{"id":41504,"date":"2024-07-31T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.academy.fau.de\/?page_id=41504"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:10:54","slug":"fau-academy-leitbild","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.academy.fau.de\/en\/fau-academy\/fau-academy-leitbild\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The FAU Academy is the continuing education platform of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Alongside research and teaching, academic continuing education in the broader sense is the third core mission of the university. No one is fully &#8220;educated&#8221; today. When knowledge becomes obsolete faster than ever before, when new technologies and digitalization are changing our working and professional world in all areas, and when new challenges require a constant process of adaptation, lifelong learning is the key to individual, entrepreneurial, and societal future viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>With lifelong learning&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Under the motto &#8220;creating value through lifelong learning,&#8221; FAU focuses on the continuous transfer of knowledge between science and practice \u2013 in both directions. As one of Germany&#8217;s most research-intensive and innovative universities, FAU embraces the challenge of bringing new ideas into the world \u2013 also through continuing education for all phases of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>&#8230;we create value<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Academic continuing education contributes to personal, entrepreneurial, and societal development, creating diverse values ranging from personal education and skills acquisition in a professional context to personnel development, knowledge transfer in companies and society, and enhancing innovation capacity. Thus, continuing education at FAU is a key to strengthening Germany&#8217;s innovation capacity and future viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>&#8230;with excellent quality in continuing education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">FAU forms a unique cooperative ecosystem for academic and personal continuing education as well as knowledge transfer with its five research-strong faculties. Its cross-faculty research focuses and immediate proximity not only to market-leading companies but also to key research societies and a global network of top universities demonstrate our excellence driven by passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Take advantage and enrich it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The offerings are open to all interested individuals regardless of gender, national\/ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual identity.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAU Academy is the continuing education platform of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Alongside research and teaching, academic continuing education in the broader sense is the third core mission of the university. No one is fully &#8220;educated&#8221; today. 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