Human Rights Day – Voices from the FAU CHREN Community
For International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2025, the FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) invited students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to share their personal reflections on human rights.
The campaign focused on these guiding questions:
- Why do human rights matter?
- What inspired you to study or research human rights?
- What makes researching/studying human rights at FAU unique?
The contributions reflect the diversity of human rights research at FAU and offer insights into the personal perspectives, academic motivations, and individual sources of inspiration of our students and researchers.
Research, Study and Teaching in the Field of Human Rights
At FAU, there are various opportunities for students, doctoral candidates and postdocs to study and conduct research on human rights:
Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights”
This research initiative aims to describe, analyze, and assess how five megatrends, namely autocratization, fragmented economic globalization, international migration, planetary environmental crises, and digitalization, are transforming human rights, and how in turn human rights can and should transform responses to the megatrends.
Further information about the Cluster of Excellence can be found here.
International Doctorate Programme Business and Human Rights (IDP BHR)
Funded by Elite Network of Bavaria the programme „Business and Human Rights: Governance Challenges in a Complex World“ establishes an inter- and transdisciplinary research forum for excellent doctoral projects addressing practically relevant problems and theoretically grounded questions in the field of business and human rights.
All information about the IDP BHR can be found here.
Master’s Programme in Human Rights
The M.A. Human Rights is an interdisciplinary and international postgraduate degree programme offered at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). It addresses human rights in all areas of society and academia. The course programme covers fundamental challenges as well as current issues. It pursues an interdisciplinary approach by taking the political, philosophical and legal dimensions of human rights into account.
All information about the M.A. Human Rights can be found here.
Campaign Schedule
The campaign will launch on our social media channels on 10 December 2025 with an introductory post; afterwards, one new contribution will be published each week. You can support the campaign by following, liking and sharing:
Human Rights Day – Voices from the FAU CHREN Community
For International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2025, the FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) invited students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to share their personal reflections on human rights.
The campaign focused on these guiding questions:
The contributions reflect the diversity of human rights research at FAU and offer insights into the personal perspectives, academic motivations, and individual sources of inspiration of our students and researchers.
Research, Study and Teaching in the Field of Human Rights
At FAU, there are various opportunities for students, doctoral candidates and postdocs to study and conduct research on human rights:
Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights”
This research initiative aims to describe, analyze, and assess how five megatrends, namely autocratization, fragmented economic globalization, international migration, planetary environmental crises, and digitalization, are transforming human rights, and how in turn human rights can and should transform responses to the megatrends.
Further information about the Cluster of Excellence can be found here.
International Doctorate Programme Business and Human Rights (IDP BHR)
Funded by Elite Network of Bavaria the programme „Business and Human Rights: Governance Challenges in a Complex World“ establishes an inter- and transdisciplinary research forum for excellent doctoral projects addressing practically relevant problems and theoretically grounded questions in the field of business and human rights.
All information about the IDP BHR can be found here.
Master’s Programme in Human Rights
The M.A. Human Rights is an interdisciplinary and international postgraduate degree programme offered at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). It addresses human rights in all areas of society and academia. The course programme covers fundamental challenges as well as current issues. It pursues an interdisciplinary approach by taking the political, philosophical and legal dimensions of human rights into account.
All information about the M.A. Human Rights can be found here.
Campaign Schedule
The campaign will launch on our social media channels on 10 December 2025 with an introductory post; afterwards, one new contribution will be published each week. You can support the campaign by following, liking and sharing: