For more than 260 years,

the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

has guaranteed outstanding research and teaching.

A unique interdisciplinary spectrum of courses has emerged

thanks to lively interaction between faculties and subjects.

Established structures and the most contemporary of requirements

have made it one of the biggest German universities.

The university is closely linked in a variety of ways

to the scientific world and the economy

and works intensively with renowned research institutions

and numerous world-class businesses.

This means that sports scientists from Erlangen

are working with the German Aerospace Center

to research movement in zero gravity,

with a view to developing training programs for astronauts

in the biggest research Airbus in the world, for example.

The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

evolved from a Max Planck research group at the university in 2009.

The institute develops and researches technologies

for micro- and nano-structuring of optical materials.

This is a new kind of fiber,

and we do a lot of physics with it,

fundamental and applied physics,

working in that field that is really,

at the moment, really growing a lot.

And it's also an international group here,

which I really like. This is very exciting.

The findings of Erlangen Research

can no longer be dissociated from our everyday lives.

Take the MP3 data format, for example,

which was developed in cooperation between the university

and the Fraunhofer Institute

before going on to take the world by storm.

That was a very exciting development,

because at the start of the process we still had no support.

Then the Internet made it possible to provide access

to the process throughout the world,

meaning that everyone could try out the MP3 data format.

And from then on in, people were hugely enthusiastic.

Today everyone wants it.

We haven't stood still with MP3s.

Advanced audio coding, AAC,

which is used in every single iPod today,

exemplifies this.

In the field of audio technology

and audio coding in particular,

interdisciplinary cooperation is very important,

as is combining theory and experimental research outcomes.

Research in Erlangen is excellent.

That's why engineers and scientists