuits, Silicate Research and X-ray Technology research is carried on daily at an astonishing tempo. And in the Max-Planck research groups, dedicated to the fields of optics, information science or photonics, the situation is very much the same.
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And there are other highlights as well, in addition to the outstanding universities and research institutions:
Internationalisation
The universities are partners of several hundred universities in other countries. Many institutions are concerned with topics of international interest - from international economic relationships, through European studies, to research and cooperation centres in China and Korea.
Technological core competences and interdisciplinary technologies, with functioning organisational structures and associated research institutions
Competence fields/clusters are medicine and health, information and communication, energy and environment, transport and logistics, new materials, and automation and production technology. Important interdisciplinary technologies include mechatronics, power electronics, optics, lasers and photonics, nanotechnology, biotechnology and biomedicine.
High regional development potential thanks to outstanding educational opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers
Around 9,000 university graduates and 1,500 doctoral students complete their university studies every year. The region can boast of Germany's highest engineering density and a high rate of patents.
Spin-offs from universities
Companies impressively demonstrate their business success relative to the competition.
Scientific honours
The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has award winners of the Leibniz Science Prize, the German Future Prize, and the Körber Prize in its ranks.
Events
The largest popular science event, the Long Night of the Sciences. never ceases to arouse the interest of thousands of visitors from the metropolitan region in science and research.